remember the 3rd graders who plotted against their teacher?

[Blue Diadem]

One little girl is speaking out and the NAACP wants the teacher investigated. In a nutshell, apparently those students involved had previously gone to the school counselor with concerns about the teacher.
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3rd-Grader Speaks Out About Plot To Hurt Teacher
NAACP Asked School District For Independent Investigation

WAYCROSS, Ga. -- One of the nine children suspended from a Waycross elementary school after a plot to harm a teacher was unveiled spoke out Tuesday afternoon about how and why the plot came about.

Laniyah Garner, a shy, soft-spoken 9-year-old Center Elementary School third-grader, told Channel 4 that she felt threatened to participate in the plot but said she never planned to harm her teacher.

More at link: http://www.news4jax.com/news/15829322/detail.html

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video of NAACP call for investigation
http://www.news4jax.com/video/15829659/index.html

[gratuitous]

1. Why would anyone be upset by these 8-year-olds anyway?

They've lived their entire lives in an America that not only believes that might makes right, but that the preferred method for settling disputes and disagreements is to visit overwhelming violence on your adversary. They've internalized the lesson exceptionally well. President Bush should be hanging Medals of Freedom or whatever around their little necks.

[atreides1]

2. What Would be Nice

Is to have some kind of hint as to what they are accusing the teacher of, and they're going to need a little more then the word of children who were planning to hurt or do worse to the teacher.

And why did the kids tell the counselor but didn't think to tell their parents?

Right now it just appears to be a way to get the kids out of trouble, by making an accusation against the teacher.

I don't know this little girl, but I have children, and sometimes they will make things up to keep from getting into trouble, even at 9 years old.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Yes we really need more information here

I wonder what the counselor did when they went to her.

[Blue Diadem]

5. The complaints to the counselor/s happened before the plot.

I can't agree that it's just a way to get out of trouble..not until it's known what those complaints were or what was done about them or how the children were advised to deal with them.

I do agree that we need more information though. It will probably trickle out like many other stories do. This is the first that I'd heard they were A/B students, previously I'd read/heard somewhere that they were special education.

I'm still shocked that kids that age could do such a thing. My oldest granddaughter is that age and they're taught conflict resolution, peer mediation etc. from 2nd grade on.

[Donnachaidh]

7. planning to hurt the teacher because two girls were put in time-out?

Uhh -- someone needs to turn OFF the TV's in their homes.

I'd like to see more information come out of this. I'd also like to know where the hell the parents were? The kids went to the counselors, as they should. But when nothing came of the chat with the counselors, the parents needed to get involved. THEY should be the ones calling for an investigation - not an outside agency like the NAACP.

[endarkenment]

4. 3rd graders are very scary. BE AFRAID.

[aikoaiko]

6. interesting how the reporter or the girl/parents don't actually name the previous concerns

And when did getting A and B grades make one an overachiever -- geeesh.

[Donnachaidh]

8. In Georgia, anyone getting A's and B's is considered an overachiever

Seriously. My kid was told that no high school freshman had ever completed the AP Music Theory course. They'd dropped the class in the first two weeks of the first semester. He's acing the entire year. It has the teacher dumbfounded.

They don't expect children to be hungry for knowledge. :shrug:

[aikoaiko]

9. Its stunning -- as a GA father of a 3 year old, I'm already looking at 5 -10k/year kindergarten.

where expectations are higher.

[Donnachaidh]

11. what would HELP all the kids is having the parents like you put your kid in the regular schools

And get involved with pushing the schools to do MORE.

Seriously, what you are thinking of doing is actually AIDING the Republicans in Georgia who want to privatize the schools. They don't WANT to pay for education for everyone.

Join the parents (like myself) who have become a burr under the saddle of the Repuke education system and FIGHT for your kid and everyone else's.

[callous taoboy]

10. I teach third graders. They are cute little beings, mostly. I especially like

to listen to a whole classroom munching on popcorn. Music to my ears.

:popcorn:

[w8liftinglady]

13. you sound like a great teacher..!

[callous taoboy]

14. I really love my job. The testing part suuuuuucks! n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. B Students are overachievers?

Wow. Way to set the bar low. This certainly isn't the same NAACP my grandmother was involved in.