Students find body of well-liked California teacher hanging in classroom

Students find body of well-liked California teacher hanging in classroom

Witnesses saw students burst into another classroom and take the teacher with them, and they heard a scream shortly after they entered the classroom of photography teacher Jillian Jacobson.

A teacher committed suicide by hanging herself in her classroom in Southern California, where she was discovered by students arriving for class.

Jillian Jacobson, a 31-year-old photography teacher at El Dorado High School, was found hanging from the ceiling after students went to get another teacher to open the door, thinking that Jacobson was simply late for class, according to an Associated Press report.

Although police haven’t found any suicide note, they believe that she did in fact take her own life. Two school staff members pulled Jacobson down and called 911, and even tried CPR to no avail.

The AP report stated that students witnessed two of Jacobson’s students storm into their class and head for their teacher, who then ran out of class. Shortly after, they heard a scream.

The school dismissed classes for the day at 11 a.m. and made crisis counselors available on campus, as well as installed a crisis intervention team to operate on campus for the remainder of the week, said Assistant Superintendent Kevin Lee of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Districts.

According to Jacobson’s biography on an educational website website, she had a bachelor’s degree in ceramics and glass, and a master’s degree in educational leadership. She had been teaching at the high school since 2008.

Students took to social media to thank Jacobson for inspiring them to take up photographer and for generally acting in their best interests as a teacher.

Her own profile page on the school’s bio casts a cheery glow on things, stating for example that “Today is a great day to take a picture!” under her smiling picture. She said in a bio on another site that her goal each summer is to provide art campers an “experience they will always remember, and to send them home with art work they will be proud of for years to come.”

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