WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that arming teachers could help prevent massacres like last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, voicing support for an idea backed by the National Rifle Association gun rights group. Trump made the comment during an emotional hour-long White House meeting with students who survived the Florida shooting and a parent whose child did not. Hundreds of students joined scattered protests across the country on Wednesday, including in Washington, Chicago and Pittsburgh. The Republican president, who has championed gun rights and was endorsed by the NRA during the 2016 campaign, said he would move quickly to tighten background checks for gun buyers and would consider raising the age for buying certain types of guns. He spoke at length about how armed teachers and security guards could frighten off potential school shooters and prevent student deaths. “If you had a teacher … who was adept at firearms, it could very well end the attack very quickly,” said Trump. The attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and educators were slain on Feb. 14 by a gunman with an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle in the second-deadliest shooting at a U.S. public school, has revived the long-running U.S. debate over gun rights. The U.S. Constitution protects the right of Americans to bear arms, a right fiercely defended by Republicans. But Trump has been under pressure to act. Some of the participants at the meeting indicated support for… [Read full story]
Teachers quiting their jobs in big cities is no longer a strange. However, it is really a worrying thing that the phenomenon has become more popular in rural areas. Why do they have to leave? The information that teacher Hanh filed for resignation from her job surprised all the teachers of the school, because she did not tell anyone before about the intention to give up job. While close colleagues tried to persuade Hanh to stay, she kept quiet and calm. It seemed that Hanh thought very carefully before she released the decision. Graduating from the biology faculty of a…... [read more]
Pakistani soldiers walks amidst the debris in a school a day after an attack by Taliban militants in Peshawar on Dec. 17. Syed Basit Naqvi was sitting at his desk when the principal at his army-run school in Pakistan rushed into the classroom and shouted for the guard to lock the door. As he did, three militants stormed in and started shooting. The guard dropped dead first, followed by other students hit by indiscriminate gunfire. The attackers then lined up the remaining schoolboys and started shooting them in the head one by one at point blank range. When they came…... [read more]
Devoted teachers help to educate Bana minority children in Ha Tay Commune (06-02-2007) Sixth graders attend a class in Ha Tay School in Gia Lai. Currently there are 740 Bana ethnic minority students studying at the school. — VNA/VNS Photo Sy Huynh GIA LAI — Ha Tay Commune, home of the Bana ethnic minority in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, received new school facilities in 1998 under funding from the Government's Programme 135, but the facilities are already overcrowded. In the current academic year, the school has 23 classes with 740 students. Students study at all levels of…... [read more]
The HCM City Education and Training Department (HETD) has announced it needs to recruit 304 teachers for primary schools. However, it is foreseeable that the recruitment plan is unfeasible. HETD looked for primary school teachers for the 2010-2011 school year several months ago. However, the number of teachers schools now have still cannot meet the expected demand, so on August 23 the department officially launched a new recruitment campaign. Sixteen districts in HCM City need to recruit new teachers, but Binh Chanh district lacks teachers the most. The recruitment announcement on the official website of HETD says the district needs…... [read more]
Country's leaders call on students, teachers as new school year begins (05-09-2005) Students of Binh Yen School on their first day of the new school year in the mountainous Tuyen Quang Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Dinh Na HA NOI — General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and State leaders have sent best wishes to teachers and the 22 million students starting classes today at the beginning of new school year 2005-06. In a meeting with teachers and students of the Tran Hung Dao Senior Secondary School in Ha Noi yesterday, Manh said the Party and State always see education as the…... [read more]
