Teacher Invents Three Dead Lovers To Skip School
DAVID Flinn, a maths teacher at Hartlepool’s Manor College of Technology, wagged school by telling his class that his girlfriend had died for Aids. And the other one died in a car crash. And the other one just, like, died in America.
In all, three of Mr Flin’’s lovers died.
The General Teaching Council misconduct panel, Birmingham chapter, found Mr Flinn had made up the funerals. The note from his mum was a forgery.
Mr Flinn once arrived for class with walking stick, claiming to have been struck by a car.
Flinn arrived with his arm bandaged, havign been, er, given an implant to control his adrenalin levels.
Says the college’s deputy headteacher, Martin Robson:
“There was a suspicion that something wasn’t right, but we continued to support him. He engaged in systematic and wilful deceit over a long period of time.”
His girl was not present…
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March 17th, 2009 at 10:18 am
One of our history teachers told us he had been killed flying Wellington Bombers over Berlin in 1944. He couldn’t fool us though. We knew that Wellington Bombers had been phased out of long distance ops by Bomber Command by ‘44 and most of the remainder were on Coastal Command duties. Teaching children to lie effectively is probably more use these days than history. No one likes a poor liar but a good one can brighten up the day. I was reminded of that when I was a mercenary fighting the Kmer Rouge in Cambodia back in ‘71.