Teachers have never been more criticised and devalued than they are right now. Whilst you can’t blame all negative incidents on a political and media campaign against teaching standards, I’m sure children pick up on the discontent in the wider community.
To read that three children in the 5th Grade twice attempted to poison their teacher, makes me wonder how children as young as that can rationalise in their own minds that killing their teacher would be a worthwhile solution to their problems:
Three California fifth-graders who confessed to using rat poison in attempts to harm their teacher are being moved to other schools.
The three students at Balderas Elementary School in Fresno admitted lacing the teacher’s coffee and a cupcake with rat poison in two separate incidents, according to the Fresno Teachers Association and published reports.
Miraculously, the teacher never took a sip of the coffee or a bite of the cupcake.
One of the three accused students apparently had a change of heart and knocked the coffee cup out of the teacher’s hand before she could drink from it.
The mid-December incidents came to light two months after they happened because a parent of one of the students bragged that her boy saved a teacher’s life.
No criminal charges have been filed against the two boys and one girl, according to ABC’s Fresno affiliate KFSN. The Fresno Police Department is continuing to investigate, but says there is little or no physical evidence remaining from the December incidents. The Fresno County district attorney’s office will decide whether to press charges against the children.
All three students have been expelled and moved to other schools, according to KFSN. The two boys are being transfered to the Phoenix Academy, which does not sit well with at least one of its teachers.
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