The Vermont Agency of Education confirmed this week that a teacher at the Green Mountain Valley School in Fayston agreed to have his license suspended for one year, following an incident that occurred more than a year ago.
Robert Niles, 27, a former teacher at the school, voluntarily agreed to give up his provisional teaching license for English, grades 7-12, the agency’s spokeswoman, Jill Remick, confirmed.
His license was suspended at the end of April, the record shows.
The report on the suspension says that while Niles was working at the school as a teacher on June 2, 2014, he “permitted a female student to enter his cabin at night during a whitewater rafting trip, attired only in his boxer shorts.”
“When confronted by school officials, (Niles) denied that the student was in the cabin, but a later search revealed the student hiding in the licensee’s bathroom,” the report says.
Niles later admitted “to allowing the student on his bed in the room,” the report says.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Former Green Mountain Valley School teacher loses license for a year.