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Third graders plan attack on teacher

Posted : 4/2/2008 9:38:24 AM

Cops: 3rd-graders aimed to hurt teacher

By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 46 minutes ago

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.

I am simultanously freaked out by the planning and impressed at the way they divided up the tasks---perhaps an unintended consequence of "cooperative learning" and group projects...

MORE HERE"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080402/ap_on_re_us/children_s_plot_15

SalemsMom

Posted : 4/2/2008 9:49:37 AM

You have to wonder what is going on with kids.

There is this too where a 1st grader brought loaded handguns to school. A good friend of mine if a teacher at this school. It's scary stuff. http://www.wbaltv.com/news/15760763/detail.html

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Posted : 4/2/2008 10:04:50 AM

Lordy. I'd hate to be around those kids when they get to Jr. High age.

Joyce

sl2crmeg

Posted : 4/2/2008 10:05:18 AM

Oh man, that's really frightening, the way they split up 'tasks'.

TheDogHouseBCMPD

Posted : 4/2/2008 10:20:23 AM

Things like this make me really worry about the future.

Sera_J

Posted : 4/2/2008 10:57:13 AM

Shocking. Where do these kids learn this?!

It makes you wonder if TV is doing it. Although there are about 10 million other 9 year olds watching TV and have not plotted to attack their teacher...!

Ugh. Horrifying.

gradyupmybutt

Posted : 4/2/2008 12:35:05 PM

Wow, just wow. This is terrifying.

huskymom

Posted : 4/2/2008 1:16:03 PM

I honestly think its just the next evolution of the kids that say things like,"If you spank me, I'll just call Children's Aid and they will throw you in jail for Child Abuse." Not that I advocate beating children, but taking a parents right to make moral decisions about the way they raise their kids, and making children think that any sort of punishment is against the law is IMO, hurting kids more than helping them.

Liv

Posted : 4/2/2008 1:47:26 PM

huskymom
I honestly think its just the next evolution of the kids that say things like,"If you spank me, I'll just call Children's Aid and they will throw you in jail for Child Abuse." Not that I advocate beating children, but taking a parents right to make moral decisions about the way they raise their kids, and making children think that any sort of punishment is against the law is IMO, hurting kids more than helping them.

I agree 100% with you. I'm sorry but my niece finds it laughable when she gets "time out", and she is a HUGE brat. She's never been punished in her life other than "time-out" which i really think is ineffective. Seriously I don't agree with beating your kids or anything, but sometimes I think its okay to give them swat on the butt.

mrv

Posted : 4/3/2008 6:19:44 AM

The outcome of "marginal" parenting. The parents offer food, shelter, clothing etc. but discipline (which incidently means to teach not to punish physically) is a joke. I would think more than 60% of my case load is directly do to or influenced by marginal parenting.

tashakota

Posted : 4/3/2008 8:06:04 AM

SalemsMom
You have to wonder what is going on with kids.

There is this too where a 1st grader brought loaded handguns to school. A good friend of mine if a teacher at this school. It's scary stuff. http://www.wbaltv.com/news/15760763/detail.html

One was a .40 caliber! I can just barely aim one accurately and the kick on those suckers is huge! I sure hope that uncle gets in trouble for leaving two fully loaded guns in reach of a 1st grader! My parents didn't let us "play guns" as kids because they said it's not nice to pretend to shoot someone.

That other article, she was a teacher of developmentally disabled children. So these were DD children plotting this? They couldn't be that far behind their peers....

mrv

Posted : 4/3/2008 11:31:42 AM

No but they can be set up by other kids every easily.

georgie4682

Posted : 4/3/2008 6:30:35 PM

SalemsMom
You have to wonder what is going on with kids.

As a third grade teacher myself, I wonder this everyday...

It's very sad.

Chuffy

Posted : 4/4/2008 6:16:23 PM

huskymom
I honestly think its just the next evolution of the kids that say things like,"If you spank me, I'll just call Children's Aid and they will throw you in jail for Child Abuse." Not that I advocate beating children, but taking a parents right to make moral decisions about the way they raise their kids, and making children think that any sort of punishment is against the law is IMO, hurting kids more than helping them.

When we were kids I knoew a boy one year older than me who pretty much said this ^ ^ to both his step parents. And yes he almost stabbed someone. He grabbed something sharp and lashed out and it was only sheer luck that they stepped aside and it went through the door instad of a stomach. And I do think it's connected. Parents don't feel free to impose consequences on their kids and so you have kids who don't think about consequences because they never HAd to. It's not healthy.

Chuffy

Posted : 4/4/2008 6:20:04 PM

Liv
huskymom
I honestly think its just the next evolution of the kids that say things like,"If you spank me, I'll just call Children's Aid and they will throw you in jail for Child Abuse." Not that I advocate beating children, but taking a parents right to make moral decisions about the way they raise their kids, and making children think that any sort of punishment is against the law is IMO, hurting kids more than helping them.

I agree 100% with you. I'm sorry but my niece finds it laughable when she gets "time out", and she is a HUGE brat. She's never been punished in her life other than "time-out" which i really think is ineffective. Seriously I don't agree with beating your kids or anything, but sometimes I think its okay to give them swat on the butt.

*wrinkles nose skeptically*

Yeah but if you used THAT all the time that would be ineffective too. And then you'd have to "swat" harder to get your point across. There's something else missing there IMO, not just "punishment".