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A BC teacher’s certificate has been cancelled after he was found guilty of sexual assault.
Khaled Hanafi Dardir, who was a middle school teacher, was charged with one count of sexual assault and two counts of assault in July 2021.
According to the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, he had previously been disciplined by his school district, in Abbotsford, for “harassment and sexual harassment of a colleague.”
He was suspended for three days without pay for that misconduct in June 2020.
In April of 2023, he pled guilty to the three criminal charges, which the Commissioner said were committed against an intimate partner.
He was not jailed, however, but instead handed a conditional discharge.
In January 2024, the court put Dardir on probation for 24 months, alongside various prohibitions.
With the legal matter settled, the Commissioner then considered the case from a professional point of view.
It determined that Dardir’s teaching certificate should be cancelled since his behaviour “constitutes conduct unbecoming.”
In its report on the matter, released this week, the Commissioner explained that the cancellation was “an appropriate consequence” because Dardir’s offences “are of a nature that undermines the confidence of the public in the profession and in the education system.”