Last night, I read a news story about how nine 3rd graders (boys and girls) in Georgia were plotting to kill their teacher. (Apparently, she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair.) Together, the came up with an arsenal that included a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape, and a paperweight. They planned to knock her unconscious with the weight, bind her with the other materials, and then stab her with the knife. They had even assigned different roles to the different members of the group. They were caught when another student alerted a teacher that someone had brought a weapon to school. The worst part about the whole situation was the response of the school principal. She said, "This is an aberration. We only have good kids at our school."
Wait, what? I'm confused. Do good kids plot to knock others unconscious? Do good kids plan to assault and/or murder their teachers? No, lady. You don't have good kids at your school. You have bad kids. Bad kids who do bad things. Get real.
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Here is my take on this event. I am not surprised when kids and their adult role models behave this way. Our culture has glamorized and glorified "bad" behavior in people of all age levels (our adults are corrupting our children and our children are exhibiting what they learn). Much of our movies, our literature, our music, and life-style support this behavior. Even many of our leaders political, social, professional, and moral are of reprobate minds. The Apostle Paul who brought us much of our Christian teaching said it very well some 2,000 years ago in his commentary to Timothy his disciple. He said, "People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God..."
AND Paul may as well have concluded, "they will stand on chairs and poke their teachers with broken knives"...COME ON PEOPLE, let's shape up!
Love, Mom
wow that is gross and brutal that kids can think like that.
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