A heroine you should see - Mexico: Teacher Sings with Students During Shooting (video clip)

[Are_grits_groceries]

The video recorded by the teacher on a cellphone shows a classroom full of very young children lying on the floor. The teacher is heard gently asking her students to keep their heads on the floor while shots are heard in the background. She reassures the children that everything is ok, and that they'll be safe in the classroom, reminding them to keep their heads down.

To distract them, she starts singing with them. She selects the Raindrop Song from the Barney show: in Spanish, it wonders about what would happen if raindrops were made out of chocolate and how you'd open the mouth wide to catch them all. By getting the children to sing the song she managed not only to keep them calm but also to have them stay with their heads on the floor, as she prompted them to turn over and look up to the sky with their mouths opened wide.

Video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlmNj5T_Brc

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/05/28/mexico-teacher-sings-with-students-during-shooting/

Bravo!

I am also saddened beyond words after seeing this video. Hopefully, those kids will remember the teacher more than the gun fire.

[SDuderstadt]

1. My heart is...

broken.

[pepperbear]

2. k and r

[FLSurfer]

3. I can hear the gun shots on the video

so I'm sure the kids can hear them as well.
They are calmly laying on the floor singing with the teacher?
Are gun fights that normal in this area?
Kinda sad really.