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Former Sudbury Catholic board teacher’s license revoked for ‘sexually abusive conduct’

Craig James Lusk one of 28 teachers across the province whose licenses have been removed retroactively by Ontario College of Teachers
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A former Sudbury Catholic District School Board teacher is one of 28 Ontario teachers whose licenses were revoked following a retroactive look by the Ontario College of Teachers through hundreds of discipline cases.

The Toronto Star reports that these discipline cases involved everything from sexually charged text messages to viewing child pornography to touching female students in gym class.

The report said that in years gone by, these resulted in a suspension by Ontario’s teacher regulator and that they take boundary counselling, or the teacher being transferred to another school.

But the Ontario College of Teachers revoked the licenses of 28 members in December following a new Ontario law mandating that any educator disciplined for sexually abusive conduct or child pornography receive a lifetime ban from teaching.

The Toronto Star article published information on each of the cases, drawn from the Ontario College of Teachers discipline decisions.

One of the teachers whose license has now been revoked is Craig James Lusk, a Sudbury Catholic District School Board teacher who was suspended in 2017 for what the college described as “sexually abusive conduct.”

According to the Ontario College of Teachers, as of 2020, Lusk was no longer a practising teacher.

The discipline panel that made the finding said Lusk “repeatedly rubbed a student’s upper thigh on the back of her leg above her knee” over a period of a year and a half. 

The panel said Lusk singled the student out from among her peers and repeatedly “lashed” out at her. 

Information about Lusk’s case in the June 2018 edition of Professionally Speaking, a magazine put out by the Ontario College of Teachers, said he was found guilty of professional misconduct and ordered that his teaching certificate be suspended for six months.

He was directed to appear before the panel to receive a reprimand. It also ordered him to successfully complete, at his own expense, a course on appropriate boundaries and boundary violation issues, and a course regarding professional ethics.

He would have needed to appear before the panel to receive the reprimand and complete the courses prior to starting or resuming a teaching position for which a Certificate of Qualification and Registration is required.


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