A B.C. teacher will not be recertified for at least eight years after connecting with a student on the Grindr dating app and engaging in "sexualized physical contact" with them, says t he B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation.

According to a consent agreement posted online on Tuesday, Adam Richard Macdonald was a teacher at an unnamed B.C. school district when he met a student in January 2016 while on a two-day field trip.

The student, who was not named in the agreement and referred to as "Student A," is a member of a local Indigenous community and was in Grade 11 when on the field trip.

Around five months later, the student and Macdonald connected on Grindr — with the 17-year-old student claiming to be 18 in order to access the app, the commissioner found.

The student met Macdon

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