Comments on: Civilization ends again: Fifth-graders suspected of poisoning teacher’s drink

By: tom

tom — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:27:36 +0000

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

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.”

By: MSGTAS

MSGTAS — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:37:58 +0000

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.

By: aero

aero — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:37:47 +0000

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

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.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:26:04 +0000

Although police haven’t tested the drink, they’re taking the students word that it was just Tylenol.

Yikes. Is that wise?

By: Esthier

Esthier — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:11:37 +0000

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.

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.

By: JellyToast

JellyToast — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:09:39 +0000

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.

By: Geronimo

Geronimo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:08:04 +0000

Corporal punishment for the lad.

By: fossten

fossten — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:05:45 +0000

She rolled their eyes at them, so they did the logical thing and dumped some Tylenol in her drink.

Either the teacher is a wacko dismembering freak who has seen too many “Saw” movies, or you need a better proofreader, Allah.

By: jeanie

jeanie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:03:13 +0000

A lot of this seems to reflect behavior portrayed in recent movis/s.

By: abcurtis

abcurtis — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:02:19 +0000

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.

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:47:53 +0000

Kid’s, you ~~can’t~~should beat ‘em!

ronsfi on April 3, 2008 at 9:15 PM

Fixed.

By: Red Alerts

Red Alerts — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:01:13 +0000

I Blame the Unions! Teachers Targeted by Out of Control Elementary Students…

Just hours after the shocking news that a group of 3rd graders were caught attempting to kidnap and torture their teacher we have this story of some fifth graders poisoning a teacher with over the counter medicine because she rolled her eyes at them….

By: fusionaddict

fusionaddict — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:47:54 +0000

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!

By: labrat

labrat — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:52:49 +0000

Exit question: Whom or what to blame?

Bush, Cheney and Rove of course. The axis of evil.

By: Ares

Ares — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:25:06 +0000

I blame the Daily Kos.

By: Johan Klaus

Johan Klaus — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:57:17 +0000

The NAZI’s helped to control Germany, by taking the family out of raising their children.

By: Johan Klaus

Johan Klaus — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:52:32 +0000

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.

By: knob

knob — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:39:46 +0000

INC on April 3, 2008 at 10:10 PM

Winner.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:19:49 +0000

OMG

By: PatriotPete

PatriotPete — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:18:21 +0000

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”

By: funky chicken

funky chicken — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:48:37 +0000

All four girls are charged with aggravated assault and were scheduled to appear in juvenile court last week, but the case was delayed.

One of the students has been moved from Dana Fox’s class, but the other three remain in the classroom.

unbelievable

By: funky chicken

funky chicken — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:45:44 +0000

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

uh huh

By: funky chicken

funky chicken — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:41:19 +0000

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

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.

By: inviolet

inviolet — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:41:08 +0000

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

Connie on April 3, 2008 at 9:11 PM

and

baldilocks on April 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM

on who’s to blame. For both problems.

By: Capitana

Capitana — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:11:46 +0000

Would it be ironic if I blamed our public schools?