Another article said there were a total of 13 kids in the class, and that article said 11 of them were involved in the plot. This article says 9 have been disciplined, so perhaps the other two had insufficient involvement to warrant discipline. At any rate, we’re talking at least 2/3rds, and maybe over 4/5th of the students in the class, who were eager to harm this teacher. I think school officials should be focusing on the teacher’s behavior more than the conspiring students’. Something has to be very wrong with how a teacher has been treating her young students, for a solid majority of them to want to do serious harm to her in response to her “scolding” a single student.
> Something has to be very wrong with how a teacher has been treating her young students, for a solid majority of them to want to do serious harm to her in response to her “scolding” a single student.
I respectfully disagree. Many times when I was a kid our class would be in a state of anarchy, and many times the teacher would go running out of the clas screaming and in tears down to the principal’s office. Nothing wrong with the teacher — we were just being little rat-bags.
As I see it, this incident is merely an escalation from “the good ol’ days”: the little rat-bags have had the benefit of violent tv and video games to give them ideas that we could never have dreamed up, that’s all.
In the good ol’ days incidents like this were resolved by the vice-principal and 8 strokes of the cane for all hands on deck. It is a shame the school does not have that remedy available to them today.
To give full credit to the kids, at 8 years old somebody amongst them did some pretty careful planning. There is a leader-in-the-making there.