Sarah, 25, who teaches at exclusive Stockport Grammar school , was sent home this week after pupils stumbled across a graphic advert in which she stars as a seductive secretary.
Speaking at the family home in Sale, her mum Debra (pictured), a church pastor, said she was backing Sarah in her fight to keep her job.
Mrs Green said: "It's been really upsetting. We have been very shocked by this."
The mother-of-four said she could not discuss the matter in public in case it prejudices her daughter's case.
Mrs Green is a pastor at the Ivy Cottage church in Didsbury and is also a director of a national religious charity. Her husband Frank is an elder at the same church and is director of operations for the Message Trust, a Christian youth charity.
Sarah began working at Stockport Grammar in autumn 2006 and is understood to be popular with pupils and fellow staff. The £7,000-a-year private school is one of the oldest in the country, dating back to 1487. It is believed Sarah was still a student when she was hired to make a film promoting a brand of protective workwear which shows builders being seduced by three attractive women at work.
CBJWT
Although Sarah was fully-clothed throughout, it was too explicit for television but proved a hit on the internet with tens of thousands of viewers on YouTube and other sites. It was produced by Manchester-based ad agency CBJWT in 2004.
Ms Green was commissioned through a Cheshire casting agency to take part in the advert. The video came to the attention of staff at the school when it began to be circulated among pupils.
Headteacher Andrew Chicken wrote to parents this week to confirm he was investigating her past.
The action taken against Sarah has provoked a massive response on the M.E.N. website with 93 per cent voting that she should not have been suspended in an online poll.
Sarah trained to be a teacher at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and has gained the backing of her former tutors.
Professor Andy Jones, acting Dean of MMU's education faculty, said: "I frankly don't understand it, she was engaged in a legitimate acting job. She has not committed a crime and has not been convicted of an offence. What is she guilty of?"
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Surely it should be the pupils who are suspended for looking for that type of video, not the teacher. If she is good at her job then the headteacher should be supporting her and not turning it into a media circus.
Give her her job back and punish the randy little sods who are surfing for porn (especially if they are doing it on school computers!)
As a former pupil of Stockport Grammar School I have no hesitation in saying
that the headmaster's decision marks him as a chicken in reality as well as in name.
Headmaster Chicken what's all the squawking about. You have to be yoking. Scratching around and getting your feathers all ruffled. Leave the chick alone. We all have done things in the past so leave it there. It has nothing to do with her present job. I hope the union rings your neck.
Shouldn't Mr Chicken (ha,ha sorry about that) have been "investigating her past"
before he gave her the job It might be worth investigating Mr Chicken (ha,ha) and some members of staff, I wonder what skeletons would come to life. Let her get back to work and all this will blow over in a couple of weeks.
P.S. Own up how many dads got their sons to punch it up on the internet.
I bet with all this adverse publicity that has back fired on to the school and its management, Mr Chicken thinks the sky is falling in.
If even 'adults' resort to playing on the Headmaster's name when posting comments on this site (chicken, haha, gerrit etc.) then there's obviously no chance of the teacher being able to keep order in a class of pupils who are aware of this advert. And by the way, it's likely to be the Governors and not the Headmaster who decide the outcome. You never know, perhaps one of those will have a funny name to keep the more infantile amused.