13 teachers forced to flee Medellin schools just this month

13 teachers forced to flee Medellin schools just this month
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Aug 11, 2015

Thirteen teachers have been forced to leave their Medellin teaching jobs and in some cases flee the city in the first ten days of August alone after receiving death threats.

The last victim is a high school teacher in the western 8th District of the city who reportedly was approached by two men on motorbikes and given 12 hours to abandon the city or be killed.

Some 1,500 children have been unable to attend school in the nearby Caicedo neighborhood since last week after ongoing death threats targeting eight teachers forced the director to close the school doors. Two security guards at the school subsequently quit their jobs after also receiving death threats.

Parents and children on Monday marched through the neighborhood carrying signs in protest of the threats that have left their children temporarily without education.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/13-teachers-forced-to-flee-medellin-schools-just-this-month/