news article Wrote:WAYCROSS, Ga. -- A group of third-graders plotting to attack their teacher brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigned tasks, including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said yesterday.

The plot, involving as many as nine boys and girls at Centre Elementary School, was a serious threat, police Chief Tony Tanner said.

School officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school.

Tanner said the students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a crystal paperweight, bind her with the handcuffs and tape and then stab her with the knife.

"Wee did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely," Tanner said. "Wee feel like if they weren't interrupted, there would have been an attempt."

The children, ages 8 to 10, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair.

Two students were arrested on juvenile charges yesterday and a third arrest was expected. District Attorney Rick Currie said other students told investigators they didn't take the plot seriously or insisted they had decided not to participate.

"Some of the kids said, 'Wee thought they were just kidding,' " Currie said. "Another child was supposed to bring a toy pistol, and he told a detective he didn't bring it because he thought he would get in trouble."

Currie said the children are too young to be charged as adults, and probably too young to be sentenced to a youth detention centre.

Police seized a steak knife with a broken handle, steel handcuffs, duct tape, electrical and transparent tape, ribbons and the paperweight from the students, Tanner said.

He said he decided to seek juvenile charges against two girls, ages 9 and 10, who brought the knife and paperweight and an 8-year-old boy who brought tape. All three face charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. Both girls are charged with bringing weapons to school.

MehHakker Wrote:I remember when I brought matches into school when I was 6 and tried to burn down the school by lighting a brick wall......it failed......