3rd graders plan to jump teacher and torture her

LORD_VOLDEMORT · Apr 2, 2008

WAYCROSS, Ga. - A group of children ages 8 to 10 apparently were mad at their teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, authorities say.

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That led the third-graders, as many as nine boys and girls, to plot an attack on the teacher at Center Elementary School in south Georgia.

Police Chief Tony Tanner said the students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a glass paperweight, bind her with handcuffs and duct tape and then stab her with a broken steak knife.

The scheme involved a division of roles, Tanner said. One child's job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, and 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.

School officials had alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had taken a weapon to school.

Tanner said the teacher told detectives the children 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 purported target teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents 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 center.

"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."

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 they face charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, and both girls are being charged with taking 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.

School system policy says any student who brings "anything reasonably considered to be a weapon" is to be expelled for at least the remainder of the school year.
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Orleander · Apr 2, 2008

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=79303&highlight=graders

all ready been posted.
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draqon · Apr 2, 2008

These students should be jailed for at least 10 years or they should be give sentences of public work as cleaning restrooms.

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sowhatifit'sdark · Apr 2, 2008

I think, perhaps, the students should be carefully questioned about what made them consider this action, why they thought it was justified, what stopped them from considering it with other teachers, what they thought would happen later, after she was released or dead. I mean really get in there so that after the adults leave the room with the kids both groups really understand what led to that choice. I have a sense that this will happen, to some sloppy degree or other. but I think that discussion is vastly more important that the sentences and punishments that follow. I mean really flesh that one out.

It could lead to all sorts of information:

"that's what Dad does to Mom when she yells at him"
"jeez I never thought about after"
"she touched Jimmy's dick and promised to be nice to us if we didn't tell'
'it worked in that movie'

Whatever the answers are will have at least wider implications than this group of kids and might have specific relevence to causes.

draqon · Apr 2, 2008

sowhatifit'sdark said: ↑

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"she touched Jimmy's dick and promised to be nice to us if we didn't tell'

...specific relevence to causes.
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Bells · Apr 3, 2008

Since the topic of this thread already exists in Ethics, Morality & Justice, I shall be closing this particular thread.

Merci!

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