A Coquitlam, British Columbia teacher is being punished by the regulatory body which oversees the teaching profession for playing a video with sex and suicide scenes to a class of Grade 2 and 3 students while marking assignments.
The incident occurred in June 2022 when French immersion teacher Amira Mounir Abraham played the short animated film called “Life Is Beautiful” while marking assignments in class.
One of the scenes in the video depicts a leg shot of a couple having sex in an elevator where suggestive audio and moans plays overtop.
Additionaly, another scene shows a man committing suicide by jumping off of a skyscraper and landing on the pavement in a pool of blood.
According to a resolution agreement with the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, Abraham “had not seen the film before and therefore did not know its content before showing it to the class.”
“The film is a nine-minute long, age-inappropriate film … containing scenes depicting sexual intercourse and suicide,” the agreement states.
Despite this, Abraham did not intervene to stop the film from finishing and let it run for its entire nearly nine minute duration while children watched on.
Abraham was ordered to comply with requirements which require teachers to behave in “a trustworthy, impartial, diligent and safe manner” and to “take responsibility for (students) physical and emotional safety.”
This is not the first time that Abraham was been reprimanded. In 2019 she was also cited for supervision issues while teaching a kindergarten to Grade 1 class.
Abraham is also being required to complete a professional development course and pass.
Canada saw widespread protests this month protesting sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum in schools.
Thousands turned up for One Million March for Children protests across Canada and one of the issues debated included inappropriate explicit material being taught in schools or made available in libraries.
