Vancouver teacher suspended after tirade

A Vancouver high school teacher who delivered a profanity-laced tirade in the classroom was suspended for three days.

On April 3, Maple Fun Sun Low was teaching a Grade 12 English class in an unnamed school in the Vancouver school district when he noticed five female students playing cards before class started.

Believing the girls were still playing when he was handing out papers to the class, Low went off on one of the students in the class.

“Turn around so that you can listen. F--- this. You guys are f---ing bitches and you should go to a coffee shop if you want to play cards,” Low said, according to a consent resolution agreement from the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation.

He called the students disrespectful and rude, and said they would get nowhere in life and should leave his class.

When one of the students told Low she was “shook,” he replied: “You should be, f---ing bitches,” said the report.

On June 15, Low was suspended without pay for three days. He also agreed to complete a conflict management course by Sept. 1.

In a separate incident, a former Vancouver teacher was disciplined after acting inappropriately with a Grade 12 student at the school between January and March 2013.

Hsu Yang Cheng sent inappropriate texts to the student, told her he loved her, and wrote a note pretending to be her parent excusing her absence from the school. The 17-year-old girl was not Cheng’s student. Cheng also took the student shopping on two occasions.

Cheng was suspended with pay on April 11, 2013 and resigned in June.

A separate complaint against Cheng also detailed how he had shared previous student projects with students in a Grade 12 information technology class in 2013.