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A former Calgary elementary school teacher received a hefty fine and faced the loss of her teaching certificate after a disciplinary committee found she had a sexual and emotional relationship with a 14-year-old boy.

On March 16, 2018, an Alberta Teachers’ Association conduct committee found the Grade 1 and music teacher guilty on five counts of misconduct during the 2011-12 school year at a Calgary public school.

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Due to a backlog by the association in releasing disciplinary decisions, the written decision was not provided to Postmedia until last month.

After hearing from the former student, his father, the student’s friend and several other witnesses at a hearing in Edmonton in January 2018, the committee found the teacher guilty of using marijuana with a student, allowing students to use illegal drugs in her presence, having sexual contact with a student, being in regular text and phone contact with the student and engaging in a relationship with the student outside of school.