A B.C. teacher has been suspended from the profession for at least eight years after starting a relationship with a high school student over the Grindr dating app.

Adam Richard Macdonald was teaching at a different school than the student in January 2016 when the two met during a two-day field trip involving multiple schools.

The two interacted during the field trip but Macdonald didn’t know at the time that the student, 17 at the time, attended school in the same district. They stopped communicating for a few months, but connected on Grindr in June 2016 — when the student was still 17 but claimed to be 18 to access the adult-oriented app.

During the 2016-17 school year, when the student was in Grade 12, the two reconnected on Grindr, corresponding weekly.

The two soon realized they ha

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