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   PARIS –  The mother of a pupil at a French pre-school stabbed a   
   teacher to death in front of her class Friday, the last day of   
   the school year, authorities said.   
      
   The education minister said the mother apparently had "serious   
   psychiatric problems," and pledged support for teachers in the   
   face of angry or violent parents. Police said the mother was   
   taken into custody.   
      
   Deadly attacks in a school are extremely rare in France, and the   
   stabbing in front of a class of 5- and 6-year-olds raised   
   concern at the highest levels. French President Francois   
   Hollande expressed outrage at the attack at the Edouard Herriot   
   school in Albi in southern France.   
      
   Education Minister Benoit Hamon traveled immediately to the   
   school, and told reporters that the mother of a pupil "committed   
   this abominable act in a class against a remarkable teacher." A   
   police official said the mother stabbed the teacher with a knife   
   soon after school started Friday morning.   
      
   Hamon said the attacker's child had been in the school only for   
   a month and a half, and the mother had had very little contact   
   with the school staff until Friday. It was unclear whether her 5-   
   year-old daughter was in class at the time of the attack.   
      
   Police and city officials would not comment on possible reasons   
   for the attack on Fabienne Terral-CalmFs, 34. The slain teacher   
   had two small daughters, Hamon said.   
      
   The regional prosecutor was expected to speak publicly about the   
   case Friday evening.   
      
   After Friday's attack, "the children were immediately taken in   
   by another teacher who brought them to another classroom to talk   
   to them, to tell them stories, to try to break them away from   
   what they had just lived through," Hamon said.   
      
   Marie-Odile Gay, a member of the regional health and safety   
   committee for the Education Ministry, said the mother thought   
   the teacher had called her daughter a thief, and that   
   misperception might have played a role in the attack.   
      
   Gay said that the mother, 47, had received psychiatric   
   counseling in the past, and had been accused by police earlier   
   this year of abandoning her 15-year-old son.   
      
   Gay said the 5-year-old daughter had not had any difficulties in   
   school, and was transferred Friday to the care of social   
   services.   
      
   "This is something that will stay with her forever," Gay said.   
   "It's very important to ensure that she is cared for."   
      
   Some teachers complained that staff cuts have left teachers more   
   vulnerable, and urged better attention to the tensions they face   
   with some parents.   
      
   But fellow teacher Robert Couffignal of the regional teachers   
   union insisted that the attack was an "isolated case" that had   
   nothing to do with this particular school, and warned against   
   going overboard with security measures as a result.   
      
   "Metal detectors at schools are not the answer," he told The   
   Associated Press by telephone. "We want to have close contact   
   with the parents that creates a link of trust."   
      
   He said the larger problem for schools in his region and around   
   France is tension over economic decline and lack of job   
   prospects for young people, especially those from poor or   
   immigrant backgrounds.   
      
   The education minister lamented the especially painful timing of   
   the attack.   
      
   "This July 4, the moment when we should be happy for all   
   children that school is over, that vacations are beginning, that   
   teachers successfully completed the school year, has been turned   
   into a day of mourning ... by this abominable crime," Hamon said.   
      
   France still feels scars from a shooting at a Jewish school in   
   Toulouse in southern France in 2012 that left three children and   
   a rabbi dead.   
      
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