WAYCROSS, Ga. - A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife [above], 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... 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. A prosecutor said they are too young to be charged with a crime under Georgia law...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.
This story was on NPR while I was driving around for errands today, is all over the 'net and will likely be dominant on network news tonight. Almost as depressing as the original story is the nature of the comments written on the various websites, as for example -
"maybe these kids are just the starting of thugs when they get older, if i was there parents they get the hell beat out of them the old fashion waybelt or a swich broken off a fern bush! thrid graders ant that young not to punish the hell out of em."
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