Alright, this was given to me to blog on, and when I read it I thought "Good One". I really don't remember third grade but I do know that if a teacher upset me I did not think "I'm gonna kill her". I also would not have followed the group that said let's all kill her!" When you read this you will laugh and shake your head. I do want you to do one thing though. Think about your some people you may know and think of they have kids that might fit this mold. Then make sure you keep your kids away from them, also you might not want to make them mad before they try and kill you!
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 by as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said Tuesday.
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 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner said.
They could be expelled, but a prosecutor said they are too young to be charged with a crime under Georgia law.
Tanner said school officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school.
Police seized a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape, electrical and transparent tape, ribbons and a crystal paperweight from the students, who apparently intended to use them against the teacher, Tanner said.
Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school system, said nine children had been given discipline up to and including long-term suspension. She would not be more specific. She said none of the children had been back to school since the case came to light.
The alleged target is a veteran educator who teaches third-grade students with a range of learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.
Tanner said the scheme involved a division of roles. One child's job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, he said. Another was supposed to clean up after the attack.
"We estimate between six to nine students were involved. ... 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.
The parents of the students have cooperated with investigators, who aren't allowed to question the children without their parents' or guardians' consent, he said. Authorities have withheld the children's names.
Police expected to forward the results of their investigation to prosecutors, Tanner said.
Children in Georgia can't be charged with a crime unless they are at least 13, District Attorney Rick Currie said.
Martin, told The Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville, Fla., that administrators would follow school system policy and state law in disciplining the students.
"From what I understand, they were considered pretty good kids," Martin said. "But we have to take this seriously, whether they were serious or not about carrying this through, and that's what we did."
Four mothers of other third-grade students at Center Elementary called for the immediate expulsion of the suspected plotters.
Stacy Carter and Deana Hiott both cited school system policy stating that any student who brings "anything reasonably considered to be a weapon" is to be expelled for at least the remainder of the school year.
"We don't want our children around them," Carter told the Times-Union. "The one with the knife could have stabbed my child or someone else's child at lunch or out on the playground."
"This is an isolated incident, an aberration. ... We have good kids," Center Principal Angie Coleman told the newspaper.
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This story is so not funny to me. It only underscores the decline of values and where we have gone horribly wrong in raising this generation of children. It wouldn't have been so bad if it had been one child, but it was a group!! And that we are talking a group of 3rd GRADERS makes me want to throw up!!
I remember 3rd grade vividly because my 3rd grade teacher became a huge role model for me. It is because of Dorothy Cooper Jones I am an AKA and aspired to be the best I could be. Not only did Mrs. Jones put my butt in time out (my desk was right next to hers on a regular basis), she actually paddled me! Yep, I received corporal punishment and never in a million years did I think I should kill her, let alone get some of my friends to agree and hatch a plot!! No, the paddling only made me not want to do whatever I needed not to get another paddling. Instead, I worried about what my punishment at home was going to be after Mrs. Jones told my mother!! The paddling and the dealing with my mother's punishment left me no time to think of other things!!
This generation of children has been raised to think no one is to chastise, reprimand or punish them in anyway. They feel only their parents (and for a lot of children, not even their parents) are to correct them. Laws and policies have been put in place that tells parents they only can go so far in how they punish their children. Couple that with the psycho BS that is spouted about reasoning with children and not harming their self esteems, you get the little monsters that feel justified in seeking retribution from a teacher who dare reprimand them! Horrors of horror, she treated a child like a what . . . child!! Absolutely amazing!
This story should be a wake up call to parents and society as a whole. If we continue in the way we are going, children will be ruling the world. In Matthew 19:14 it says ". . . For the Kingdon of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." – NLV. I'm sure Jesus wouldn't want this group inheriting the Kingdom!
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