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This sounds like something out of the Hitchcock episode of South Park.
Weapons and tools?
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=106016
Some analysis and details?
Georgia Third Graders don't play: Murder plot uncovered
By M&C Bizarre Apr 1, 2008, 15:28 GMT
Things are tough in Waycross Georgia, just ask the teachers.
An elementary school murder plot has been uncovered. Nine third grade students suspended at Center Elementary in Waycross for an alleged plot to attack their teacher.
"This plot was uncovered at the point that something dangerous was brought to the school," says Lt. Dwayne Caswell with Waycross Police.
Police say the students planned to harm their teacher Friday morning. They even brought potential weapons from home to carry out the plan.
"They had a broken steak knife, a crystal paper weight, toy handcuffs, several items and tape and stuff," says Lt. Caswell.
First Coast News reports that Ware County School officials say a classmate told the principal about one of the students bringing a weapon to school. The discovery was later made that more students were in on the plot. The school says they are coming down hard on the delinquents.
"Some might say 'They were young and in the third grade and how serious could it be?', but anytime our students' safety or our teachers' safety is compromised we obviously have to take that very seriously," says Theresa Martin with Ware County Schools.
"We continue to do what we always do which is work to make our students aware that this is not appropriate and we ask our parents to help us. The whole saying that it takes a village to raise a child is very appropriate at this time," says Martin.
Police say no criminal charges will be brought forth against the students. The District Attorney is handling the case and students will most likely face juvenile charges of Unruly Child.
Weapons and tools?
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=106016
Some analysis and details?
Murder Plot at Center Elementary in Georgia: 3rd Graders vs. Experts
By Jon Shanks
Apr 3, 2008
What would we do without experts? A plot was unveiled by police acting on a tip that some very young 3rd grade students from Center Elementary in Waycross, Georgia were plotting to kill their teacher. They had a detailed plan, each student would have a particular chore in the attack, and they had gathered the items necessary to carry out the horrific plot.
Students brought a crystal paperweight to crack into the skull of the teacher and one was supposed to cover the window with paper to keep prying eyes of witnesses out. Police also say that they recovered steak knife with a broken handle, steel handcuffs and other items that were to be used in the plan.
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Now here come the experts. A bunch of physiatrists are chiming in and saying that even though the plan was thought out very well and the kids had the tools, they would likely not have fallowed through with the attack. Are they kidding? Nope.
An article from the Associated press cites Dr. Louis Kraus, a child psychiatry expert at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and he says that the kids may have started the attacks but likely would have never completed it. "The reality is it is highly unlikely they would have been successful at this," Kraus said. "Even if it had begun, it's unclear whether they actually would have followed through with it."
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Thanks for playing doctor. If you were a teacher would you bet your life on this doctor's analysis? The reactions to this have been mostly shock and many have wondered what exactly these kids parents have been doing while raising their kids, but other than a few "experts" that have never even treated these kids, few are saying that they don't believe they would have gone through with the plot.