Teacher stabbed to death by student in Leeds

roryc · 28-04-2014 03:33PM #1

Pretty sure nothing like this has ever happened in Ireland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27193638

jane82 · 28-04-2014 03:36PM

Terrible.

Graces7 · 28-04-2014 03:39PM

prayers for her family - and his.

not long since the school stabbings in the us.

Lucifer MorningStar · 28-04-2014 03:40PM

It's a sick and dangerous world we're living in.

SCOOP 64 · 28-04-2014 03:41PM

Poor women, you could expect it being mugged on a street, but a teacher at work in school.

TeddyTedson · 28-04-2014 03:42PM

Tragic.
Her family will be absolutely shocked. Just something you never expect to happen at a school.

In my school I remember a fight that broke out where one of the students produced a knife and had if up against the others lads neck and one of the older teachers had to get involved to convince him to put the knife down. Dramatic stuff.

MJ23 · 28-04-2014 03:42PM

See it on Sky News here now.
Tragic.

Kristopherus · 28-04-2014 03:42PM

More about it here http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/teacher-dies-after-stabbing-at-leeds-school-latest-1-6584270

SCOOP 64 · 28-04-2014 03:44PM

It will have to get like the US with security guards at entrance with metal detector scanners.

CJhaughey · 28-04-2014 03:45PM

Metal detectors soon, just like US schools.

ryan101 · 28-04-2014 03:45PM

Sign of the times

Plek Trum · 28-04-2014 03:47PM

I know of a few schools in London that have metal detectors already, this is becoming familiar in some areas. I taught in UK for a few years before the sheer madness of it all convinced me that teaching was in fact NOT for me. Everyday like a battle ground, violence, threats, attitude - and that was just the parents. Quit teaching and have never looked back - its really not 'all that' as a profession!

131spanner · 28-04-2014 03:49PM

A 15 year old me didn't have the balls to give cheek to a teacher. To think a young lad could do that to a teacher...

An awful tragedy that will have huge consequences, RIP.

roryc · 28-04-2014 03:54PM

Jesus Christ, she was 61.

"Schoolchildren and former pupils have paid tribute to the 61-year-old teacher, who has been named locally and on social media as Anne Maguire. "

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/472861/Teacher-dies-after-being-stabbed-at-Corpus-Christi-Catholic-College-in-Leeds

punisher5112 · 28-04-2014 03:56PM

These kids have no respect and the police can't even control them.

Very very sad and my sincere condolences to the woman's family.

Hope he rots in jail.

jane82 · 28-04-2014 03:58PM

They have to start punishing parents for raiseing animals.

ryan101 · 28-04-2014 03:59PM

roryc wrote: »

Jesus Christ, she was 61.

"Schoolchildren and former pupils have paid tribute to the 61-year-old teacher, who has been named locally and on social media as Anne Maguire. "

"Miss Maguire taught Spanish and Religious Education at the school. "

Paramite Pie · 28-04-2014 04:00PM

This is insane.

If a teacher was attacked by a student with a knife and if the teacher defended themselves physically they could still be sacked and/or sued.

Considering this could become a lot more common, I do think regulation should be introduced to protect teachers rights to self defense. I wonder how long before this is happening in Ireland?

Also, I wonder what kind of environment was this teen raised in? Social services really ought to get any other kids out of that household until the parents are evaluated.

the_monkey · 28-04-2014 05:21PM

Pretty soon it will happen in Ireland, it's this PC BULLSHÍT that the poor kids are "victims" ... as allready said had the teacher defended herself and hit the kid before he could stab her, she'd be sacked,sued and fined or maybe in the worst case gone to prison.

Meanwhile the little toerag and his family will continue to live on social benefits - tax payers money being spent wisely.

Disgusting society the UK is and Ireland's becoming.

MagicMarker · 28-04-2014 05:23PM

the_monkey wrote: »

Pretty soon it will happen in Ireland, it's this PC BULLSHÍT that the poor kids are "victims" ... as allready said had the teacher defended herself and hit the kid before he could stab her, she'd be sacked,sued and fined or maybe in the worst case gone to prison.

Anyone who seriously thinks a teacher would be fired for defending themselves against a knife attack from a student are obviously talking complete and utter shíte.

FTA69 · 28-04-2014 05:29PM

the_monkey wrote: »

Disgusting society the UK is and Ireland's becoming.

Yeah it's so terrible hundreds of Irish people move here every week. I know this is an awful incident, but it's a bit silly to write off an entire country over it.

Dtp1979 · 28-04-2014 05:33PM

Fcukin little scumbag

28-04-2014 05:33PM

Looks like she started picking on the wrong kid. She mustn't have known the decent kids from the animals. During my time the animals were left do whatever the hell they wanted. Heck in my school one teacher's son had a knife!

No doubt this will be seized upon teachers everywhere to empower themselves. No one deserves to be stabbed but the idea that the teachers are angels is also wrong. I came across many ****e, bullying teachers. I think the word is "lunatics"!

Khannie · 28-04-2014 05:44PM

Can't see anything about motive. Anyone read anything anywhere?

brummytom · 28-04-2014 05:50PM

the_monkey wrote: »

Pretty soon it will happen in Ireland, it's this PC BULLSHÍT that the poor kids are "victims" ... as allready said had the teacher defended herself and hit the kid before he could stab her, she'd be sacked,sued and fined or maybe in the worst case gone to prison.

Yeah... none of those things would have happened.

Meanwhile the little toerag and his family will continue to live on social benefits - tax payers money being spent wisely.

Who says his family were on benefits?

On topic, it's absolutely awful. RIP.

Dave0301 · 28-04-2014 05:56PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Looks like she started picking on the wrong kid. She mustn't have known the decent kids from the animals. During my time the animals were left do whatever the hell they wanted. Heck in my school one teacher's son had a knife!

No doubt this will be seized upon teachers everywhere to empower themselves. No one deserves to be stabbed but the idea that the teachers are angels is also wrong. I came across many ****e, bullying teachers. I think the word is "lunatics"!

Jaysus, there is so much wrong with this post I just don't know where to start.

Stheno · 28-04-2014 05:57PM

That's dreadful

Her pupils who witnessed it must be in shock

RIP

Pa2k · 28-04-2014 06:03PM

Has to have been on something or mentally unstable, who in there right mind would do that

H3llR4iser · 28-04-2014 06:04PM

I'm not even sure where tackling this issue could begin. I come from what is considered quite a rough place (southern Italy) and there were indeed more than a bunch of "up to no good" characters in the schools I attended.
Bullying was the order of the day, some guys (and girls too) seemed to simply go to school to pick up a different fight each day and possession of switchblade knives was definitely not unheard of.

And yet while there were brawls and vandalizing, events of a comparable gravity to the Leeds' ones were extremely rare, mostly because even the most pig-headed, p1sscup of a child/teenager knew they'd be in a cr@pload of trouble, should they do something THAT stupid.

Today, the entitled shower of cnuts that these parents are would defend their sociopath scum of a child, no matter what. Stay tuned for the description of this 15 years old pile of fecal matter as a "quiet guy" and "loving child" start to surface, if they don't go full blown into the "poor troubled child" sob story, I kid you not. The fact that he's 15 also means there are chances he'll just walk and keep wasting precious oxygen that could be devoted to better and more relevant uses - firing up a barbecue, for example.

Nodin · 28-04-2014 06:15PM

the_monkey wrote: »

Pretty soon it will happen in Ireland, it's this PC BULLSHÍT that the poor kids are "victims" ... as allready said had the teacher defended herself and hit the kid before he could stab her, she'd be sacked,sued and fined or maybe in the worst case gone to prison..

You'll be able to refer us to that law, I trust?

the_monkey wrote: »

Meanwhile the little toerag and his family will continue to live on social benefits - tax payers money being spent wisely..

How do you know they are on "social benefits"?

Meangadh · 28-04-2014 06:17PM

I have to say that as a teacher, hearing this kind of thing terrifies me. I'm very lucky to teach in a lovely all girls secondary school where I would sincerely hope nothing like this would ever happen, but I suppose you never know.

I've taught in a few other schools though where I've had a number of male students I refused to ever work with one-on-one without another pupil or teacher present because I was genuinely a bit scared, or at the very least wary of them. And I can tell you now, a number of them were from well-off families, even some in a private school I taught in. Social background does not always have a part to play in deciding what kind of people commit this kind of thing.

My sympathies to this lady's family, friends, colleagues and students. I can't even begin to imagine the horror of having to deal with such an event in a school.

Teacher stabbed to death by student in Leeds

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