An interesting update to this story can be found here.

Thanks to a reader for the update too, who found the clip of a third grader in the class that was interviewed on Good Morning America.

The clip does not make clear that the girl interviewed is also the girl in the original account who was the center of the plot in the first place, she was the girl that allegedly stood on her chair and was disciplined.

Apparently the other girls involved in the plot then decided to er….discipline the teacher!

I’m of the opinion also, if they were going to “throw pies” then there was no need for handcuffs, tape, and a knife!

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ARE THEY KIDDING? Children aged 10 to 8 years of age plotted this, and they think it couldn’t happen?
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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.”
Dr. Joseph Barrow Jr., Superintendent of the Ware County Schools said today, “To say that we are disappointed in the actions of these students would be an understatement. We could talk about the range of individual opinions from the kids playing “make believe” all the way to the serious plan to do harm. The fact is no one can truly “know” what was in the hearts and minds of these 8, 9, and 10 year olds. However, this is what we do know: Students contrived a plan and brought items (a broken steak knife, a set of toy handcuffs, a long ribbon, two types of tape (black electrical and clear packing) and a crystal paper weight to school. These items, plus the plan outlined by the students, gives us enough reason to suspend seven of the students for the remainder of the school year. Two of the students were suspended for a lesser amount of time due to minimal involvement.

Third-Graders Charged in Plot to Kill Teacher

Georgia police say a group of children brought knives, duct tape, even handcuffs to school, as part of a plan to get revenge on their teacher.And these kids are just eight to ten-years-old.

It was an unbelievable plot.

The plan devised by a group of third-graders was exposed after another student spoke up.

The students had a plan to possibly harm their teacher.

Police were called to an unlikely crime scene at Waycross Elementary school in south Georgia.

They discovered that as many as nine boys and girls had planned to attack their third-grade teacher.

The day before, the teacher had scolded one of the girls for standing on a chair.

“I think the teacher had a timeout table in the back, and she was asked to go to the timeout table and that was as simple as it was,” said Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner.

Just about everyone in this small town was shocked by what they found on the young students.

Police seized a broken steak knife, a chunk of glass, red gloves, toy handcuffs, duct tape and a number of other items they may have planned to use in the attack.

Police say the third-graders assigned themselves different tasks including covering-up the windows and cleaning up afterwords.

“Some might say they were young and in the third grade and how serious could it be, but we obviously have to take that very seriously,” stated Theresa Martin, of the Ware County School Board.

The teacher was veteran educator, and teaches students with learning disabilities.

“Even if at that size, if they had used the knife it could have been fatal,” said Chief Tanner.

Two girls, ten and nine-years-old, along with an eight-year-old boy, face multiple juvenile charges of conspiracy, possession, aggravated assault, all in the third grade.

Chief Tanner says 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.