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D'z Nutz
04-02-2008, 09:29 AM
This would be something to see in like a movie, but in real life...? What the fuck?!

It's not a tumah!!
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j79/JoeyTapes/KindergardenCop16.jpg

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080402/ap_on_re_us/children_s_plot;_ylt=Aktwly37_vYqeGFRqUATUAADW7oF


Cops: 3rd-graders plotted teacher attack

By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

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.

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.

Eleanor
04-02-2008, 09:35 AM
April fools? :confused:

2002civic
04-02-2008, 10:01 AM
^^i hope so but doubt it, it's scary what kids do or think of doing now-a-days

98type_r
04-02-2008, 10:02 AM
nope, this is real, some of them even got arrested.

Antonito
04-02-2008, 10:11 AM
It's sad that I can't really blame the authorities for at least giving this serious attention. The part of me that has hope for humanity is saying "oh come on, they're just messing around (right?)" but the realist in me has to wonder if they are going to do psych evaluations and find out that a few of these kids are demented and would have gladly stabbed her...

01RedDX
04-02-2008, 10:18 AM
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Rat Fink
04-02-2008, 10:20 AM
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Aleks
04-02-2008, 10:24 AM
IB4USONlY comments.

Xtrema
04-02-2008, 10:25 AM
Watch too many eps of Sopranos.

93accord
04-02-2008, 10:28 AM
only in america:rofl:

Antonito
04-02-2008, 10:33 AM
The purported target teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said

Ah, on the second read, this pops out like a sore thumb. They might have scientific names for it these days, but I think we all remember the group of "special" kids in our grades....

GQBalla
04-02-2008, 10:44 AM
werd ^^^

but even though that is still fucked up they are in grade 3

hoamic11
04-02-2008, 12:12 PM
holy crap, what the heck is going on in this world?

BerserkerCatSplat
04-02-2008, 12:17 PM
Originally posted by 01RedDX
Haha they even had a kid assigned to cleaning up the blood.

Hey, I'll give them credit for being organized. :rofl:

97'Scort
04-02-2008, 12:21 PM
In spite of this being a horrible thing to happen, both to these kids and the teacher, I find it amazing that a class of ADD 3rd graders managed to plan this out so thoroughly without getting distracted by something shiny.

topmade
04-02-2008, 12:36 PM
Really messed up. Would be even more fucked up if they actually went through with it and succeeded :eek:

Antonito
04-02-2008, 01:46 PM
Originally posted by 97'Scort
In spite of this being a horrible thing to happen, both to these kids and the teacher, I find it amazing that a class of ADD 3rd graders managed to plan this out so thoroughly without getting distracted by something shiny.

If there's one thing that will keep a hyperactive weirdo enthralled, it's violence.

TomcoPDR
04-02-2008, 04:00 PM
What a freakin' crazy world

snowboard
04-02-2008, 04:04 PM
Originally posted by Antonito


If there's one thing that will keep a hyperactive weirdo enthralled, it's violence.

too true.

retro-steve
04-02-2008, 04:17 PM
This is what happens when you don't beat your kids enough...stupid yuppie parenting tactics! :banghead:

ZorroAMG
04-05-2008, 11:22 AM
Originally posted by Aleks
IB4USONLY comments.



Originally posted by 93accord
only in america:rofl:




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