Have you ever had a teacher you knew passed away?

[N a t]

Literally just found out today that a teacher from my highschool died yesterday...

 

[BrinaLouWho]

Yeah my elementary librarian passed away when I was still there, so sad.

 

[zeoli]

One of my teachers from middle school died while I was in high school from a heart attack during one of his classes. Ironically, he was a gym teacher who used to tease me.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

A counselor at my old school got in a horrible accident and passed away while I was there, I didn't go to her or anything but I had met her a few times with my friend who went to her. It was pretty horrible because for a lot of students she meant a great deal... None of my teachers have passed away thankfully in the time I was in school, I'm sure since a few might have passed away but none that I heard of.

 

[dizzy bone]

When I was in high school one of our cross country coaches was killed in a car crash during summer break. She was supposed to get married to the other XC coach that summer too... real bleak first day of school. We were recently notified through alumni newsletter that one of the professors I took in college passed. He was an american poet and had some interesting stories to tell. I enjoyed his class :/

 

[arle]

When I was in elementary school, I was in the gifted program, and French was a requirement. We had a wonderful woman for our french teacher, Madame Butros. Sadly, my 3rd year in the program, she was diagnosed with cancer. It was just so sad to watch her slowly deteriorate each time we went (we were on a 10 day rotation, not including weekends.) We seriously just saw this wonderful woman ding slowly....it was sad

i remember at her memorial service for the school where they erected a bench and planted a tree in memory of her, it was a cloudy/somewhat drizzly day, the sun came out as they played a song for her and the ray of sun hit the school, it was very picturesque and calming....i do miss her.

it's a shame when we lose people like teachers and such, we don't realize how much they can impact our lives until we can't see them anymore or they pass away.

 

[forestyne]

Whilst not a teacher, in primary school (or whatever the American equivalent is) there was a girl in my class who had cancer. We would have been about 7/8 years old at the time? All I really remember is that she lost her hair and ended up having to use a wheelchair, obviously from the treatment.
They put up a memorial thing on the grassy bit next to the school building. About a 2 years ago I noticed they replaced it with a trash can...I mean, yea, it was like almost 15 years ago and probably nobody in the school now knew her (I would be surprised if any of those teachers are still alive...They were living on borrowed time back then, let alone now), but c'mon, if you're gonna get rid of a memorial for a dead kid, don't replace it with a trash can...

I was just gonna ignore this, me being a pacifist and all, but I came back just now and this entire thing still makes me ill. WHY would you do something like that? With a rubbish bin.

Luckily none of my teachers have died to my knowledge, but I had a similar experience with a girl in my year who passed away, just when I was starting in Year 7. She was disabled and needed special care, the school set up an entire room to provide for her and make the school more accessible and comfortable for her. I thought that was pretty admirable. Shame they don't care about the other students, though. Someone at my old school killed themselves the other day.

 

[jiny]

yes my 2nd grade math teacher passed away in 2014-15 i believe

 

[Tao]

I was just gonna ignore this, me being a pacifist and all, but I came back just now and this entire thing still makes me ill. WHY would you do something like that? With a rubbish bin.

The thing is, the 'memorial' was one of those big engraved stone things, so they must have gone through some real effort to move that and put a bin there.

 

[blackroserandom]

I'm not sure but I think some may have. I hope not though.

 

[Rizies]

During school, no. Scariest thing was when I had a teacher's aid collapse and had a seizure.

 

[Acruoxil]

Yeah a teacher passed away during my school years. Didn't know who she was though, but she was the biology teacher of my friends' class.

 

[easpa]

Not yet thankfully. Think I've been really fortunate in that regard!

 

[Nicole.]

I haven't known a teacher to pass away but during our final years of high school (this would have been GCSE period) a student of our year passed away due to cancer, it was absolutely devastating. My school experience was best described as horrific, would never want to go back.

 

[honeymoo]

Not that I know of, but I'm sure at least one teacher I've had in the past has. A lot of my elementary school teachers were super old! In fact, I've been the last class before a teacher retired at least 5 times.

 

[Blu Rose]

my old middle school's art teacher died while she was teaching us and we got a study hall for the rest of the term

 

[Limon]

At my first school my middle school Science teacher died. In the school I'm in right now there was a music teacher who died to breast cancer, a lot of people miss her.

 

[SensaiGallade]

I haven't know or cannot remember a teacher who passed away at school, but it is unfortunate timing right now as a younger student at my school taken her life about less than two weeks ago. It has hit everyone devastatingly...

 

[nintendofan85]

I haven't know or cannot remember a teacher who passed away at school, but it is unfortunate timing right now as a younger student at my school taken her life about less than two weeks ago. It has hit everyone devastatingly...

A senior at my school took his own life nine days ago.

 

[Lyraa]

Our deputy head teacher died when I was in year 8, he was there when my older sister was there too. He had been struggling with cancer for quite some time, being a deputy head was too much for him and we all later got news that he had passed away... I remember we all did something in memory of him, it really was a sad day, especially for the teachers who had known him for a long time