Illinois Teacher Commits Suicide Citing Bad Working Conditions
Submitted on January 9, 2012
By Kristina Betinis - 9 January 2012
Mary Thorson, a 32-year-old physical education teacher at Cottage Grove Upper Grade Center in Ford Heights, Illinois, took her own life on November 24, 2011. The note she left at the scene of her death was devoted almost entirely to the conditions in the Ford Heights school district...More than 98 percent of students in [Ford Heights]...live below the poverty line...Thorson wrote of extreme hardships faced by the students, the school administration’s disregard for teachers, and the lack of resources available in the district.
