Vancouver teacher loses certificate for one day after incident involving underage drinking
Posted May 5, 2026 11:01 pm.
Last Updated May 6, 2026 4:45 pm.
A teacher in Vancouver has been reprimanded after an incident involving underage drinking.
The BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation (BCCTR) says that two Grade 12 students showed up at the teacher’s house on June 9, 2023, with a bottle of vodka and asked her to participate in a “challenge.”
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO 1130 NEWSRADIO VANCOUVER LIVE!“One of the tasks was to take a shot of alcohol with one of their teachers,” the commissioner’s report said.
“At least one of the students drank a shot of vodka in [the teacher’s] presence. At the same time, Sheppet consumed a shot of a clear liquid. The students were on Facetime with another grade twelve student while the shots were consumed.”
It is not specified what the clear liquid that the teacher consumed was.
According to the report, even though the teacher suspected that the underage students were already drunk when they arrived at her house, she did not make any attempts to contact the students’ parents or police.
The teacher, Jacqueline Sheppet, was suspended for one day for failing to “role model appropriate behaviour or provide for the safety of students.”
This marks the teacher’s second suspension, as she had been punished with five days of suspension due to another incident in 2023.
In April and June of that year, Sheppet caused two other students to start crying after they asked to either leave class early or reschedule an exam.
In addition to the suspension, she will also complete a course at the Justice Institute of British Columbia.
Editor’s note: a previous version of this story had not clarified that it was not specified what the clear liquid that the teacher consumed was.
