The reason the student gave for killing his principal puts all educators on alert.

[mfcorey1]

“Eduardo Marmolejo admitted that he had stabbed his teacher Suzette York multiple times because he did not like her and she made him angry,” the affidavit read. “(He) said that he had been planning to kill Mrs. York since May 2011 when he learned he would be returning to the Memphis Junior Academy. (He) said that he planned to kill Mrs. York (Wednesday) because he knew she would be alone in the classroom with him.”

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/aug/10/female-teacher-found-dead-memphis-junior-academy/

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. The consumer satisfaction model isn't working? n/t

[Supersedeas]

2. And it is not just educators that should be on alert--if you think about it

[SoCalDem]

4. People have died because someone wanted their cool shoes

or a necklace :(

[malaise]

5. or their cell phone or their hoodie

'mindless consumerism' has taken over at the expense of human life, our environment, education, knowledge, family and other important values for life.
Don't forget to thank George Bush!!
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George W. Bush, President of the United States at the darkest hour almost any of its citizens can remember, pronounces the word terror "terra." He's helpless with Latin. And he still needs work on waiting out his applause. But Thursday night, in front of the U.S. Congress and the nation, eight months to the day after he took office following an election that was pretty dark itself, Bush delivered the finest, strongest, clearest, several-times-chill-giving speech of his life. Here's how he did it:

Four: Give the marching orders

"After all that has just passed, all the lives taken and all the possibilities and hopes that died with them, it is natural to wonder if America's future is one of fear� Americans are asking, 'What is expected of us?'"

He then answered his own rhetorical question with a line Americans wanted to hear.

"I ask you to live your lives and hug your children."

He could have stopped there — a gem of a line, a Hallmark-card-sized summation of the littlest and best things we can do — but when American shores are smoldering still, Bush must have realized that more couldn't hurt. Be calm, not scared; be tolerant, not blind; be generous, not selfish; be patient, patient, patient, at airports and skyscrapers and landmarks and hotels and traffic stops and bus stops and train stations and anywhere else it is possible to imagine a public vulnerability, which of course is everywhere.

And for God's sake keep shopping — "I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy" — and keep praying:

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,175757,00.html#ixzz1Uja9zroh

[Supersedeas]

6. a matter of patriotic duty to be inflicted with Affluenza

[SoCalDem]

3. sad all round

sad that she lost her life and sad that this young person puts no value on another's life:(

[ljm2002]

7. Not much of a reason given...

..."I didn't like her. She made me angry." Pretty non-specific. I think the main thing is, that he knew he would be alone in the classroom with her. Apparently he was the sole 11th-grade student in the school. So maybe it's not the reason that will put educators on alert, so much as the circumstance that allowed it to happen.

How tragic.