COLUMBUS — A former Boardman Local Schools teacher has lost his license following an investigation by the state board of education into treatment of and remarks to students.

Corey Yoakam, a former intervention specialist at Boardman Middle School and current South Range Local Schools board president, was denied application of a five-year professional intervention specialist teaching license and five-year principal license.

His four-year resident educator intervention specialist teaching license, issued in 2014, was revoked; and his four-year pupil activity permit issued in 2016 was revoked.

Yoakam is “ineligible to reapply for any license, permit, or certificate” until June 9, 2020. Then he must submit written proof he has completed eight hours of ethics training, eight hours of sexual harassment training, and eight hours of crisis prevention intervention training — all at his own cost — upon reapplication, a resolution from the state board states.

According to the resolution dated Dec. 11, Yoakam was notified on Oct. 17, 2018, by the state superintendent of public instruction after it was reported he engaged in “conduct that is unbecoming to the teaching profession.”

The state based its decision on a series of incidents during the 2015-16 school year. Due to allegations, he was placed on administrative leave in May 2016, and was assigned to a special- needs classroom for the 2016-17 school year with two other teachers.

Yoakam resigned from the district June 30, 2017.

Yoakam taught for about three years after the misconduct without incident, producing letters of support, a summary fact sheet states.

The document alleges that Yoakam made two students run and stand for extended periods of time; run up and down stairs and jump on a trampoline for punishment; on multiple occasions poured water on a student when the student was sleeping in class; squeezed the neck and shoulder area of a student, causing the student to fall to the ground, and often made “offensive, racial, and sexually charged comments to staff and student helpers in his class.”

The report states that specifically, Yoakam referred to a Pakistani student as “Slumdog Millionaire,” to which he admitted; and referred to another as “Chong,” also asking the student helper if they ate fried rice that day, which he testified he did not remember doing so.

Yoakam is also reported to have told a female student helper she would become “a pole dancer.” A witness later testified that Yoakam meant the student wouldn’t want to become a pole dancer.

The document referred to a former student as “the Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “the mongoloid-looking one.” Yoakam testified he did not remember the latter.

He is also to have asked another teacher to tell a female student the shirt she was wearing, with cats on it, was “distracting” because the eyes of the cat were on the student’s chest — which Yoakam testified he reported to the school assistant principal.

The document states Yoakam text messaged a coworker, attempting to influence an interview with children services, which he denied.

During cross examination, a witness testified that Yoakam “engaged with his students,” “involved them in school” and “related very well with the parents.”