Teacher was stabbed in class
The teacher attacked Thursday was stabbed in front of his class teaching art at the EMSB’s John F. Kennedy high school. The Journal specifies that the class had just ended when the student, who wasn’t in that class, came in and stabbed him in the chest. The photos of the teacher shown by CTV and by the Journal are quite different, but age and a haircut can change a man.
Update: The prosecutor is already asking for the attacker to be sentenced as an adult, which strikes me as premature.
Second update: the teenager has been charged with attempted murder.
walkerp 12:33 on 2021-12-10 Permalink
The teacher looks fairly buff, like he could handle himself in a scuffle. Glad it’s not too serious but still pretty brutal. Seems like a case of mental illness, as everybody liked the teacher and didn’t seem to be any history there between him and the student. I sure hope this doesn’t trigger a lot of security hysteria. Shit happens.
david944 04:35 on 2021-12-11 Permalink
Oh yeah, it’s ‘mental illness’ because . . . everyone liked the teacher.
In other news, mental illness also resulted in every other crime in Montreal, and we can just let everyone off now.
Kate 10:47 on 2021-12-11 Permalink
Mental illness, at least of the sort that leads to violent actions, isn’t a “get out of jail free” card. Look at Ali Ngarukiye. He’ll be kept at Pinel indefinitely. And I don’t imagine Pinel is a party.
david448 03:07 on 2021-12-12 Permalink
It’s a get out of jail free card in most cases, yeah.
carswell 10:03 on 2021-12-12 Permalink
https://mtlcityweblog.com/2021/07/27/peace-and-sorrow-in-the-news/#comment-163940
david2727 00:17 on 2021-12-14 Permalink
^ The autodidact’s idea of wit.
carswell 00:37 on 2021-12-14 Permalink
No, just a widely shared sentiment around these parts.
david2727 00:39 on 2021-12-14 Permalink
True that the thinking has declined a lot on this site over the 15 years I’ve been haunting it. A shame.
david2727 00:50 on 2021-12-14 Permalink
Still a lot of quality – only because of Kate actually being a good news-hound – but where it was once a source of interesting and contrarian discourse, discussion of things to do over the weekend, subsidiary links to interesting articles, etc. . . .
Now, we have an ossified gang (and I continue to consider myself a part of that, even as I’m close to exiting), complaining almost every post about Quebec, virture signaling about how they Quebecois are racists because they’re not on board with this whole Canadian thing, complaining about the growth and development of this amazing city, and just going all-out, stone cold, anti-capitalist.
Not interesting, good sir, not interesting.
You can hate on me, and maybe one of these days Kate will ban me or I’ll just stop posting, drummed out like some of the other really interesting people who used to be ultra-regulars.
See ya, I can see you celebrate and clap in victory that a real-life person with a semi-important job stops reading what you say about the city and place you live.
carswell 00:51 on 2021-12-14 Permalink
I see. The thinking has declined since you showed up. Makes sense. G’night, troll.