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

jon1856 · #1 04-02-2008, 12:21 AM

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

AKA_Monet · #2 04-02-2008, 02:00 AM

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...

Scandia · #3 04-02-2008, 07:07 AM

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.

carnation · #4 04-02-2008, 07:35 AM

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,

jon1856 · #5 04-02-2008, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by carnation

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:

DaemonSeid · #6 04-02-2008, 08:48 AM

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'....

FSUZeta · #7 04-02-2008, 09:01 AM

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?

honeychile · #8 04-02-2008, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

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 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.

RU OX Alum · #9 04-02-2008, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

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'....

so do some people in the "normal" class

jon1856 · #10 04-02-2008, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

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,

Seems as if a few people are either in denial or just can not get thieir heads around this. Or perhaps they could be correct

:
Experts dubious of Ga. 3rd-grader plot
WAYCROSS, Ga. - Allegations that third-graders hatched an elaborate plot to knock out, handcuff and stab their teacher were met with shock by neighbors and with doubt by psychiatry experts who said it is unlikely that children that young seriously intended to hurt anyone.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/...hildren_s_plot
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23905909/

Senusret I · #11 04-02-2008, 09:07 PM

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......with doubt by psychiatry experts who said it is unlikely that children that young seriously intended to hurt anyone.

Sheeeeeeeeit.

Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was beat up by a Kindergartener?

DaemonSeid · #12 04-03-2008, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Senusret I

Sheeeeeeeeit.

Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was beat up by a Kindergartener?

that kindergartener probably belonged in 6th grade....

RU OX Alum · #13 04-02-2008, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Scandia

I'm in disbelief. How could they dislike a teacher so much? .

maybe she had it coming

#14 04-02-2008, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

maybe she had it coming

No kidding.

If the kids' teacher was anything like my 4th Grade teacher, I don't blame em. Miss Rowley was Satan's sister.

Educatingblue · #15 04-02-2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Scandia

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.

I teach and there is definitely something wrong with the students who are coming through the educational system now. I guess they figured if she lived, momma would just go to the school and curse her out and deny any wrong doing on their child's behalf.