Nine-year-olds in U.S. plotted to tie up and hurt teacher
 

I first heard of this as a teaster on a local news show and I thought to myself that I had heard it wrong.
What is this world coming too?!?!?!?!?!
Nine-year-olds in U.S. plotted to tie up and hurt teacher
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Nine-year-olds at a school in the U.S. state of Georgia brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs and electrical tape to school in a plot to injure their teacher, authorities said on Tuesday.
Teachers at Center Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia, uncovered the plot on Friday when a pupil reported that a child in the third grade had brought a weapon into the school.
"The plan was to handcuff the teacher, put tape over her mouth and hit her over the head with the paperweight and possibly cut her," said Lt. Duane Caswell of Waycross police, adding that some students said the knife was simply there to cut the tape.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domes...e=domesticNews

On the news, it was also reported that each kid had an objective, including on the wipes up the blood...

I don't know what to do with these kids who think that way... One cannot really lock them up, you cannot beat them within an inch of their life...

But, you can take them to autopsy and make them wipe up the gunshot wounds... Make them do rounds all day...

Take them to the slaughterhouse to clean up after butchering the foodstuffs...

Apparently they learned hurting another human being some kind of way and were allowed to think that that thinking was okay...

I'm in disbelief. How could they dislike a teacher so much? If they were intelligent enough to come up with a plot that involved different roles and labor division, they are also intelligent enough to understand the consequences.

The principal seemed to be in denial. In an article in our paper, he was saying that the kids were in special ed classes but too intelligent to do that (hey mister, sounds like they were really going to do it) and that they were good kids. Maybe some of them were roped into it but it seems that there were a few bad apples in the bunch,

From the CNN update:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/01/....ap/index.html
"This is an isolated incident, an aberration. ... We have good kids," Center Principal Angie Coleman told the newspaper"
Tanner is the Chef of Police:

that's part of why I hated kids being labelled special ed....some of them aren't that 'special'...some of them just needs an @sswhuppin'....

i hope that more information is released. i find it alarming that 3rd graders were capable of orchestrating such an elaborate plan and one that was so evil. drawing a picture of the teacher as a devil or writing "i hate mrs. smith", but knives?

does anyone know if the kids were all 8 or 9 years old, or were some of them older?

just saw that the ages ranged from 8 to 10. wow!

oops. thanks jon!

I don't know...as appalling as this is, it's not really that surprising. Kids watch SO much TV now, with little to no supervision from their parents. I'm sure some kid saw something that inspired them to do this.

I know this is wrong. I know it. But when they were discribing it on the news, why was I cracking up. play handcuffs, a broken knife, duct tape. This seems like a scene from Our Gang. Sadly, why I should not have laughed...it was/is reality. But the sickness in me stills find it comical.

"You tie her up"
"But I only have my TMNT numchucks. I want to bash her scull in"
"My daddy bought me a bow and arrow set. I can shoot her through the eye"
"We can get away in my Escalade Power Weels. It is four wheel drive"
"I still have my handcuffs I got last birthday. I think I have a key. If not, I know how to unlock them to put them on her"
"Otay and don't forget that duck tape."
"Okay, it sounds like a plan. Tomorrow we bring the b*tch down."
"Yeah!!"

As "sick" as your posting maybe, what is even sicker is that the conversation between the kids may have been rather close to that.:(

heh....sick...read my screen name...does that bring visions of happy sunshine, poines and roses?

LOL

yes..I do have a sick twisted sense of humor....and I am also a really nice, easy going, laid back and friendly guy! ;)

This sounds suspiciously like an episode of MTV's show about high school pranks. There was one about a bunch of senior guys that taped their teacher to his chair, I can't remember all the details, but the guys actually spent a night in jail and almost got expelled before graduation.

The way MTV is these days, parents of kids under about 16 or so would probably be wise to "block" it so their young ones can't watch some of the crap they show in the afternoon & early evenings... (not blaming the OP incident directly on MTV, just wandered into a tangential thought of my own)

I agree. I know a "special ed" teacher who has had one child break her leg, another shove her down the steps.

I'm not going to pretend to know what to do with these kids, but something really has to give.

hijack - My parents didnt allow me to watch MTV when I was in high school - and that was '95-'99. Mom had a problem with the condom commericials, and the imposters body spray commercials that had the naked model with censor bars bleeping out her boobs and tush.