Teacher mislead both colleagues and students with elaborate cancer death claim
dailyrecord.co.ukA primary school teacher got caught up in a web of lies when she told both her colleagues and students in an assembly that a loved one was dying of cancer.Lauren Green worked as a class teacher and an investigation found that, for years, she accepted gifts, hampers and large donations of cash raised by charity fundraisers held at the school.
Ms Green, who worked as a teacher at St Barnabas C of E School in Warrington, later lied that her loved one had passed away from the fictional cancer diagnosis and went into astonishing detail of how she held their hand as they died.
In a professional conduct meeting held on April 20, The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) found that the deceit began when she told the school that the loved one needed to have a scan for suspected cancer in January 2016, Cheshire Live reports.The next again month, Ms Green told the school and her colleagues that the scan had came back positive and that they needed to begin a course of treatment.The panel also heard how she had told the primary school pupils in an assembly about her loved one's illness while informing the children about a Race For Life fundraiser she was organising.Between 2017 and 2020, the teacher took 169.5 days of absence due to the 'stress' and 'depression' caused by the bogus terminal illness.
She also spoke about it at length with colleagues and accepted donations of food, money and gifts, which had been provided out of the good will of her colleagues.Ms Green worked at the Warrington school as a class teacher from April 2015 and the report states that she admitted to the series of allegations made against her.
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