A West Vancouver teacher has been reprimanded for taking his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day out on his elementary school students.
Nicholas William Kzanoski, a teacher at West Vancouver’s Irwin Park elementary, acknowledged professional misconduct that included yelling at his students, belittling them in an email and swearing in the school staff room in 2012.
According to a recent decision of the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation on Jan. 25, 2012, Kzanoski wrote an email to a behaviour support teacher complaining about his students and describing them as the “most undisciplined, unmotivated, socially unaware, low-functioning group I’ve ever taught.” He also described some of his students as “really lazy, clueless children.”
Two weeks later, Kzanoski yelled at his Grade 5 class during book presentations in class and during P.E.
The same day, Kzanoski found two students playing a game at lunch and, assuming they were fighting, marched them to the office and told the secretary to call their parents to pick them up, because he had, “had it” with them.
Kzanoski then went to the staff room where he yelled, threw books and said “I’ve had it with my f***ing class. . . . I am so f***ing fed up. I’m done.”
A couple of weeks later, Kzanoski took a year’s medical leave.
On June 18, 2012 the school district ordered Kzanoski to take courses in classroom management and anger management. The decision, in which Kzanoski acknowledges a reprimand for his actions, notes there have been no further problems since his return to work in 2013.
