Third-graders' plot: Attack teacher

[Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0]

Third-graders' plot: Attack teacher

By Russ Bynum

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

04/02/2008

 

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 pupils 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 pupils were arrested on juvenile charges Tuesday, and a third arrest was expected. District Attorney Rick Currie said other pupils told investigators they didn't take the plot seriously or insisted they had decided not to participate.

 

Currie said the children are too young to be charged as adults, and probably too young to be sentenced to a youth detention center.

 

Police seized a steak knife, steel handcuffs, duct tape, electrical and transparent tape, ribbons and the paperweight from the pupils, Tanner said.

 

Currie said he decided to seek juvenile charges against two girls, ages 9 and 10, who brought the knife and paperweight and an 8-year-old boy who brought tape. He said all three pupils faced charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, and both girls were being charged with bringing weapons to school.

 

Nine children have been given discipline up to and including long-term suspension, said Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school system. She would not be more specific but said none of the children had been back to school since the case came to light.

 

The purported target is a veteran educator who teaches third-grade pupils with learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.

 

The scheme involved a division of roles, Tanner said. One child's job was to cover windows; another was supposed to clean up after the attack.

 

"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.

[Radgina 1]

fuck me that certainly beats the "auld" drawing pin on the chair trick !!!

[ewerk 31641]

They've been suspended? Fuck me but if planning to murder your teacher isn't grounds for expulsion then what is?

[Howay 12496]

Quite a well thought out plan for their age like

[Fop 1]

They've been suspended? Fuck me but if planning to murder your teacher isn't grounds for expulsion then what is?

 

Usually after the 3rd teacher murdered it becomes an option to have on the table.

[sweetleftpeg 0]

Teamwork, communication skills, excellent prep-work. They should be giving them NVQs.