Teacher suspended for using dead stepson's grades to get tuition credit
Jane Deacon, QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, September 11, 2014 09:23 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 11, 2014 09:47 AM EDT
VANCOUVER -- A B.C. teacher will be suspended after it was discovered she falsified her deceased stepson's documents to obtain a $750 tuition credit for her daughter.
According to B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation documents, Salmo Secondary School teacher Tamara Gay Huser applied for the tuition credit through the province's Passport to Education program. The passport program awards achievement stamps to students to use towards the cost of post-secondary education.
In September 2011, Huser took one of the program's empty passport booklets from her school's office without authorization and filled it with her daughter's information, the documents say. She then took the booklet apart and replaced pages with those from the booklet of her stepson, who passed away in 2010.
Huser received a $750 tuition credit for her daughter, which she paid back when the college discovered the documents had been falsified.
The school district terminated Huser in September 2012 -- a decision she appealed through the union. The commissioner considered the matter the following year and proposed a consent resolution agreement, which resulted in a two-month suspension to begin in October if the strike at B.C. public schools is over.
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Jane Deacon, QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, September 11, 2014 09:23 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 11, 2014 09:47 AM EDT
VANCOUVER -- A B.C. teacher will be suspended after it was discovered she falsified her deceased stepson's documents to obtain a $750 tuition credit for her daughter.
According to B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation documents, Salmo Secondary School teacher Tamara Gay Huser applied for the tuition credit through the province's Passport to Education program. The passport program awards achievement stamps to students to use towards the cost of post-secondary education.
In September 2011, Huser took one of the program's empty passport booklets from her school's office without authorization and filled it with her daughter's information, the documents say. She then took the booklet apart and replaced pages with those from the booklet of her stepson, who passed away in 2010.
Huser received a $750 tuition credit for her daughter, which she paid back when the college discovered the documents had been falsified.
The school district terminated Huser in September 2012 -- a decision she appealed through the union. The commissioner considered the matter the following year and proposed a consent resolution agreement, which resulted in a two-month suspension to begin in October if the strike at B.C. public schools is over.
jane.deacon@sunmedia.ca
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