Mexico honours school teacher
Internet video helps bring recognition to woman who helped her students amid clashes outside classroom.
Published On 30 May 2011
A school teacher in Mexico has been honoured after she put aside her own fears to calm her young students during a shootout.
Martha Rivera Alanis became an internet sensation after a video went online showing her leading children through a duck-and-cover drill amid the violence.
Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras reports from Mexico City.
Source: Al Jazeera