{"id":21323,"date":"2024-03-22T11:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=21323"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:11:38","slug":"pregnant-new-york-special-education-teacher-found-dead-in-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2024\/03\/pregnant-new-york-special-education-teacher-found-dead-in-classroom","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant New York Special Education Teacher Found Dead in Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21326\" style=\"width: 892px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2024\/03\/courtney-fannon-ny-spec-ed-teacher-credit-courtney-fannon-facebook.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21326\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2024\/03\/courtney-fannon-ny-spec-ed-teacher-credit-courtney-fannon-facebook.png\" alt=\"courtney fannon\" width=\"892\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Fannon\/Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An upstate New York special education teacher tragically died in her classroom, along with her unborn baby, the school announced. A news release from Kendall Elementary School stated that 29-year-old Courtney Fannon was found unresponsive in her empty classroom after school hours. Despite life-saving measures, both Fannon and her unborn baby were declared dead. A cause of death hasn\u2019t been released.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/courtney-and-hadley-fannon\">According to a GoFundMe page<\/a>, Fannon was pregnant with her daughter, Hadley Jaye, and was about four weeks away from her expected arrival. The GoFundMe stated, \u201cFor those who did not have the wonderful opportunity to meet or get to know Courtney, there is an endless amount of positive and good things that can only be said about her. She was loving, genuine and organized in a way that always placed her students ahead of herself, ultimately changing the lives of her students and caregivers, always for the positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/64Df-lHE5d0?si=lwSI-C1r0HE0dU_g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The post read, \u201cAs we mourn, we also ask that you hold your loved ones just a little tighter over the next few days; you never know if you will have a tomorrow with them.\u201d The school said that Fannon had a \u201cpassion\u201d for\u00a0teaching special needs\u00a0students and always had a friendly smile on her face. The school said, \u201cCourtney was a special education teacher who served her students with passion and joy each day,\u201d the school said. \u201cWhen she wasn\u2019t in her classroom sharing her love and gift for teaching with her students, she could be found walking our halls with a smile and a friendly hello.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2024\/03\/14\/courtney-fannon-unborn-baby-die-after-collapsing-in-classroom-kendall-ny-teacher\/72967856007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rochester Democrat &amp; Chronicle<\/a>, Fannon sent a text to her husband and was packing up for the day and preparing to head home from school. The newspaper reported that just minutes after Fannon sent the text to her husband, she was found unresponsive in the school building. Fannon was rushed to the hospital, where she and her unborn daughter Hadley both died. Her family says Hadley was due in April. Mental health counselors\u00a0will be available to support students, the school said. The GoFundMe has raised more than $95,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upstate New York special education teacher tragically died in her classroom, along with her unborn baby, the school announced. A news release from Kendall Elementary School stated that 29-year-old Courtney Fannon was found unresponsive in her empty classroom after school hours. Despite life-saving measures, both Fannon and her unborn baby were declared dead. 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