A first grade teacher in Florida fakes an illness to get time off work.  The teacher lied for an entire year about her and her father having a terminal illness and finally admitted her gross lies.

Ashley Barker fakes being terminally ill and finally admits the she lied about the whole thing to avoid work for a year. Not surprisingly, the school board is furious and saddened by the teacher's ugly attempts to get off work.

The teacher at Laurel Elementary School in Polk County, finally admitted lying to her bosses and telling them she and her father were dying of a terminal illness just so she could avoid going to work at the school.

Over the course of a year, she sent the school principal 120 letters regarding the illness that she and her father were supposedly suffering from. The school took her word and let the teacher have numerous days off and allowed her to leave early on some days.

The school board, who recently had their doubts, approached Ashley Baker about her illness. She cracked and admitted she hadn't been at the hospital or the doctor's office, but had been at home with nothing wrong with her.

Now that the school is seeking to terminate her employment, Barker has hired a lawyer and is fighting them. Her case is due to go to a formal hearing before a judge.

This is no the first time an employee has lied to their bosses about a fatal illness:

A Texas man faces more than 16 years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to bilk nearly $400,000 from his former Eagan employer, Advantage Transportation.

Clayton "Craig" Hogeland, 43, also obstructed justice by faking a life-threatening medical condition, U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz found. That caused delays for both his trial and sentencing hearing.

Hogeland, now of Aurora, Texas, was convicted in December 2011 of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and income tax evasion.