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Nine-year-olds plotted to tie up, hurt teacher
Topic Started: Apr 2 2008, 10:39 AM (111 Views)
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Nine-year-olds plotted to tie up, hurt teacher

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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.

"It was a rather elaborate scheme for children of that age," he said.

The students spent a week planning the attack and planned to carry it out on the day they were caught, Caswell said.

Nine pupils in the grade, most of whom were 9 years old, have been disciplined and some were given long-term suspensions, said Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school district in the southeastern part of the state.

Caswell said police were also planning to charge three of the children in the juvenile court system with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and possession of a weapon on a school property.

I would be scared to death to teach in a public school system or have kids going through public school.

Schools are more and more becoming unsafe and violent environments.

Thank goodness this teacher was not harmed. These kids deserve to get the book thrown at them. Behavior like this can't be allowed to go by with just a slap on the wrist.

There is a picture of the paraphernalia that was going to be used by the kids (click on the article link). LINK
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They get younger and younger.

I'll bet you those are some scary third graders. I wouldn't put it past them.
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Apr 2 2008, 09:43 PM
They get younger and younger.

I'll bet you those are some scary third graders. I wouldn't put it past them.

No kidding.

I wonder if the media will be allowed to report who the criminals are. I don't think they should be protected from media scrutiny just because of their age. Not with a crime like this.
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