Civilization ends again: Fifth-graders suspected of poisoning teacher’s drink
posted at 9:00 pm on April 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
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She rolled their eyes at them, so they did the logical thing and dumped some Tylenol in her drink. It was “only” two and a half pills but the idea of prepubescents turning to poisoning to prank the teacher is indeed sufficiently creepy as to qualify as newsworthy. Exit question: Whom or what to blame? Video games? A sensationalist media? Or Hillary, determined as she is to set a bad example for Our Children by not bowing to Barack Obama?
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Maybe there’s something already in the water.
Tzetzes on April 3, 2008 at 9:03 PM
I blame Bush.
lorien1973 on April 3, 2008 at 9:03 PM
Is it me or are too many kids just not fearing any serious punishment for doing anything bad?
Someone do a survey yet to get a profile on these trouble making kids’ parents? Liberal or conservative? In my upbringing, I dont know of any conservative parents who had out of control kids (probably because we used to SPANK back then)
El Guapo on April 3, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Almost. It’s global warming. Just wait, Al Gore will relate it to the raising temperatures and our rejection of Kyoto.
El Guapo on April 3, 2008 at 9:05 PM
Maybe young children will replace zombies and punk-rock bikers as the great menace on post-apocalyptic Earth.
If this keeps up, we had all better start practicing to improve our score here.
Nosferightu on April 3, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Feminism
Connie on April 3, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Students are black and the teacher is white?
Whip out the hate crime laws. NOW. Just to show what a crock they are.
MadisonConservative on April 3, 2008 at 9:11 PM
you’re right! Where’s the ACLU on this one?!?!
El Guapo on April 3, 2008 at 9:14 PM
Ha! goot one.
Zorro on April 3, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Kid’s, you can’t beat ‘em!
ronsfi on April 3, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Civilization ends a lot, huh?
At least twice a day.
silverfox on April 3, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Blame Canada!
VolMagic on April 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM
Somebody give that anchorette a sandwich.
hoosiermama on April 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM
I think it’s pretty obvious this is a case of racism…on the teacher’s part. What, she didn’t want to be poisoned by Black students!?
She allegedly rolled her eyes at them. Her chickens are just coming home to roost!
amerpundit on April 3, 2008 at 9:19 PM
It sounds like the grade school is going to hell in a hand
basket,with no school room to throw it in,or play ground to
throw it on!
Didn’t a group of grade three students also plan on doing
their teacher in a few days ago!
There really has got to be something wrong somewhere,now a
days kids seem to know there rights,there is 0 respect for
any authority!
canopfor on April 3, 2008 at 9:21 PM
I thought Canada went on strike.
Anyway…I would put some of it on peer pressure, but the parents should know better by teaching the kids to say no to peer pressure. Didn’t Nancy Reagan teach us anything?
ScoopPC11 on April 3, 2008 at 9:22 PM
After watching the report, I believe the blame actually falls on these kids’ view of themselves as perennial victims. Teachers a whitey, so she’s racist. It’s ok to poison racists.
VolMagic on April 3, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Maybe it has something to do with the culture these children are brought up in. At what point do we face facts and recognize that race and class are factors in forming a childs perspective. Look at Obama’s excuse for Wright when he says that’s how most blacks feel and speak at the dinner table. When I was a kid, we talked about school and sports and what-not.
Big John on April 3, 2008 at 9:23 PM
No, if it was video games it would have been something a bit more spectacular, followed by stealing her car and driving around the city erratically.
Slipping her a mickey (God, I love those old expressions) sounds more like one of those horrible cop shows where they show the pill tumbling through her digestive system, followed by the gastric detonation that resulted in her spleen being blown across the room.
But what about the camel hair, Doc? Where did the camel hair come from? It all fits…except for the hair.
Those shows have people of all ages killing other people in all kinds of ways for all kinds of reasons. Part of the reason I can’t stand TV anymore. I mean, in the old days, we got by on Quincy. Now, we’re carving up murder victims on every other channel and scanning for bodily fluids on the drapes almost every damn night. Depressing. Truly.
austinnelly on April 3, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Thank you, LBJ–the author of the Great Fatherless Society.
baldilocks on April 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM
I should of thought of this earlier,hammer hit nail!
It’s the beginning of “THE CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED”
canopfor on April 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM
I was guilty of the same offense about 40 years ago. Me and “Sam” (not his real name as I’m unsure of the statute of limitations) put Ex-Lax into “Miss Jones” (same disclaimer) coffee at recess. Not being coffee drinkers ourselves, we didn’t know she’d be able to tell it was in there.
It was such a great plan too!
TugboatPhil on April 3, 2008 at 9:27 PM
canopfor on April 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM
That’s Village of the Damned, but close enough :)
VolMagic on April 3, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Or Children of the Corn maybe?
VolMagic on April 3, 2008 at 9:30 PM
I thought Hillary had this problem under control,
“IT takes a Village”,its all about the children!,no.
canopfor on April 3, 2008 at 9:30 PM
A couple of Tylenol in the water is justified when you’re a young African-American just trying to survive against the raaaaaaacist white oppressor trying to force feed you false Euro-centric propaganda as the truth.
This must not be prosecuted because it is an example of empowering the youth to fight against the patri–
Wow, it is SO easy to say ridiculous lefty garbage and make it sound “real.”
ScottMcC on April 3, 2008 at 9:30 PM
You can’t spank kids anymore. You can’t expel the most rotten. Actual learning has been replaced by indoctrination. (My two sons must think Martin Luther King discovered America, landed on the moon, invented microwave popcorn, and is on Mt. Rushmore. MLK celebrations and history appear to be the only consistent thing they get each and every year.)
Sugar Land on April 3, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Parents.
I know, it sounds crazy.
SouthernDem on April 3, 2008 at 9:31 PM
I believe that’s what it is – kids know the worst they can get no matter how bad (e.g. murder) is juvee until they’re 18 or 21 then come out with the slate wiped clean and street cred.
BowHuntingTexas on April 3, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Don’t blame us. Our kids would just drop the gloves and lay a beating on the teacher! ;-)
CanuckInPA on April 3, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Gee I wonder where they got the idea that their “white” teacher might be prejudice against them. This is the problem with preachers like Rev Wright, it starts with him goes into the heads of the adults then they feed it into their children’s brains. Teachers dislike students for one reason and one reason only, they are brats. Based on the actions of these misfits, I would have to say they fall into that category.
tylercralle on April 3, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Whatch you tawking ’bout, Willis?
SouthernGent on April 3, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Introducing Generation Death. The lack of respect for authority, and total disregard for human life seems to have been firmly entrenched in our society. Very sad. At least you have to give these kids credit for their foward thinking of taking a stand against the “man” at an early age.
chief on April 3, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Thats Village of the Damned,but close enough:)
VolMagic on April 3,2008 at 9:29PM.
VolMagic:Damm!t,haha
canopfor on April 3, 2008 at 9:37 PM
The end of the video was cut off. The kids intended… what? What did they think two and a half Tylenols would do to someone?
logis on April 3, 2008 at 9:40 PM
And where the heck are kids learning this? I blame parents, but the schools also need to take some of this.
4shoes on April 3, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Dear people of Iraq,..See what you have to look forward to. Nation building is tough work, just ask GWB
Legions on April 3, 2008 at 9:45 PM
You’re white and you think that’s funny? You’re obviously raaaaaaacist.
ScottMcC on April 3, 2008 at 9:49 PM
This is how the Japanese arrive at the Battle Royale solution.
:(
Kai on April 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM
And people wonder why it’s so hard to recruit (and keep) good teachers anymore. I used to be a teacher, but I left the profession in very short order, in large part due to safety issues. The pay’s not nearly good enough to risk your life every day, and that’s not really an exaggeration. Teachers in many school districts deserve combat pay. But unlike cops and soldiers, teachers aren’t allowed to defend themselves or even punish offenders in any effective way.
aero on April 3, 2008 at 9:52 PM
Let me guess…. this is a public school …. right ? Gee just think of how great our health care services will be after the government takes over…… we know it will be great because we can see what the government takeover of education has done for us.
Dear Lord…. help us.
Maxx on April 3, 2008 at 9:58 PM
This would be relevant….if we were in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, AL.
malan89 on April 3, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Like Geraldine Ferraro, the teacher is just another “David Duke in drag”. Rolling her eyes at “saintly” black kids. Right Randi?
RMR on April 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM
In my youth people put LSD in teachers drinks. In my fathers, Mickey Finns. Nothing new here.
I bet the teacher rolled her eyes and pi$$ed off the kids. The kids spiked her drink, the sh!t hits the fan, then, the race card appears. See if it still claims magic.
BL@KBIRD on April 3, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Exit question: Whom or what to blame?]
I agree. You go back to the root cause and there you have it. We are reaping the whirlwind sown by the wind of feminism.
Radical feminism from the 60’s, by and large, was driven by a belief that the miseries of life were caused by society’s oppressive role for women.
This meant that feminism quite naturally became a war on the family and a war on children, and this was aided by the legalization of abortion if the newly accessible birth control pill didn’t work. It also became a war on men, which brings us to the complication of fatherless families.
Today we still have the consequences although people tend to think of radical feminists as having been marginalized to the likes of the Code Pink crowd. What many are unaware of is how the structure and function of the family has been turned upside down.
Kids need a mom and a dad. Children have become the big losers. They are treated as commodities that can be dropped off at day care as you drop clothes off at the cleaners. They are learning, growing human beings who need love and t-i-m-e and guidance and training in right and wrong.
In too many instances child rearing has been granted to government institutions such as schools, and teachers are expected to be parents as well.
You can also make a case for LBJ’s and his supposedly “Great Society.”
INC on April 3, 2008 at 10:10 PM
The rolling of one’s eyes might be considered Hate Speech. I’ll have to think about this.
hepcat on April 3, 2008 at 10:13 PM
The Great Fatherless Society and feminism are two sides of the same bad penny.
baldilocks on April 3, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Generation Death has been growing ever since it was introduced to total disregard for human life by Roe v Wade in 1973.
INC on April 3, 2008 at 10:14 PM
baldilocks
I like your term for LBJ’s “Great Fatherless Society.” I’ll have to remember that one.
INC on April 3, 2008 at 10:16 PM
I blame Bush
George H.W. Bush
Need to spread the blame around
Defector01 on April 3, 2008 at 10:32 PM
rats… several of y’all already beat me to the “blame bush” aspect of this….
next time..
Drunk Report on April 3, 2008 at 11:02 PM
If these type of things were going on with homes schoolers,, home school teachers having sex with other home schooled kids, home schooled students poisoning their parents, plotting to kidnap other home schoolers,, there would be screams from the MSM and congress of the failures and dangers of homeschooling!! The cries to ban homeschooling would be deafening and non stop!
But,, what do we hear???
Crickets chirping in the night,, broken only by the occasional cries for more money..
JellyToast on April 3, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Would it be ironic if I blamed our public schools?
Capitana on April 3, 2008 at 11:11 PM
So these 10 year olds are so undereducated (at home OR school) as not to know that 2-1/2 tylenol won’t hurt any adult one little bit? Kids should be taught the basics of how headache meds work at least by, what, 6 or 7 years old? But nobody at home bothered to teach them this basic info. Not surprising I guess, if they were never taught it’s, um, inappropriate to try to poison your teacher.
So not only are they little sociopaths, they’re too ignorant to carry out the results. And…agree with
and
on who’s to blame. For both problems.
inviolet on April 3, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Kids don’t get expelled any more. The principals and teachers have lost their power to enforce standards of behavior in the classroom. Well, unless a kid draws a picture of a gun or shares an asthma inhaler with a friend who forgot theirs at home.
funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 11:41 PM
uh huh
funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 11:45 PM
unbelievable
funky chicken on April 3, 2008 at 11:48 PM
What do you expect from products of the nanny state raised with an entitlement mentality. These little troglodytes need to be beaten just for being so stupid. People who are tempted to blame the schools fail to realize that ultimately the schools and teachers jump through hoops to keep parents from suing them. Schools and teachers are given culpability without being the ability to get the job which needs to be done, done.
Even now, I’m sure the parents of these kids are trying to come up with excuses for why this happened, cna you hear it, “It’s Bush’s fault”, or “this wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the mortgage crisis and the war”. Thoughts for a new television program “CSI Kindergarten”
PatriotPete on April 4, 2008 at 12:18 AM
OMG
Jaibones on April 4, 2008 at 12:19 AM
Winner.
knob on April 4, 2008 at 12:39 AM
baldilocks on April 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM
I believe that LBJ did more to hurt black people, than just about anything in my lifetime. Maybe, the bad results of good intentions.
Johan Klaus on April 4, 2008 at 12:52 AM
The NAZI’s helped to control Germany, by taking the family out of raising their children.
Johan Klaus on April 4, 2008 at 12:57 AM
I blame the Daily Kos.
Ares on April 4, 2008 at 4:25 AM
Bush, Cheney and Rove of course. The axis of evil.
labrat on April 4, 2008 at 6:52 AM
Video had to be taken down due to it being uploaded incomplete…we’ve re-uploaded it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t77n_qS0YVg
Allahpundit, please update the video!
fusionaddict on April 4, 2008 at 7:47 AM
Fixed.
James on April 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM
We live in a relativistic, post-modern society where there is no clearly defined line between right and wrong. Parents are not teaching the difference because their parents never taught it to them and so on and so on. The schools do nothing to reinforce the parents and vice-versa. And heaven forbid you make a judgment on somebody’s behavior.
Everybody demands to be respected. Everybody is offended. We’ve heard since the flower power days of the 60’s to “Question Authority.”
But everybody wants to do exactly as they please without any consequences or ramifications and most of all, no judgment from others. “YOU DONT KNOW ME!” is their battle cry. I know all about you I need to know, honey.
I’ll probably get slammed or flamed for this but here it is – as long as we continue to turn away from God, take Him out of our public square, teach kids they evolved from animals instead of being created in His image, this is going to continue.
abcurtis on April 4, 2008 at 9:02 AM
A lot of this seems to reflect behavior portrayed in recent movis/s.
jeanie on April 4, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Either the teacher is a wacko dismembering freak who has seen too many “Saw” movies, or you need a better proofreader, Allah.
fossten on April 4, 2008 at 9:05 AM
Corporal punishment for the lad.
Geronimo on April 4, 2008 at 10:08 AM
I have a friend on the local school board here. He is telling me that kids can get diagnosed with disorders so easily. Once they get a diagnosis for something like a mental disorder, personality disorder, behavior disorder,, they are immune from any punishment. He said they could bring a knife or gun to school and not be expelled, because of their disorder. The weapon would be taken, but they are prevented from any punishment as long as they have the magic diagnosis.
JellyToast on April 4, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Especially if the girls thought it would harm the teacher. I once knew a girl (older than 12) who thought she could OD on a bottle of Tylenol.
It also surprises me that these were girls. I immediately assumed they were boys.
I’d blame parenting, but overall I think our culture should also take some blame.
Esthier on April 4, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Yikes. Is that wise?
Tanya on April 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM
This is true. I once taught in an “alternative” high school (i.e. a dumping ground for bad kids they can’t expel or otherwise get rid of), and there was a kid there who had actually shot (wounded) another student on school grounds. He had been previously diagnosed as ED (emotionally disturbed), so they couldn’t expel him. After some token amount of time in juvi, he was dumped at the alternative school, where he learned almost nothing and got away with everything. He knew he could intimidate the teachers because we knew he was hard-core and that we couldn’t do anything to him. At the time, the campus had no security guards, no metal detector, and a frighteningly weak principal. As I mentioned earlier, I left the teaching profession rather quickly because of stuff like this.
aero on April 4, 2008 at 10:37 AM
This is what happens when the left and liberals do away with any form of discipline (self of social).
The ‘just do it; culture has taken hold and needs a large amount of adult supervision and discipline to set them right.
Parents who abdicate their role are the first to face their children’s wrath.
MSGTAS on April 4, 2008 at 10:37 AM
You know it’s a good story when it starts out, “I guess I can tell this now. The statute of limitations should have run out by now.”
tom on April 4, 2008 at 2:27 PM
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