Since 3 teachers are needed for 70 children and there are 14700 children, multiply 14700 by 3. The answer (44100) can then be divided by 70 which will get you 630. They have 612 teachers so subtract 612 from 630. The difference is 18 so they need 18 teachers.
Reverse discrimination is basically the practice of minority groups being unfair or discriminating against majority groups. I think that it is completely possible to protect the rights of minority groups while preventing reverse discrimination because we can all just come together as people instead of different races etc... we should all be judged and given based on merit since we are all humans and this would of course work if nobody cared at all about minority or majority or race or sex or whatever...
The author thinks it was important for the reader to know that the Taliban is not part of Pakisran's government so that the reader understands that the Taliban's actions are not approved nor stopped by the government.
Just give them a time line about the past idiot