3rd Graders Plot Against Teacher

Nine 3rd Grade students at Center Elementary School in Waycross, Ga. have been suspended from school. Three of the students face criminal charges. Their crime......planning to attack their teacher, Belle Carter, who disciplined one of them for being unruly in class. An 8-year-old boy and 9 and 10-year-old girls, are now charged with possession of weapons on school grounds, conspiracy to commit a crime of aggravated assault, and unruly child. The students are all typically too young to be charged under Georgia law but the three masterminds have been charged due to the seriousness of this case and the potentially deadly outcome it may have had.

The kids were well prepared for the attack. They even brought weapons with them to school to carry out the attack. Police say the students had been stashing weapons: A steak knife, cheap hand cuffs, a large crystal paper weight, ribbon, and duct tape. Click here to view TV report.

Authorities got word of the alleged plot to harm teacher Ms. Belle Carter at Center Elementary School on Friday when another student reported seeing the knife in the possession of another child. School officials then notified the police. The teacher, Belle Carter, is a veteran educator who teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.

Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said the scheme involved a division of roles. One child's job was to cover windows so no one could see outside. Another was supposed to clean up after the attack. The parents of the students have cooperated with investigators, who aren't allowed to question the children without their parents' or guardians' consent. The three students who were arrested, whose names have not been released, were the ones who brought all the weapons to school said the police chief. He said the parents of the children accused are, "Shocked, saddened and surprised. This is their worst nightmare." Also surprised by the students' alleged plot was the teacher, who called her students good kids.

Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school system said that administrators would follow school system policy and state law in disciplining the students.

"From what I understand, they were considered pretty good kids," Martin said. "But we have to take this seriously, whether they were serious or not about carrying this through, and that's what we did."

"We continue to do what we always do which is work to make our students aware that this is not appropriate and we ask our parents to help us. The old saying that it takes a village to raise a child is very appropriate at this time," says Martin.

Four mothers of other third-grade students at Center Elementary called for the immediate expulsion of the suspected plotters. Stacy Carter and Deana Hiott both cited school system policy stating that any student who brings "anything reasonably considered to be a weapon" is to be expelled for at least the remainder of the school year.

"We don't want our children around them," Carter told the Times-Union. "The one with the knife could have stabbed my child or someone else's child at lunch or out on the playground."

Mental health counselor Audrey Dearborn told a Georgia television station the allegations are alarming.

"Before you would see these types of behavior in high school. Now, we've skipped the middle school and gone right to the third grade," Dearborn said.

Babies Learn Deception Early

When a baby cries is it because of hunger, wetness, tiredness, illness or for no other reason than just to get your attention? Can you tell the difference? Experts now believe that even though babies communicate non-verbally, they are just as capable, as a young child is, of deception. Until now, psychologists had thought the developing brains were not capable of the difficult art of lying until four years old. It is now believed that lying can start as young as six months old.

Dr Vasudevi Reddy, of the University of Portsmouth's psychology department, says she has identified seven categories of deception used between six months and three-years-old.

"Fake crying is one of the earliest forms of deception to emerge, and infants use it to get attention even though nothing is wrong. You can tell, as they will then pause while they wait to hear if their mother is responding, before crying again.

Aside from fake crying Dr Vasudevi Reddy identifies other activities such as:

• pretend laughing


• concealing forbidden activities


• distracting parents' attention


• bluffing when threatened with a punishment

Dr Reddy thinks children use early fibs to discover what kinds of lie work in certain situations, and also learn the negative consequences of lying too much. Apparently there is no morality involved in their actions, in other words young children don't distinguish between right and wrong; deception is merely a mechanism to discover what works when they want a desired result.

Georgia Brown - Child Genius

Georgia Brown is 2 years old, cute and adorable but she has one quality that sets her apart from all the other cute and adorable 2 year olds; she is a genius. She is also the youngest girl member of Mensa, the largest, oldest, and best-known high-IQ society in the world. In order to become a member of Mensa you must score in the top 2% in an approved standardized intelligence test. Georgia scored 152 on her IQ test putting her in the top 0.2 percent of the population. This score earned her an invitation to become a member of Mensa.

Georgia's parents Lucy and Martin Brown have always regarded her as a quick learner, some of her early accomplishments include:

• Crawling at 5 months


• Walking at 9 months


• Dressing herself at 14 months


• Speaking fluently at 18 months

Recognizing Georgia's advanced skills, her mother contacted Professor Joan Freeman, a specialist educational psychologist, for advice. Professor Freeman applied the standard Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale test to Georgia and was amazed to find this was too limited to map her creative abilities. "She swept right through it like a hot knife through butter."

"In one test I asked her to draw a circle and she did it so perfectly.

"Most adults would struggle to do that. Her circle was near to being perfect.

"It shows she can physically hold a pen well but also that she understands the concept of a circle."

Georgia is the youngest of 5 children. Her mother, the chief executive of a charity, thinks that she had benefited from having older siblings. "She has been absorbing information from her older brothers and sisters and father, a self-employed carpenter, while not receiving any special treatment."

But don't think that Georgia is an adult in a little girl's body. She still acts like any normal 2 year old according to her Mom:

"She still has temper tantrums, like you wouldn't believe, throwing herself on the floor. She doesn't think she's better and cleverer than everyone else. She is a very kind and loving child."

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