Cops: 3rd-graders aimed to hurt teacher

You know, I'm not real big on corporal punishment because I really don't think you can beat sense into kids but there needs to be some serious punishing going on here. Punishment and consequences and maybe a healthy dose of real counseling, not the "feel-good-about-yourself-even-if-you know you're misbehaving" kind of counseling.

By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Writer

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 children, ages 8 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair...

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