Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Third Graders Plot Revenge Against Teacher

From First Coast News and the Today Show:

The children hatched a careful plan, each with a specific job. Their tools included handcuffs, tape, a kitchen knife and a paperweight. According to the Today Show, the goal was to distract her, tie her up, then hurt her. Why all of the anger and hubbub? The Today Show reported that the catalyst came when the teacher disciplined one of the nine for standing on his or her chair.

The plot involved nine children in all. Three of which have been identified as the ringleaders.

All nine were suspended
The three leaders face charges in juvee

It’s hard to say what is really going on here without knowing the children, the families, and the school culture. Did the children craft a plan after one isolated incident, or is there a history? Do the children have problems with violence? How is it that nine children can be involved in such an incident? That is a large number of children to be that angry. There must be more to the story.

3 comments:

Sky Girl said...

(Shakes head sadly)Sad and disturbing all the way around.

Anonymous said...

You know, I'm really not surprised at all. I have been subjected to awful teachers for years and I've thought about harming one or two of them myself. I think the teacher must have been a pretty horrible person to make nine children want to attack him or her.

Anonymous said...

GO KIDS! GET YOUR REVENGE ON THE TEACHERS THAT WERE ABNORMALLY HORRIBLE TO YOU! but not for one thing, only if they harrased you alot. like when i was in kindie, we were singing Old McDonald Had a Farm, when i yawned, and the teacher yelled at me for not singing properly. GRRRRRRRRR