B.C. high school teacher gets 15-year ban for proposing sex with recent grads

A B.C. high school teacher has received a 15-year ban after exchanging sexually explicit messages and photos and making propositions of sex to recently graduated students.

Neil Stewart Holmes was reported to the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation about the inappropriate behaviour by the Nanaimo Ladysmith school district on Feb. 26, 2021.

The district learned that a student graduated from the school — which was not identified in the consent resolution agreement posted online Tuesday — in June 2014. The student was not in Holmes’s class, but knew him as a teacher on call.

According to the signed agreement, Holmes contacted the first student on Facebook shortly after graduation, and the two started using its Messenger texting service to exchange messages and photos of a sexual nature.

“At one point, Holmes sent (the student) a photograph of his classroom, indicating that this was a place where he would like to have sex with” the student.