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Authorities to fire teacher who threatened student HAVANA,
Cuba, March 8 (José Antonio Fornaris, Cuba Verdad / www.cubanet.org) -
Authorities at the "Gilberto Arocha" secondary school said a teacher
who, while reportedly drunk, threatened to kill a 15-year-old 10th grade student
last Wednesday would be fired. According to the student's mother, Juana
Mercedes Pedroso, her daughter Ana was on guard duty at the dorms Wednesday night
when a man who teaches computing at the school showed up, drunk, to take a mattress,
and when Anita prevented him from doing so, he told her: "I'm going to kill
you; I'm going to put an ice pick through your heart." Pedroso added
that the school's director had told her that the teacher had not shown up to work
after the incident, and that he would be fired. "The students have to take
turns standing guard duty at the dorms, because otherwise their things will be
stolen. That's why my daughter was there", said Pedroso. Ana lives
in Alamar, in East Havana, but goes to school far from home because in the city
of Havana proper there are no secondary schools. By government policy, all students
in grades 10 to 12 who wish to attend university must attend school in rural areas
far from home and, consequently, must live at the schools. Versión
original en español | 
