The Discipline Committee ordered that the teaching certificate of Kathryn Elizabeth Bond be suspended for failing to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with students, failing to adequately supervise students, and undermining colleagues and school administration. Her misconduct occurred at school and through electronic communications with students, including messages on social media.
During the time in question, Bond was employed as a teacher and coach by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
Bond, who was certified to teach in June 2017, did not attend the hearing on October 29, 2025, but had legal representation.
Bond’s misconduct included:
- Driving students in her personal vehicle multiple times without authorization, including driving a student alone on one occasion.
- Communicating with students through social media and text messages about personal matters and maintaining a group chat with students.
- Posting a photograph on Instagram of students without their shirts on without the consent of all the students shown.
- Using profanity when speaking with students.
- Providing select students with access to a private office space in the school without supervision and permitting them to treat it as a lounge.
- Undermining colleagues and school administration by telling students she disagreed with the consequences being imposed on them and that she was on “their side.”
The Discipline Committee panel found Bond guilty of professional misconduct and ordered that her Certificate of Qualification and Registration be suspended for three months. She was also directed to receive a reprimand. In addition, she was required to complete a course on maintaining professional boundaries, ethics and appropriate communication with students.
In their written decision, the panel stated that “[m]embers of the profession are expected to provide students with a safe learning environment by adequately supervising students” and that school staff “should behave as a unified front and should never undermine each other in front of students.”
