Julie Ireton
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251 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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Walker didn't want the public to hear this statement or anything else about the case. He asked for the hearing to be held behind closed doors. But the regulator said it was in the public interest to remain open.
I asked the Ontario College of Teachers for any documents relating to this case. The staff sent me a file. It includes Walker's CV, his resignation letter, and a certificate of recognition. This last document surprised me. It awards Walker for quote, dedication, commitment, and professionalism in the service of teaching.
And this certificate was sent to him while the college was looking into his alleged sexual abuse of a student. I'm guessing this award was the result of a bureaucratic oversight. The college also sent along four character references for Doug Walker. A fellow teacher wrote... Another friend wrote, quote,
But to bring it to light 20 years after the fact and to cost Doug his teaching career seems overly punitive, unquote. The assertion that it was an affair is particularly galling to Jeannie, but then that's likely how it was described to these friends. On February 13, 2001, the Ontario College of Teachers found William Douglas Walker guilty of professional misconduct.
Walker was verbally reprimanded and fined $2,000. He was never to teach again in any jurisdiction. The decision says he bought alcohol for and showed pornography to four students. But there was no mention of any other victims of sexual abuse. I recently discovered the college had tried to contact other victims from her school.
All the names of students, including Jeannie's, are blacked out in official documents, and no names were published in media reports. The headline in the Toronto Star read, The article notes during his 25-year career, Walker was given an award for excellence in teaching. The reporter wrote, quote, during his testimony, he quietly sobbed when he talked about his achievements, unquote.
Walker told the panel he realized what he had done was wrong and he had a need to be their friend, not just their teacher. He explained he'd received informal counseling through his family doctor and a prayer group. Walker said, quote, it's been an honor to be a teacher and except for this blip, I think I did a good job. I'm sorry to have let the profession down, unquote.
Not abuse, not an affair, a blip.
We are your shame. The Ontario College of Teachers posted a 10-page decision on its website. That's the document Anne-Marie found when she googled her teacher's name decades after she quit school. there was a black rectangle where Jeannie's name should have been.
Just 10 days after the teacher was found guilty of professional misconduct, he went on a trip to Europe. It's captured on YouTube. a traveling choir called Men of Note. All men, all adults. Walker was its director between 1999 and 2005. This particular trip took the singers to France, Belgium and the UK. On the last night, Walker gave a speech.
It's captured on a grainy video, probably on a handycam. When he
He gets emotional, has to stop for a few breaths. Walker was 52 at the time. He's wearing a taupe-coloured suit. He still has a bushy moustache.
He's speaking to the men in the choir and their wives. Walker has declined my request for an interview, but he acknowledges what he calls consensual relationships with both Anne-Marie and Jeannie.
It's a good reminder he's a real person with friends and family.
The crowd gives him, their leader, a standing ovation as he wraps up. And he was crying and the audience was clapping.
I mean, I'm not saying he shouldn't have another life. To Anne-Marie, Jeannie's determination to get him out of teaching was nothing short of heroic.
And likewise, I love the way you said that. The two women who were strangers just a short time ago are now like sisters. and this family is going to grow. Together, Jeannie and Anne-Marie plan to reach out to others.
Mm-hmm. That punch story is something Anne-Marie wants to hear too.
Next time on The Band Teacher. Another former student documented what went on with the music teacher.
This gets bigger than either Anne-Marie or Jeannie ever imagined.
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