John Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Corpus Christi College in Leeds is “open as usual today”. But it sadly opened without 61 year old Anne Maguire this morning who had taught there for the past 41 years since leaving university to take up a career in teaching. Anne Maguire was due to retire this year. But a well earned retirement was denied her by a 15 year old male pupil at around 11.45 yesterday. Her assailant is said to have left his GCSE Spanish lesson having asked to do some printing. On his return he is reported to have walked up behind his victim in front of her class of 30 and ended her life by repeatedly stabbing her in the back and neck with a kitchen knife. The 15 year old was held by a fellow teacher who had heard the screams coming from her class and by other staff who then helped detain him until the police arrived. Mrs Maguire was taken to hospital by paramedics but was declared dead on arrival. The accused was said to have held a grudge against the teacher following a series of arguments and a detention he had been given by her last week. He is said to have a history of depression and is described as being withdrawn. His Facebook page apparently lists no friends and features a pencil drawing of the grim reaper. But what on earth could lead him to consider that he had any justification to even consider taking a life? What also leads to a situation where a survey carried out by the Teacher Support Network shows that 48% of teachers have either been assaulted or threatened by pupils? Anne Maguire was not a soldier going to war yesterday morning. She was a teacher of RE, Music and Spanish who was expected to return home safely to her family as were those staff and pupils who left for school today. My thoughts are with her family at their time of loss. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Crazy to think that this time yesterday she was just at work like any normal day. Even sadder to hear that she was retiring this year after so long at the school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted April 29, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted April 29, 2014 Crazy stuff. People are strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 A sad horrible event that while possibly could have been prevented there is always that miniscule percent of the human psyche that you just can't account for or apportion blame to after its happened, although I'm sure the media will find a scapegoat. Tragic, needless loss of life. Rip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kingfisher Posted April 29, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2014 Teenagers aren't out of control. Movies aren't making them more violent. Video games aren't making them more violent. It's not liberal teaching methods - we don't need to start treating children like they're robots. We don't need to bring back the birch. Just a tragic, tragic act of random violence. RIP 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rjw63 Posted April 29, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2014 Crazy stuff. People are strange. People are scum, and their upbringing by some "couldn't give a shit" parents is where the problems begin. My missus is a teacher so this story is especially hard hitting. Just glad she is only at a primary school. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 The Times quotes someone as having been told by him that he would "love for her to be dead". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Bloody shocking and a sad indictment of the world we live in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 The Times quotes someone as having been told by him that he would "love for her to be dead". If every child who made this kind of comment about a teacher, parent, friend etc. was locked up there would be none left to teach. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I'm surprised that something similar hasn't happened before to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jon Posted April 29, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2014 Horrendous, rare act of shocking violence is both horrendous and rare. It makes the headlines, and shocks us, because it is so rare and horrendous. What it isn't is some kind of reflection or indictment of society or 'the world we live in today'. Were that to be the case, this sort of thing would have to be happening far more often. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted April 29, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted April 29, 2014 Surprised this hasn't happened already, I felt like killing loads of my teachers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 RIP to this teacher. But how stupid must the pupil be to stab someone to death infront of all those witnesses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Very? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Surprised this hasn't happened already, I felt like killing loads of my teachers Classy that. What a sad story, the kid obviously has severe issues and it's just a shame no one tried to help him sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 This is so sad. The lad clearly has issues given the premeditated nature of the incident. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 (edited) There was a teacher who was raped and stabbed to death by one of her students a few towns away from where I live. Happened last year. It was after school hours and she was tutoring him in mathematics. Helping the kid. And he does that to her. Edited April 29, 2014 by maqroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 There was a teacher who was raped and stabbed to death by one of her students a few towns away from where I live. Happened last year. It was after school hours and she was tutoring him in mathematics. Helping the kid. And he does that to her. Ungrateful bastard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetrees Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 There was a teacher who was raped and stabbed to death by one of her students a few towns away from where I live. Happened last year. It was after school hours and she was tutoring him in mathematics. Helping the kid. And he does that to her. I had a private maths tutor when I was 13/14 and she had the most amazing tits. I was completely transfixed by her and often had to wrestle with a difficult algebra problem while contending with a raging hard on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Surprised this hasn't happened already, I felt like killing loads of my teachers Classy that. What a sad story, the kid obviously has severe issues and it's just a shame no one tried to help him sooner. Maybe it was just an evil act from a complete word removed of a student. Why does he need to have 'issues' or have needed help. Sometimes people are evil, and they should rot in hell. RIP Anne Maguire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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