Wednesday, April 02, 2008

8 year olds plot to kill teacher

This is startling. ABout 9 boys and girls in a Georgia Elementary School plotted to kill a teacher after that teacher disciplined one of the students. Officials confiscated a handful of items including a knife, handcuffs, and duct tape from the students. The article is here.

Now, these are special education students. Still, you wonder where they got the idea in their heads to come up with this plot. It's a serious question. I'm not blaming the parents, race, class, TV, movies, o their conditions . . . I really would like to know. These kids are 8 and 9 years old!

From the article:

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 any 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.


This is a tough situation. You don't want to over react. Yet, as a parent with an 8 year old daughter, I don't know that I would want these kids near my daughter either. What do you do with these kids?

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