3rd-Graders Accused Of Plot To Hurt Teacher

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: News4 in Jacksonsville, Florida

WAYCROSS, Ga. -- As many as nine third-grade students got together and plotted to harm their teacher, even going so far as to bring handcuffs and a knife to school, Waycross police said.

Martin said the plot was uncovered when one student saw a knife in the backpack of another student.

"It's shocking that they would think of this at their young age. I think that is probably the most shocking part for all of us," Martin said.

In addition to the knife being found, the school officials said other students had duct tape, handcuffs, ribbon and a heavy crystal paperweight.

Read more: http://www.news4jax.com/news/15755299/detail.html

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OK, our violence-ladden culture is getting out of hand. 8 and 9 year-olds planning and plotting to 'hurt' their teacher over a time out?

Just saw this one as well: "Police: First-Grader Brought Loaded Handguns To School" - RANDALLSTOWN, Md

"One of the guns was a 9 mm Kahr handgun, and the gun in the boy's locker was a .40-caliber Glock handgun, according to investigators."

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/15760763/detail.html



Edited to add second story.

[last1standing]

1. It's the Golden Rule of America. Might Makes Right!

Our media glamorizes torture and murder while every attempt to use diplomacy is shown to fail. Even our pResident has pushed this rule with our invasion of Iraq and future Iran invasion.

[Mike Daniels]

2. I'd blame popular culture first

Music, movies and television are more likely to be influencing 1st and 3rd graders than anything else.

[last1standing]

3. I blame them all equally.

Media, including popular culture, hypes it but so do parents who have learned it from their youth. These two factions combine to elect politicians who help legitimize it. Vicious circle, really.

[mikelgb]

4. pop-culture feeds off reality

[Chulanowa]

13. Please.

Those things are the product of society, not the cause of it.

The main influence on a child at this age is not cartoons. It's not comic books or music or any of that. It's their parents. And hten the parents look around for something to blame, because as we know all parents are flawlessly perfect and suited to raising children, so it MUST be Bugs Bunny!

[redqueen]

14. I'd say their parents are more likely to be influencing kids than anything else. (nt)

[slackmaster]

5. Gulag for all of the little creeps

[zonmoy]

6. seems that if this is true then the third graders learned that

conspirators win. but that is only true when the conspirators hold the reigns of power by controlling all the political parties and options.

[On the Road]

7. I Don't Know, I Was Pretty Young When I Heard the Song

"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school.
We have tortured all the teachers, we have broken every rule,
We are marching to the office to destroy the principal..."

[TomInTib]

8. By the way...

This may be slightly off- subject, but we were listening to The Last Waltz while driving around Lake Tahoe yesterday.

That album cover in your post reminded me of that.

Anyway...

[mcscajun]

24. Ah, yes...

...the Classics. :rofl: I haven't heard (or thought of) that one in years!

Of course, we laughed when we sang that...we didn't make plots to do it. It was all about blowing off steam and we knew it. I went to a Catholic grammar school in the late 50s-early 60s, and we were raised on fear and guilt. Even thumbtacks on a chair would have been Unthinkable by us.

These kids scare me. :scared:

[On the Road]

27. I Found That I Was Unfamiliar with the Best Version, Though

"I bopped her on the bean with a rotten tangerine" is not nearly as strong as "I nailed her at the door with a smokin' 44."

[mcscajun]

28. I'm with you; I'd never heard the .44 version.

Yikes.

[Name removed]

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[Ordr]

10. Stupid little fucks.

[libnnc]

11. Our plan in 6th grade involved thumb tacks and superglue.

Knives? Handcuffs? :scared:

Some angry kids out there.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. ATTENTION CLUELESS PARENTS

"24" and "Dexter" are not appropriate viewing options for your children. Parenting requires that you actually pay attention to what your children are doing.

[redqueen]

15. That kind of parent doesn't deserve to call themselves a parent. (nt)

[DeSwiss]

16. Cops: 3rd-graders Aimed To Hurt Teacher

Source: Associated Press

Cops: 3rd-graders Aimed To Hurt Teacher

By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Writer
1 minute ago

WAYCROSS, Ga. - A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.

The plot involving as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said. School officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school. Tanner said the students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a crystal paperweight, bind her with the handcuffs and tape and then stab her with the knife.

"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." The children, ages 8 to 10, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner 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.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_re_us/children_s_plot

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[Berry Cool]

17. So, what gives kids this young these elaborately violent ideas?

The neighborhoods they live in? TV? What?

I mean, it sounds so...organized.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. Do we blame YouTube? Or iPods? n/t

[DRoseDARs]

21. Blame Canada, with their beady little eyes, their flapping heads so full of lies! n/t

[DeSwiss]

23. Extraordinary rendition....

....torture, unwarranted eavesdropping, voter fraud, lying public officials.

- Seems more like these kids are just emulating their elders...

[medeak]

18. to be arrested for "unruly behavior"

http://www.wjhnews.com/

[ColbertWatcher]

19. Violence always increases during war. n/t

[Zhade]

22. Woah. My grandparents live there. How odd.

Crazy world.

[JFN1]

25. Well, why not? The President did it in Iraq

I've always felt that leadership is 'top-down' and thus the very character of our government, embodied in the men and women we 'elect' to office, have a much stronger influence on our culture than we sanction, or maybe even realize.

[nolabels]

29. Violence is the new way the world solves it's issues

errrrrrr...........or was that the old way :shrug:

[Shipwack]

26. I know that school...

::sigh::

I used to volunteer there (it was the adopted school of my submarine), in fact.

Waycross is a poor town. Not sure if that's here or there.

I had to stop going there because it broke my heart to see those kids but not be able to be there consistently there to help them.

One time I was doing some sort of reading game with this little girl, and I told her "Wow, you're a smart girl!"

Her eyes got big and she just looked at me. "Hasn't anyone ever told you that before?" I asked her.

She just smiled, looked down at her feet and shook her head.

When it was time for me to go she ran over and gave me the biggest hug you could imagine, then ran off.

::sigh::

A bunch of screwed up kids from screwed up families in a screwed-over town. :/