It is not unheard that people call sick or come up with excuses not to go to work when they don’t feel like working.
But this teacher has taken it really far when he lied the school council that he can not make it to work because he ran over and killed a little girl with his car.
42-year-old teacher Derek McGlone was well known at Calderhead High School in Scotland for making up stories to get out of work, the Telegraph reports. At an August 1 hearing of the General Teaching Council Scotland(GTCS), McGlone admitted to lying on a number of occasions between June 2008 and May 2011.
In his most egregious fabrication, the music teacher told school officials that he had just run over a little girl with his car, according to UPI.
“He said he felt his car wheels running over her body,” Calderhead High School head Joyce Kilmartin wrote in an official statement.
On another occasion, McGlone called from his home in Glasgow, claiming he was stuck in a volcanic ash cloud in Iceland.
Well Derek might not owned his lies but he got pretty upset when his co workers had made statements about his conduct to the GTCS in April 2011. He basically went mad over Facebook. Calling them “bitches” and said that he would “hunt them down”.
Representing himself, McGlone described himself as a “respected” head of music, art and design at the school when he made false statements about his absence between June, 9 2008 and May, 31 2011.
“I can give no reasonable explanation for my actions,” he told the Council, adding that he was “embarrassed and sorry.”
“I make no excuse for any of the three incidents – they are unforgivable, stupid and silly.
“Please believe me, I have had enough time to think about this.”
The hearing panel concluded that McGlone’s behavior “falls short the standards expected of a registered teacher.” He received a reprimand that will remain on his record for 12 months.
