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(44,397 posts) Mon Mar 2, 2015, 05:36 PM Mar 2015

students find popular teacher hanged in classroom, lower her to floor [View all]

A popular 31-year-old photography teacher was found hanging inside an Orange County high school classroom by students as they arrived to school on Monday,

The woman, identified by police as Jillian Jacobson, was found hanging from the ceiling at El Dorado High School in Placentia.

"The preliminary investigation indicates it was a suicide," said Placentia police Lt. Eric Point.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-teacher-dead-at-el-dorado-high-school-20150302-story.html
The teacher's husband was notified and grief counselors were summoned to the campus. Afternoon classes were canceled.

The students flagged down another teacher who let them in the classroom, where they found the photography instructor. Together they lowered the teacher to the floor, authorities said.

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students find popular teacher hanged in classroom, lower her to floor [View all] Liberal_in_LA Mar 2015 OP

Bad idea mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2015 #1

Excellent point ! BlueJazz Mar 2015 #2

The first concern is saving her life, if possible pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #3

Exactly. HuckleB Mar 2015 #12

Sorry. I hadn't picked that up from the initial report. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2015 #21

No, first you make sure she isn't alive. jeff47 Mar 2015 #20

Why would a teacher do this in a place where students would find her? FLPanhandle Mar 2015 #4

Suicide get the red out Mar 2015 #8

bingo. spanone Mar 2015 #16

The only a-hole thing about this thread is Post #4. bigwillq Mar 2015 #9

I imagine forensic evidence collection was not foremost in their minds. [n/t] Maedhros Mar 2015 #11

+1,000 n/t malaise Mar 2015 #13

Suicide is usually not a rational act. cwydro Mar 2015 #10

I knew a teacher who killed himself at school Nevernose Mar 2015 #14

That was my first reaction too but Phentex Mar 2015 #22

How absolutely awful. Arugula Latte Mar 2015 #5

Jillian... Dont call me Shirley Mar 2015 #6

How sad. bigwillq Mar 2015 #7

R.I.P. romanic Mar 2015 #15

Oh how sad. I hope she is at peace now. Glimmer of Hope Mar 2015 #17

... cwydro Mar 2015 #18

That school is literally like a block from where I work. Initech Mar 2015 #19

No words. ScreamingMeemie Mar 2015 #23