VIDEO: Teacher Leads Singalong Through Gun Battle

Tuesday, 31 May 2011 | by Pat's Picks

You know you’ve got a really good teacher when she can keep her kids focused during a shootout. The LA Times says a Mexican elementary school teacher has come into the spotlight after a video she posted on Facebook went viral. It shows her singing a Barney and Friends song to her students while they lie on the floor waiting for a gun fight outside to die down.

The video was taken in Monterrey last week, a city that’s recently been caught up in a swirl of drug violence as the Zeta and Gulf cartels battle for turf. The teacher was honored for her “outstanding civic courage” at a ceremony yesterday. She says her only thought was to distract her kids from the noise outside.