Comments on: Experts Doubt Tweens Would Attack Teacher

Psychologists Say Third-Graders Were Unlikely To Follow Through With Plot To Stab Teacher

[michellem99-2009]

please use the term pre teens not the dumb T teens. Children are minors. Pre teens 10,11,12. Teens 13 thru 19. They ARE children. They can''t think as an adult as they are children. I was called a pre teen then a teen at 13. An adult at 21. Even tho the law said 18. I was a foster child from 5 to 21. The problem is weak parents. They let their very young children boss Mum and Mum does nothing. I have seen it time and time. PARENTS WERE RAISED THAT WAY AS THEY ARE NOW RAISING THEIR CHILDREN MAYBE FAR WORSE. I was no angel. Dad gave me rules and I learnt to read his voice tones..I am and was legally blinded at birth. The family broke up when I was 5 or 6 went into bad foster homes. That was when my world fell apart. The state moved me from home to home. Denied a proper education. 1 am 53. We had 3 networks CBS,NBC and ABC when I was growing up. Yes there was a TY in the homes. We were not allowed it . There were programming she bar us to watch. We did not whine as no meant no. I lived in homes where guns were not allowed. Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel,westerns barred. The TV was not the centre nor was guns..We were not given toy guns. I was not raised in the church. That was barred in the homes.

[Gary Kempf]

DaVicar2

Excellant!!!!!

[dgal878]

Yeah well my bet is the experts would have bet against these kids ever loading up their weapons and taking them to school in the first place so I don''t buy it. We''ve seen what evil kids can do. Denial will not help anyone fix anything.

[bks59]

no mention of parents or home life!

[truth832-2009]

"As for the article referring to psychologists as experts, they might be educated professionals when it comes to the human mind and behavior. That doesn''''t mean that they can predict whether or not the crime would have been committed." rchanning12

These are indeed children. Moreover, I would much rather rely on educated professionals in assessing the situation than on your opinion. Your lock ''em up attitude in case we can''t predict the future of what children might do is, unfortunately, harmful in so many ways. Please, don''t be so afraid!

[rchanning12]

For those of you who say that they are just children, what would it take for you to be convinced that there was a potential for danger? Did someone have to be harmed before authorities stepped in? We were all children once. That didn''t mean that we collaborated, planned, and collected items to harm others. As for the article referring to psychologists as experts, they might be educated professionals when it comes to the human mind and behavior. That doesn''t mean that they can predict whether or not the crime would have been committed.

[truth832-2009]

The weirdest people i have met were the so called experts. ranger1948

Perhaps more education is needed before you can recognize the benefit that experts can provide; meanwhile, silent ignorance is superior to showing it throug boasting. Shut the hell up you fool!

[jahmonhil]

See what happens when you take God out of any equation!!!!

[ranger1948]

The weirdest people i have met were the so called experts. I don''t care if they are just children. They planned this crime in detail, brought verything to school. I think this clearly shows intent to carry out the crime. I think we have another Charles Manson clan developing here.

[smiley676]

psychologists and profilers are certainly experts