CENTER LINE, Mich. – Teacher Staci Herrell is unsure if she can ever step foot in a classroom again.

Herrell told Macomb County Circuit Court judge Katheryn George that one of her seventh-grade students made comments in a Wolfe Middle School survey that she liked her teacher, but wanted to see her blood. The student also allegedly mentioned the Herrell’s 8-year-old daughter in a questionnaire handed out to students about an Instagram threat that closed the school for two days in May, the Macomb Daily reports.

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Herrell secured a personal protection order against the student May 26, but the student is now seeking to terminate the PPO and the teacher is fighting the move.

“(The student) and I had a great relationship,” Herrell told George, according to the news site. “I hugged her. I kissed her on the forehead. That’s why I’m so fearful.”

The girl attended the recent hearing with her father, but will not testify about the PPO until she’s evaluated by a psychiatrist and returns to court Aug. 18.

Herrell alleges that the student wrote in a journal that she “can’t wait to see (the teacher’s) blood,” and signed the comments “Crystal the Killer.” School counselors interviewed the girl, who allegedly told them “she has a list of 10 names of people she wanted to kill” and “some of (her) classmates were on the list,” the Macomb Daily reports.

In a school survey May 13, the girl wrote that an Instagram threat by another student about killing people at the school excited her, and she “loved death and blood,” according to a police report submitted by school officials.

The girl told counselors she wanted to kill her family and keeps a knife hidden under her bed.

“It kind of scares me to think I enjoy Death, gore, and Macabre,” the seventh-grader wrote in the school survey, according to the Daily. “My worry isn’t about the threat itself. Its (sic) about how I’m going to deal with it. Right now I want to just laugh and kill everyone, but I know that’s not going to happen.”

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Herrell alleges she came across the student’s survey responses after they were left on a school copy machine, the news site reports.

“I’m very fearful of what she could do because she has said she is homicidal,” the teacher told George.

Herrell took a leave of absence May 18 because the child’s musings made her “physically ill” and didn’t return for the rest of the school year, which ended June 12.

“She has imaginary friends that tell her to kill people,” Herrell told the Macomb Daily. “I am afraid for my life. I am afraid for my family’s lives. … I have been unable to work since (May 18) due to extreme anxiety.”

The teacher alleges school officials attempted to keep the case under wraps, and refused to provide her with a copy of the girl’s comments “in case they ever got out so there wouldn’t be any question if they came from me,” Herrell said.

She alleges district officials told her to keep quiet about the episode “because they didn’t want to cause a ruckus,” Herrell told the Daily.

“The district has swept all of this under the rug,” she said. “I believe the school district is trying to keep their image in the community at the expense of the safety of its employees and 10 other students.”

District officials would not comment on the specifics of the case, citing student privacy, but said there was never a “hit list,” as school councilors allege.

“We had some concerns about an individual student,” assistant superintendent of human resources Andrew McKinnon told the Daily. “The student was removed from the building, and we’ve taken measures involving students and staff in the same building.”

Johnathan Jones, attorney for the student, told George the girl wasn’t threatening anyone, but rather expressing her personal thoughts, which isn’t a crime.

“This isn’t Dylan Klebold from Columbine (one of two killers in a Colorado high school massacre),” he said. “Context is a real big thing here.”

Jones said the girl was copying characters in the video game “Slender Man,” the same character two 12-year-old Milwaukee girls blamed for stabbing another girl 19 times last year, the news site reports.

In that case, 12-year-olds Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier allegedly held down their friend and stabbed her repeatedly in the arms, legs and torso.

“According to the criminal complaint, Weier stated that ‘many people do not believe Slender Man is real,’ and she ‘wanted to prove the skeptics wrong,’” WTMJ reports. “Their goal may have been to become a ‘proxy of Slender,’ which required the girls to ‘physically kill someone,’ the complaint says.”