private Auckland boarding school<\/a>, also told the student that in Ancient Greek times, sexual intimacy between older males and younger males was considered normal.<\/p>\nArtus’ conduct was recently referred to the Teachers’ Disciplinary Tribunal, which convened in June this year to hear the case against him. Today, it published its ruling opting to cancel his teaching registration, though his licence lapsed in 2021.<\/p>\n
According to the summary of facts published in the ruling, Artus formed an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old student in 2000 when he was 36 and the housemaster for Armagh House.<\/p>\n
“I consider you like a boyfriend,” he said in an email to the student in 2000. “No matter how much, or how little, I want you in my life. I want to grow old knowing you. Knowing who you are and what you are doing.”<\/p>\n
He also travelled with the boy overseas, bought him gifts and discussed his personal life with him.<\/p>\n
The school was made aware of the relationship and investigated. Despite a sub-committee of the school’s board finding Artus had engaged in serious misconduct and recommended dismissing him, the full board opted to keep him employed as a person with a limited authority to teach (LAT).<\/p>\n
It also stripped him of his housemaster responsibilities and told him any further misconduct would lead to his instant dismissal.<\/p>\n
The matter was also referred to the Teachers’ Registration Board, which decided not to cancel his LAT after accepting his explanations for the comments he made and that he “pulled away from the friendship” when he realised he was “feeling inappropriate emotions of closeness and a certain dependence” on the student.<\/p>\n
However, that process did little to deter Artus, who went on to develop a close relationship with a Year 11 student at the school.<\/p>\n
Artus visited the student at work and would drive him home, holding hands in the car and communicating with him frequently outside of school hours. He also told the student he loved him and that in Ancient Greek times, sexual intimacy between older males and younger males was considered normal.<\/p>\n
The same year, Artus also moved into a flat with three former Dilworth students, aged between 18 and 20, where the student would visit him often. After a night of heavy drinking, Artus slept in the same bed as the student.<\/p>\n
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