Teacher made assistants forge missing maths work

Janet Young had taught at the school since 2016

A teacher asked two classroom assistants to forge crucial maths coursework for four pupils, a disciplinary panel has heard.

Janet Young, who taught at Ellesmere College in Leicester, said she had been in "panic mode" in April 2023 when she realised four students had not finished work which needed to be completed under assessment conditions.

She brought the teaching profession into disrepute by asking for teaching assistants to complete the work, the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) ruled.

But the panel, which met earlier this month, felt her actions were not serious enough to warrant a classroom ban and her case being published was a sufficient punishment.

The TRA panel heard Mrs Young had no previous disciplinary matters and the incident was "out of character".

'This was wrong'

Mrs Young, who had taught at the school since 2016, had asked the two assistants to complete maths papers after finding it had not been done in time.

She said in a written submission to the panel: "I went into total panic mode as I did not have another session with this class."

She asked them to finish the work including completing unfinished graphs.

One of the assistants said: "She asked me to make the handwriting the same as the students and asked me to do it in pencil and not pen as that's what the students had used.

"That is when I knew this was wrong."

The school had investigated the allegations before holding a disciplinary hearing, with Mrs Young leaving the school in February 2024.

The four pupils were made to redo their coursework.

Mrs Young had told her disciplinary hearing "I understand what I allowed was wrong" and did not contest any of the TRA panel's findings.