A former British Columbia secondary school teacher has been banned from the profession for 15 years after he admitted to having a sexual relationship with a former student. According to a notice published Tuesday by the province’s teacher regulator, former teacher Jonas Alexander Douglas Huston became intimately involved with a former student at his private school soon after the student graduated. “Huston was aware that the former student was vulnerable,” reads a summary of a consent resolution agreement signed by both the teacher and the commissioner for teacher regulation. “Huston maintained close contact with the student after graduation,” the summary says. “The sexual relationship started within five months of the student graduating.” The relationship came to the attention of the regulator after a report was filed by a fellow teaching certificate holder on Jan. 17, 2025. According to the summary, the report was filed under section 38 of the B.C. Teachers Act, which outlines a teacher’s duty to report misconduct involving potential physical, emotional or sexual harm to a student. At the time of the report, however, Huston was no longer working as a teacher. His teaching certificate, which was first issued in 2004, was cancelled on Nov. 1, 2025, due to non-payment of fees, the summary says. Huston entered into the consent resolution agreement with the regulator on May 26, admitting his behaviour constituted professional misconduct, according to the notice. As part of the agreement, Huston is barred from teaching in B.C.’s kindergarten-to-Grade 12 education system for 15 years. The teacher commissioner concluded the penalty was appropriate after determining Huston “breached his position and power and trust as a teacher to engage in an intimate and sexual relationship with the student,” according to the summary. “Huston was aware that the student was vulnerable to Huston’s advances because of the personal relationship that Huston had fostered with the student,” the decision continued, saying the teacher’s conduct “had the effect of abusing or exploiting the student, who suffered harm as a result.” Under the terms of the agreement, Huston also agreed not to make any statements that question or contradict the terms of the agreement or the admissions made within it.
