today i read an article in the newspaper. the article was about 18 third graders who plotted to kill their teacher...no it wasnt just a fake little plan. They had assigned diferent students to different things. some kids were suppost to bring the hand cuffs, or tape, or the steak knife to kill her. Others were assigned to cover the windows, or clean the mess afterwards. that is a pretty thought out plan. it sounds like something you would see on tv. My class room discussed this article and some people decided that kids or not they attempted to murder someone. In all actuality though, why wouldnt they. Those kids probably watch tv, and on tv you dont have to just deal with not liking a teacher you kill her and get away with it all... of course they dont know if it is right or wrong. The kids ended up getting suspended they decided that the kids were too young to be punished or know any better. I agree because of the fact that tv is so violent these days, that kids under the age of 13 probably dont know that killing people is as wrong as it is, and that you do go to jail. I think it is rediculous how they can show such vulgar things to children. I mean i do realize parentsx can put locks on their tvs and what not, but there are times that parents dont or even fox or any other tv network that you think is safe to leave on there for your kids to watch is not at all. in the end i do not think the children are to blame, and neither are the parents necesarily, i believe it is society. I think the children should have to go see a psychotherapist and figure out whatis wrong and right.
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It's scary to think that something like this could happen!
Well I don't think it was 18, it was just a few. But I could be wrong.
I cannot believe that though, I didn't even know swear words in 3rd grades, I just was learning multiplication! Crazy to think how fast kids are growing up, I wrote a blog about it awhile ago.
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It's scary to think that something like that could happen in our society.
"Those kids probably watch tv, and on tv you dont have to just deal with not liking a teacher you kill her and get away with it all... of course they dont know if it is right or wrong.""I agree because of the fact that tv is so violent these days, that kids under the age of 13 probably dont know that killing people is as wrong as it is, and that you do go to jail."
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree slightly. I have a five year old brother who watches cops so often he even tells my mom that the cops will put her in jail for going through a yellow light. He plays "shoot games" as he likes to call them, he watches the news with us, he sees scary movies now and again, but he knows right from wrong.
Those kids were in third grade making them between 7 and 9 depending on the situation. My other little brother has played more violent games and still knows right from wrong. At that age, if a child doesn't know that killing is against the law, or at the very least immoral, then there is something wrong. I knew better when I was that age. We all make so many plans and never go through with them, but I'm sure there was a few kids in that group who were just following along to seem cool. Who knows with today's society. I think that if kids that age don't know right from wrong then that is on the parents and teachers along with older friends and family.
In Japan, you can pick up a magazine and see so much violence and torture along with rapes and everything else. They know that it is just a book, or that games are just that-games. And that is why they have one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
So, what are we doing wrong?
kids that age dont know right from wrong.
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Whoa, kids that age don't know right from wrong?
I've been an afterschool program aide, as well as a Sunday school teacher. The only kids that I've met that 'didn't know right from wrong' were the ones who chose not to, or who's parents didn't enforce. If kids think they can get away with it, then yes, they will attempt to. Don't try to say that they didn't know right from wrong or the consequences. they might not know exact consequences, but if you've had any kind of discipline, then you know what's right and what's not and that there is going to be some kind of undesirable consequence for doing something wrong.
Blaming it on the violence seen on tv has some bearing, but not much. People who are going to kill are going to do it no matter what, watching something that depicts violence is just going to give them ideas, nothing more. You can't turn someone who isn't a killer into one just by sitting them in front of a TV with lots of violence.
What's happening is parents are using the tv as a babysitter and just sticking the kids in front of it, not watching the programs beforehand to make sure they're appropriate or if something inappropriate does come on, sitting down and explaining to their child why that's wrong and they shouldn't do it. I've seen my sister in law do this, and my 5 year old niece loves Hannah Montana. Shortly after beginning to watch this show, she started exhibiting the behavior this teenager is depicting is ok. Never have her parents corrected her and informed her that it's not ok to backtalk, and do whatever you want. She knows at this point that she can get away with it, so that's what she's doing.
My sister has 2 children of her own, and 4 step children. They are the best behaved kids ever, even though her kids both have next to deadbeat dads (which is worse than just being a deadbeat, in my opinion). Her kids play Halo and watch horror movies, yet none of them (except one, but he has some mental issues) is violent at all.
We all come with some inherent sense of right and wrong, and even if it's not taught, it's easily picked up by watching peers. If they didn't have any sense of right and wrong, they'd be out stealing, fighting, and killing each other because someone got the ball they wanted first, or a brother or sister got a toy they wanted, or they saw something they wanted in a store. I think the fact that they aren't doing any of that proves that they know what's right and what's not.