A primary school teacher in southern France was stabbed to death by a parent in front of students on the last day of school on Friday.

The attack occurred in the early morning at the Edouard Herriot primary school in the town of Albi, with officials saying the mother was immediately detained, according to AFP.

"This morning, a mother showed up with a knife and stabbed a 34-year-old teacher in front of her students, for reasons that will be determined by the investigation," Claude Derens, city prosecutor said. "When I arrived at the scene they were trying to revive her. She was in cardiac arrest in her classroom."

BBC News reports that the teacher's name was Fabienne Terral-Calmes and was stabbed by the mother who produced a knife and screamed, "I am not a thief."

A school parent group representative said that there were no reported issues between the teacher and the mother, but Le Point magazine claims the 47-year-old told police, "the teacher was bad" to her young child.

France has been struggling with parent-teacher interactions as of late, as a report says that nearly 50 percent of school heads were verbally abused by parents, most often upset with the level of punishment regarding their children.

Some interactions have led to physical assault and many teachers now refuse to deal with parents at all.