JONESBORO, March 26: As a child, Shannon Wright would play school, writing out lesson plans for her little brother and making him do homework. As an adult, she landed her dream job, teaching English in the school district she attended.She died there on Tuesday in an ambush while protecting one of her pupils.``That's the only place she ever wanted to teach,'' said her husband, Mitchell.As her students fell to the ground, screaming and bleeding in a spray of gunfire, Wright threw herself in front of sixth-grader Emma Pittman.The 32-year-old English teacher was shot in the chest and abdomen. She died later at a hospital. Emma was unharmed.Four of her classmates all girls were killed. Ten other students and one teacher were wounded in the rampage at Westside Middle School.``She never came home and talked bad about any of her kids,'' Mitchell Wright said on Wednesday. ``She just always enjoyed working with kids and helping kids,''he said.On Tuesday, Shannon had just finished lunch with herstudents and returned to her classroom when a fire alarm rang and she ushered the children outside.That's when two boys decked from head to foot in camouflage and waiting in the woods behind the school opened fire. Mitchell said he had no doubt that his wife acted instinctively. ``I'm sure that if she thought someone was trying to hurt one of her kids, she would try to protect them,'' he said.
