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" Cops: 3rd-graders aimed to hurt teacher"
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Cops: 3rd-graders aimed to hurt teacher
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 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.
"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 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.
School officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school, Tanner said.
Police seized a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape, electrical and transparent tape, ribbons and a crystal paperweight from the students, who apparently intended to use them against the teacher, Tanner said.
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.
The parents of the students have cooperated 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.
Police expected to forward the results of their investigation to prosecutors, Tanner said.
Children in Georgia can't be charged with a crime unless they are at least 13, District Attorney Rick Currie said.
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 an(AP) — y 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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WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE WORLD!!!
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haha lil kids r pretty gangsta nowadays lol
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wow those kids should stop doing that!
thats craaaaaaazyyyyyy!:(
1st?
Why is there a pic of blindfolded Asians kids part of the story?
As a kindergarten teacher, I'd better watch my back! 5 year olds can be pretty harsh too!
what the fuck is this world turning into? kids are getting younger and younger with this shit. ppl are fucked up nowadays.
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absolutely unbelievable. what has this country come to?
What the F?
Pretty damn sad that these are THIRD GRADERS. What the hell is wrong with this world?
oh my god!!!
2nd to commit!!!!
1st! that fucking crazzy
Kids are just bad lately…
OMG AHHH thats so scary!!!
ummm 23rd???
FIRSTT!!
THAT IS HORRIBLE, I MEAN I HATE MY TEACHERS ALSO BUT I WOULD NEVER WANT TO HURT THEM LIKE THAT!
that is crazy! first
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dont quote that piece of shit newspaper
LMFAOOOOO
omg crazy kids.
america's running wild
yikes.
oh my god! this is terrible!
what is this effing world coming to?
Are they sure it wasn't show and tell day???
FIRST!! what a bunch of little brats, maybe if their parents flogged them they wouldnt have even bothered thinking of it. They should be watched their intire lives now, bet at least 5 of them will be murderers when they are older.
holy crap
thanks how they roll
why are you putting all of this crazy stuff up? and i'm reading all of it, lol
Wow, 3rd graders????!!!! What is the world coming too?
them kids need an ass-whuppin'. too bad no one will do it. little fucks.
What the hell are parents teaching their children these days?
Parents, get off your lazy asses and stop letting them watch so much goddamn TV. Give them some good child-oriented books, take them OUTSIDE, teach them to ride a bike, take them fishing, anything. But for the love of innocence, stop letting them witness violence.