A BC principal has been disciplined for reportedly changing a student’s final grade without considering their performance in the class.
The BC teacher regulator has handed a two-day suspension to Roger DesLauriers for the grade change, which happened in May 2024.
DesLauriers was ordered to complete a course on professional ethics, which he finished in fall 2024.
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A summer of a consent resolution agreement posted online on Tuesday said DesLauriers was teaching at a catholic independent high school in Vancouver at the time of the incident.
According to the summary, DesLauriers changed the student’s grade “arbitrarily and preferentially” from 56% to 76% without the participation of the subject teacher, who asked not to be part of the process.
DesLauriers “did not investigate or consider the student’s overall academic performance in relation to the learning outcomes for the subject class in determining the extent of the grade change,” the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation said.
In the consent resolution agreement, DesLauriers admitted that this constituted professional misconduct.
The regulator said DesLauriers’ actions raised concerns about his ethics, professionalism and integrity. His actions also showed he “treated students inequitably.”
However, the regulator said this was a single incident, was not a pattern and that DesLauriers accepted responsibility for his actions.
