More children amok!

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."

"This is an isolated incident, an aberration. ... We have good kids," Center Principal Angie Coleman told the newspaper.

Why do people persist in "being shocked" that this nation’s children are out of control?  I wonder why kids are out of control.  Any parent that dares to be "violent toward their children" and spank the little misbehaving fuckers faces jail time.  We have a society that has been told, by whiney cunt liberals, that only primitive people spank children.  Anyone that does is a retrograde to the horrors on the past. 

Yeah, the past where 8 and 9 year olds didn’t attempt complex assault conspiracies including restraints, weapons, counter-surveillance, and evidence removal.  The past where teachers were not routinely assaulted in schools.  I just googled "teacher assaulted in school" and got 1,160,000 returns.  The number one return was about a teacher in Philadelphia that had his neck broken by two students after he confiscated an I-pod in class.  Yeah, these wonderful social theories have certainly made society better and safer by making kids safe from corporal punishment.

Sure, it could be argued that the two high schoolers did not mean to break the teacher’s neck, and it could be argued that maybe Our Gang would have decided not to attack the teacher.  This is not really the point.  These are not inner city kids.  This is Waycross, not Atlanta.  In the 2000 census, Waycross had a population of just over 15,000.  Hell, that’s barely a large town.

When I was 9, I could have hatched a complex plot like this.  I was an unruly little fucker.  The fact is, I would have never even considered it.  Why?  Dad would have beaten the Honey Bunches O’ Dogshit out of me for even talking about it.  All my friends would have caught a beating also.  We knew what happened when we crossed the line.  We were experts at running up to the line and wandering away from it unscathed, but crossing it?  Not often.  Murder plots against teachers with accomplices and weaponry?  Way, way over the line.

I’m not talking child abuse here.  My dad would have taken a bullet for me and counted it a good deal.  He believed firmly that the best way he could help me was to make me understand, early and often, that my actions had consequences.  By making me aware of the consequences, he made me aware of responsibility.  He gave me a moral code that had nothing to do with gods or faith.  There is the Right Thing To Do, and there is the Wrong Thing to Do.  There are consequences for actions and inactions.  This life lesson kept me alive during the dark years of my youth and early adult years.  A few spankings as a child was a tiny price to pay.

Parents, and you critters that will be parents in the future (although, I cringe at the thought of some of you losers spawning,) listen up.  I don’t give a Righteous Rat’s Ass what modern social theory says.  I am a member of this society, and I demand that you meet your obligation to our society.

Beat the crap out of your kids when they misbehave. 

Thank you.