Juno News - May 27, 2026


B.C. teacher told class to ＂murder＂ those infected with hantavirus

Topics
murdering infected students
Mentioned
Jennifer Fink Scott Jackson June O'Neill Hansa
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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

182.61

Word count

336

Sentence count

11

Harmful content

Toxicity

5

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A BC middle school teacher allegedly told students that they should murder people infected with a virus during a classroom discussion. And the school principal admitted the comments were highly inappropriate. According to an audio recording and transcript obtained by Juno News, the incident happened during a Grade 8 social studies class at Ladysmith Secondary School in British Columbia.

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00:00:00.000 A BC middle school teacher allegedly told students that they should, quote, 0.95
00:00:04.380 murder people infected with a virus during a classroom discussion,
00:00:08.220 and the school principal admitted the comments were highly inappropriate.
00:00:11.260 Here's what happened.
00:00:12.600 According to an audio recording and transcript obtained by Juno News,
00:00:16.680 the incident happened during a grade 8 social studies class
00:00:20.080 at Ladysmith Secondary School in British Columbia.
00:00:23.100 The class was discussing Hansa virus at the time when a student asked, 0.97
00:00:26.620 quote, so what you're saying is that they should basically shoot all the people that got it.
00:00:32.360 Now the teacher responded, quote, that's exactly what I'm saying. 1.00
00:00:35.820 Round them up and murder all of them because they don't deserve life. 0.99
00:00:38.960 The parents of a student from the teacher's class, Jennifer Fink, 1.00
00:00:42.980 complained with the school, with district officials.
00:00:46.100 And now June O'Neill has also obtained audio of the meeting with Principal Scott Jackson,
00:00:50.760 who acknowledged the comments were, quote, highly inappropriate.
00:00:54.280 but he also argued that he believed the teacher was being sarcastic and responded to what he called
00:01:00.520 quote ridiculous nature of the students questions now this is not the first time that these parents
00:01:06.020 raised additional concerns about the same teacher's classroom behavior they previously complained
00:01:10.560 about fink's cell phone policy alleging students were made to be pat down uh have their pockets
00:01:16.760 checked and their t-shirts lifted to prove that they weren't carrying any phones and they said
00:01:22.000 was later singled out in front of the class after being allowed to keep a restricted use cell phone
00:01:27.940 for family contact purposes. The parents told Juno News that they still don't feel that the
00:01:32.420 matter has been resolved and they believe that other parents deserve to know quote what their
00:01:37.140 children are being taught and the environment that they're in. So the school told Juno News
00:01:41.680 that they're not able to comment on HR matters but if you want to listen to the whole audio
00:01:47.360 and judge for yourself please go check that out on Juno News.