Education minister suggests giving teachers protected persons status

Education Minister Petr Gazdík says he is not ruling out the possibility of teachers receiving the status of protected persons. Mr Gazdík said on Friday that he intends to discuss the question with the government’s coalition partners and members of the education committee in the Chamber of Deputies once the murder of a teacher in Prague, which took place earlier this week, is examined thoroughly.

It is not the first time that an education minister has brought up the subject. In 2014, Social Democrat Marcel Chládek proposed the same idea after an attack on teachers in the Králíky education facility.