3rd Graders plot to attack teacher

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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 eight 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 centre.

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

Currie said he decided to seek juvenile charges against two girls, ages nine and 10, who brought the knife and paperweight and an eight-year-old boy who brought tape. He said all three students 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 students 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 so no one could see outside, he said. 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.

He said the teacher told detectives the children involved weren't known as troublemakers.

"You can't dismiss it," Tanner said. "But because they are kids, they may have thought this was like a cartoon - we do whatever and then she stands up and she's OK. That's a hard call."

The parents of the students have co-operated 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.

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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Dude. That is SICK.

I loved my third grade teacher anyway.
 
Dude. O_O That is seriously messed up. Reminds me of the beginning of the school year where some kid at my school brought a knife to school and threatened to kill people.
 
When I was in second grade, a kid brought a pocket knife to school. Later the same kid pulled his pants down in the coat room and beat another kid up. Needless to say, he got expelled.
 
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.
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The fact they plotted it out like that scares the crap out of me. Over being told off for standing on a chair?
 
Dude, i swear those kids will have no friends for the rest of their life.
 
What gets me is the fact that they planned out what each of them were going to do. But what baffles me is where the hell do they get this stuff from. Knives, tape, handcuffs, we may have a little assasination guild/mafia on our hands
 
I'm just hoping Jack Thompson doesn't jump on this one. It's election season and if they have so much as a Wii in their house... it'll be that time again.
 
Oh wow.

KIDS ARE EVIL! But I am one.

O-O
 
How sick. A little baby mafia. I say that they're in jail by 17. In all seriousness, why would they come up with a plan like that? And who lets third graders handle knives?
 
Damn. These kids are freaking evil. Knock her out with a paperweight, handcuff her, then stab her? When did they organize this?
 
WTF o____0

I couldn't even imagine doing that as a kid... well I can't imagine doing that now.
 
These kids are stupid.

Mostly because they got caught.
 
As much as I hated my third grade teacher...that just plain freaky. Sadly I must admit, such a plan is very simple to think up...but in third grade? Talk about murders in training. Hopefully it was all something none of them would be able to pull through and they brought the supplies just to be 'cool', but I doubt it.

What can we say? My generation is scary.
 
The Generation who was taken up in war, and vilont cartoons, never tryed this, nor did Generation X, but of course, in a world whare 3erd graders try to kill a teacher, that is unbleivable.
 
Maybe its lack of violent cartoons that makes them do this? Maybe we need a daily dose of violence or something? They need to air Tom and Jerry more, maybe then it will end...
 
Personally, I think the school was too light on their punishment. What's long-term suspension going to do? Allow them more time to think of better ways to kill their teacher? Over something so inane as getting scolded for standing over a chair. It makes you wonder how and why do they know about hostage situations?
 
It was a crap punishment I must say, people let kids get away with murder... litteraly >.<
 
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