Sheltered

Third Graders Plot to Kill Teacher: Center Elementary Students Busted
By Jo Anne WayApr 3, 2008

A group of third-graders at Center Elementary School in south Georgia in Atlanta hatched an elaborate plot to kill their teacher, but the plan was found out and foiled last Friday when another student reported that a child had brought a weapon to school. In a shocking development these young Elementary School students aged 8-10 were linked to a planned attack on their Waycross, Georgia, teacher.
Center Elementary Students Busted (Image: Waycross Police Department)Her crime, she had allegedly scolded one of them for standing on a chair. The plan was very specific. They would knock the teacher unconscious with a paperweight, bind her with toy handcuffs and duct tape, and then stab her with a steak knife, police said. (See photo) Each student would have a specific role in the plot.
***One child's job was to cover the windows so know one outside could witness the attack and another would clean up after the attack. In another stunning development that has many observers baffled, children in Georgia can't be charged with a crime unless they are at least 13, but a juvenile court judge can declare those younger delinquent, state law says. Still police have said that the three students who brought the paperweight, the cuffs and the tape have been arrested. District Attorney Rick Currie told the Times-Union newspaper that Georgia has no detention facilities, however, for anyone as young as the third-graders.
***The paper notes that the children could be housed in a detention center with older youths unless a more appropriate facility was found and approved by the juvenile court, citing Currie as the source. The report also notes that it's possible they could be remanded to the custody of their parents, if the court deems them capable of maintaining control over the youngsters, he said.

I have many times in the past be criticized for choosing to educate my children at home. One of the most common of these criticisms is that I will shelter my children from the "real world" and that they won't know how to deal with it when they get old enough to have to go live and work in it.

I don't really shelter my children...I just keep them close enough so that we can plan together the best way to engage this sick culture. They are not unaware of the evils of this world. I just prefer to be at their sides when they have so see how sad and sick the world truly is. May God help us all!

My heart and prayers go out to these children and their families. What on earth could cause someone who is my daughters age (9) even to think along these lines? This so disturbing to me.