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RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 03:14 PM Mar 2016

First-graders in an Alaskan school tried to poison a classmate using silica gel

FFS!!!!!!

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/firstgraders-in-an-alaskan-school-tried-to-poison-a-classmate-using-silica-gel/news-story/6b0748a22c484c205757e79e5cd62db3

AN ALASKA charter school suspended three first-grade girls who had plotted to kill their classmate, according to their principal.
The three girls planned to use silica gel packets, which are commonly found in pre-packaged food products to keep moisture away, to poison another student, KTUU reported.

Three students in the class were planning on using the silica gel packets (these are not actually poison, but the students believed they were) from their lunchtime seaweed to poison and kill another student, Winterberry Charter School Principal Shanna Mall reportedly wrote in an email to parents on March 22.

Another student heard about the plan and told school administrators, said Jennifer Castro, spokeswoman for the Anchorage Police Department.

“We’re grateful that that student was able to speak up and obviously at such a young age,” Ms Castro said. “The important lesson here is to really teach your kids if they hear something like this, something where someone intends to do harm to someone else, they should tell someone that they trust right away.”
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First-graders in an Alaskan school tried to poison a classmate using silica gel (Original Post) RKP5637 Mar 2016 OP
They should have pooled their allowances together and hired a Sicilian Katashi_itto Mar 2016 #1
! abelenkpe Mar 2016 #2
Um.... ProfessorGAC Mar 2016 #3
They're still young and learning! RKP5637 Mar 2016 #4
Here's kind of an amusing comment by a parent at their website... Blue_In_AK Mar 2016 #5
New Age Mysticism MattBaggins Mar 2016 #6
Amazing! Hmmmm, I do wonder what the curriculum is. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2016 #7
Waldorf schools are very liberal and nurturing. hedda_foil Mar 2016 #9
Three FIRST GRADE GIRLS!! hedda_foil Mar 2016 #8
1st grade Heathers!? Rex Mar 2016 #10
this is kinda sad nt steve2470 Mar 2016 #11

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
3. Um....
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 03:27 PM
Mar 2016

He's the sicilian and he ended up dead! That would not have been money well spent! Of course, this wasn't iocaine.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
5. Here's kind of an amusing comment by a parent at their website...
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 03:32 PM
Mar 2016

"It is the greatest school we have been part of. Parent imvolvement is very strong and it has a wonderful very supportive and involved community. The children are truly nurtured in their individual talents."

Individual talents like trying to poison a classmate?

This is a Waldorf charter school. I'm not familiar with that curriculum.

hedda_foil

(16,368 posts)
8. Three FIRST GRADE GIRLS!!
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 08:02 PM
Mar 2016

If you know any first grade girls, you know how little they are and that they aren't prone to the cliques and feuds.of middle schoolers. This is so bizzare.

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