BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada – British Columbia education officials suspended the teaching certificate of a welding instructor after he put a sticker on a student that said “I’m Gay, LOL” as a prank.

Daniel Ogloff

Aldergrove Community Secondary School metalwork teacher Daniel Mark Ogloff is now serving his second suspension for putting the masking tape sticker on a Grade 11 student last September, CBC reports.

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He was initially suspended without pay by the school district for 10 weeks starting in November 2013 after the incident on Sept. 24 the same year. When he returned to the classroom, he talked with the student he pranked, and took mandatory classes to learn his lesson, but the B.C. Commissioner of Teacher Regulation still decided suspended his teaching certificate for two weeks, from Sept. 22 to Oct. 5 of this year, according to the news site.

“Mr. Ogloff, just as a joke, came up and stuck a sticker on him that said, ‘I’m gay, LOL.’ We didn’t think anything of it. No one did because we always mess around with the teacher and he messes back. He’s friendly,” Grade 10 student Cameron Snow, who is in the metalwork class, told CBC.

The student “took it to offence, walked out of the room, told the principal … and then the next day we came to school and Mr. Ogloff wasn’t there.”

Ogloff apparently didn’t tell the student about the sticker, and his classmates laughed at him and took pictures of the sign before he realized what was going on.

The suspension decision from the B.C. Commissioner of Teacher Regulation contends Ogloff acted “unprofessionally, disrespectfully and without regard for students’ physical and emotional safety,” according to the news site.

Ogloff was also previously disciplined in December 2012 for speaking inappropriately to a Grade 12 student in response to her inquiry about why she was failing his class.

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“He responded loudly and in front of her classmates, ‘You are never here and you never do anything in class,’” CBC reports.

Ogloff is currently teaching in the neighboring Alberta province while his suspension runs its course in British Columbia. School officials in Alberta told CBC they were unaware of his issues in British Columbia until last week, but haven’t had any issues with the teacher.

David Steele, superintendent of Ogloff’s new employer – the Grasslands School Division, said the teacher has been a positive influence since he arrived, and the district doesn’t plan on taking action over the incident in British Columbia.

Gay rights advocates, of course, are up in arms about Ogloff’s prank.

“This is just affirmation that, despite all of the progress that we’ve made and all the legal equalities we’ve achieved, that the day-to-day lived equalities are still not there,” Dara Parker, executive director of QMunity, told CBC.

“In this day and age, with all of the conversation regarding gay and lesbian issues in school, and with the transgender issue being forefront, it surprises me there’s not a sensitivity,” Out in Surrey founder Martin Rooney said.

Meanwhile, Ogloff’s students at Aldergrove simply want their teacher back.

“I learned all of my welding skills from him,” Snow said. “I’m pretty good at it now. I’m already starting to get a job somewhere from welding.”