Kids Gone Wild
Put forth on April 3, 2008 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Misc, News/Noticias
Recently, a group of third-graders in Waycross, GA, plotted to attack their teacher for going after a fellow student for standing on a chair. Some student were assigned a part in the attack, while others were supposed to clean up the crime scene. Fortunately for the teacher, a student tipped off a teacher that a girl had taken a weapon to school. School officials called the authorities who were able to stop them just in time. NBC affiliate WMGT-TV reports:
[Waycross Police Chief Tony] Tanner says the children ages 8 to 10 apparently were mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair. He says police seized a steak knife with a broken handle, steel handcuffs, duct tape, electrical and transparent tape, ribbons and a crystal paperweight from the students.
The police chief says the students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with the paperweight, bind her with the handcuffs and tape and then stab her with the knife.
Juvenile charges will go against two girls, ages 9 and 10, who brought the knife and paperweight and an 8-year-old boy who brought tape. And nine children have been given discipline up to and including long-term suspension.
What is going on these days. Children are suddenly becoming very hostile if they don’t get their way. It is easy to blame it on television or video games, but this goes beyond all of this. I feel it has to do with overindulgence. We live in a world where we want everything and we want it now. Right or wrong, good or bad, we want it now. If somebody stands in our way, eliminate it.
Whatever happened to establishing and enforcing rules and creating firm boundaries. We should not be able to live in fear waiting for the next ticking time bomb to go off.
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I would add that we live in a society in which violence as a means of solving problems is increasingly acceptable (hello war!) and as a nation we bully people when we don’t get our way. While I’m sure the 3rd graders don’t make that direct connection, the trickle down effect of this is getting to them loud and clear.
I agree with you 100 percent. I wanted to add to say that too. It is good to know I am not the only one who is thinking the same thing.
I completely agree about our violent society, but I also think this overindulgence of children is part of it. It is much easier to prop a kid in front of the tube with a bag of chips than to engage him or her.
It takes time and effort to parent, and it seems that now we have children of adults who were not parented with time, love, and patience. Really, a lot of this goes back to the Reagan era when families were forced into having both parents work.
It was Reagan, alright. He and his cronies: Greenspan, Laffer, Freidman and his Econ advisor (name escapes me at the moment) stedman or pressman or something like that. The one who wrote the book that stated Reagan’s policies were just tax breaks for his friends.
The reasoning at the time was that “women would have more control over their own bodies.” Something most people viewed as a good thing (yes, even evil VC believed it would be better). Women were supposed to have the choice of working or staying home. So called “super moms” would work and still instill proper loving family values into their children.
Wealthy upper class white and Jewish women did come out ahead. Although they were already ahead.
It was all done on the backs of poor white and ethnic minority women (moms).
While the upper classes had quality child care and or nannies, the poor usually relied on the “glass teat” (Tv.) and or overcrowded and over priced home based daycare providers. Were kids usually wound up raising themselves which is a recipe for disaster.
The man’ name is David Stockman.
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