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A former Vancouver College teacher and university football star has been reprimanded after threatening to sue a student.

According to the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, Dante Giorgio Bertuzzi Luciani was working at Vancouver College in January, when a Grade 11/12 student made a complaint to the commissioner “about the assessment method used by Luciani in the class.”

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“In early April 2019, after Luciani was advised of the complaint, he had an ‘adult-to-adult’ conversation with the student in which he told the student that the student had ‘gone too far’ and that if the complaint negatively impacted Luciani’s employment, he would take legal action against the student,” the commissioner’s report states.

Then, on April 5, Luciani called the student’s mother and told her that if the complaint affected him professionally, he would take legal action against the student.

“He also told the student’s mother that the student has wasted everyone’s time and that the student needed ‘to get everyone out of this pickle now.’ ”