Video of Kindergarten Teacher singing Barney to students amid drug cartel gunfire goes viral

A section of the video. Photo credit: CBS News

Marta Rivera Alanis, a 33-year-old kindergarten teacher and mother of two, received a special recognition from local Mexican authorities for her heroic action calming her 15 pre-school-age students during a gun battle which raged outside her classroom Friday.

The incident occurred Friday at a school in Monterrey, 140 miles south of the Texas border and once one of the safest, most prosperous cities in Mexico.

But in recent years, drug traffickers have been settling into Monterrey’s posh neighborhoods, changing the tranquility of the city.

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4 Comments

  1. @$cafee
    May 31, 2011

    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz now i learn my abc tell me waht u tink of me

    • Nudibranch
      June 10, 2011

      I think you never learned to spell.

  2. Bulletless
    May 31, 2011

    This was such smart thinking and initiative on the teacher’s part. It may have saved the lives of those children. Well done. That was real tact.

  3. Apache
    May 30, 2011

    Parents and students,more respect towards people in the teaching proffession.GREAT JOB TEACHER.JAH GUIDE OVER U

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