Third-Graders Plotted Teacher Attack

[Cara.]

I think these kids showed more planning and preparedness than the Pentagon. They should all be made 5 star generals

 

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WAYCROSS, Ga. - A group of children ages 8 to 10 apparently were mad at their teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, authorities say.

 

That led the third-graders, as many as nine boys and girls, to plot an attack on the teacher at Center Elementary School in south Georgia.

 

Police Chief Tony Tanner said the students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a glass paperweight, bind her with handcuffs and duct tape and then stab her with a broken steak knife.

 

The scheme involved a division of roles, Tanner said. One child's job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, and another was supposed to clean up after the attack.

 

"We're not sure at this point in the investigation how many of the students actually knew the intent was to hurt the teacher," Tanner said.

 

School officials had alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had taken a weapon to school.

 

Tanner said the teacher told detectives the children weren't known as troublemakers.

 

"You can't dismiss it," Tanner said. "But because they are kids, they may have thought this was like a cartoon — we do whatever and then she stands up and she's OK. That's a hard call."

 

The purported target teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.

 

Two of the students were arrested on juvenile charges Tuesday and a third arrest was expected. District Attorney Rick Currie said other students told investigators they didn't take the plot seriously or insisted they had decided not to participate.

 

"Some of the kids said, `We thought they were just kidding,'" Currie said. "Another child was supposed to bring a toy pistol, and he told a detective he didn't bring it because he thought he would get in trouble."

 

Currie said the children are too young to be charged as adults, and probably too young to be sentenced to a youth detention center.

 

"We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely," Tanner said. "We feel like if they weren't interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don't know."

 

Currie said he decided to seek juvenile charges against two girls, ages 9 and 10, who brought the knife and paperweight and an 8-year-old boy who brought tape. He said they face charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, and both girls are being charged with taking weapons to school.

 

Nine children have been given discipline up to and including long-term suspension, said Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school system. She would not be more specific but said none of the children had been back to school since the case came to light.

 

School system policy says any student who brings "anything reasonably considered to be a weapon" is to be expelled for at least the remainder of the school year.

[Jacaylbaro]

The scheme involved a division of roles, Tanner said. One child's job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, and another was supposed to clean up after the attack.

[Cara.]

You understand these are 8 and 9 year old who were placed in a special ed class!

 

I think the regular ones must be getting away with their plots. People should look into unexplained teacher disappearances...

[STOIC]

Cara,

 

It was in the local evening news yesterday. These kids scared me -the thought of them coming up with such a flamboyant spite gesture for their teacher. Their unbridled plan makes me cringe how kids can be violent in this country!

[Geel_jire]

^ just what i was thinking this is scary.

 

times are changing kids arent what they used to be as little as 10 years ago

[Cara.]

Stoic, this surprises you? Didn't you read Lord of the Flies in high school?

 

That book is the reason I'm unfailingly polite to children. Kids, despite what others think, have all the violent impulses of adults but without the ability to think through to consequences. The only thing saving us all from a daily armageddon is that they're so puny.

 

EDIT: I'm positive we hated our 3rd grade teacher in Xamar too, the only thing that saved her is her ingenious divide-and-conquer technique. The possibility that, today, you could be picked kabir meant she got a daily stay of execution.

[-Lily-]

Well, playing violent games and watching violent movies doesn't help either. Surely, they would know that a knife is serious business though? Chilling indeed.

[cynical lady]

I remember in our primary school (in bongo land) there was a teachers black list and it was somewhat a tradition that they must be beaten up on graduation day….ahh the memories..

[Chimera]

A handicap kid once hit me with a chair, while i was playing flippo(pogs) with his normal brother. I hadn't done anything to him he just threw that thing at me, i wanted to hit him so badly but then i saw him making strange faces(i think he was laughing), i realized this kid probably doesn't know throwing a chair is f..ing painfull to the one it's projected

 

without a doubt if not interrupted the teacher would have been killed.

[Faarax-Brawn]

Arrest them lil bast*rds. Kids!

[Zafir]

^Mzee mambo.

[Faarax-Brawn]

Originally posted by Zafir:

^Mzee mambo.

Poa sana!,Shida iko wapi?

[Zafir]

^taratibu basi, one step at a time waa ku sidee?

[sheherazade]

where were these kids when I was nine? I had a teacher I wanted dead. Nothing like this occurred to me though; just kept wishing she'd drop dead.

[J.Lee]

I'm shocked that they charged the kids. They should've taken into account their mental health.

 

Lakiinse, they planned the attack because she scolded them? I wonder what they would've done if she gave them detention...