The armed sheriff’s deputy assigned to the Florida high school where 17 people were shot and killed has resigned rather than face suspension after an internal investigation showed he failed to enter the school to confront the gunman during the attack, the county sheriff said on Thursday. Deputy Scot Peterson, who was on duty and in uniform as the resource officer posted at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was the only law enforcement officer present at the campus during the six-minute rampage last Wednesday, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said. Peterson’s actions were caught on video during the massacre, which ranks as the second-deadliest shooting ever at a U.S. public school, carried out by a lone gunman wielding a semiautomatic AR-15-style assault rifle. “What I saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of Building 12, take up a position and he never went in,” Israel said, referring to the building on campus, popularly known as the “freshman building,” where authorities said the bulk of the shooting occurred. Israel said he would not release the video at this time and may never do so, “depending on the prosecution and criminal case” against Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old former student who is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the assault. Israel told reporters the shooting lasted six minutes, and that Peterson arrived at the freshman building about 90 seconds after the first shots were fired, then lingered outside for at least four minutes. Asked what the deputy should have… [Read full story]
PARKLAND, Fla. -- A 19-year-old gunman returning to a Florida high school where he had once been expelled opened fire with an assault rifle on Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding more than a dozen others before he was arrested, authorities said. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a placid, middle-class community about 45 miles (72 km) north of Miami, ranked as the second-deadliest act of gun violence ever on a U.S. public school campus. The attack began shortly before the school’s dismissal. Television footage showed images, increasingly familiar in America, of bewildered students streaming out…... [read more]
Third of nation's high school students fail graduation exams (18-06-2007) HA NOI — One-third of students failed their final examinations this year, according to data released by the Ministry of Education and Training yesterday. This means that about 320,000 students nationwide must retake their final exams. The pass rate sank to 67.5 per cent this year, a reduction of 25 per cent from the same term last year, during which 92 per cent of students passed their final exams. Of the localities with the highest passing rates, HCM City led with 95.1 per cent, followed by Nam Dinh with 90.3…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge - The number of secondary school graduates has been increasing steadily year after year, while the number of state-owned high schools has failed to rise accordingly. That explains why the race to state-owned high schools is heating up. The HCM City Education and Training Department has decided that 61,742 students will be enrolled in state-owned high schools in the 2014-2015 academic year, an increase of 1,320 students over this year. However, with the high number of secondary school graduates standing at 74,000, about 12,000 students, or 20 percent of the total, will not have the chance to go…... [read more]
NDO – More than 866,000 students nationwide on June 22 officially began the 2017 national high school exam - the largest test of the year - to obtain results for high school graduation and admission to colleges. The national exam, a combination of the two previously separate high school graduation and university entrance exams, was first implemented in 2015 and has been adjusted continuously in the following years by the Ministry of Education and Training to better serve the purpose of the exams and to suit the actual conditions, with the aim of reducing pressure on students and society.
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Responding to a request from Tuoi Tre News, a number of educators have commented on a plan to comprehensively transform Vietnam’s national education system. Responding to a request from Tuoi Tre News, a number of educators have commented on a plan to comprehensively transform Vietnam’s national education system. Included in the plan initiated by the Ministry of Education and Training is a call to eliminate the annual nationwide high school exam as a prerequisite for graduation. The academic and social performance of high school students would instead be evaluated by students’ immediate educators, who will decide whether or not the…... [read more]
