5 New Jersey Fifth Graders arrested for planning to detonate explosives in a school

[Planter]

what in the blue blazes is going with kids these days? I'm at a loss for words.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...360248991.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand

Police in Clifton, New Jersey say five fifth-grade students were arrested after they allegedly planned to set off explosives at the local high school.

According to Clifton police, the students at School 11 were found with written plans for attacks at Clifton High School. Administrators discovered the alleged plans, but it's not clear how they were led to them.

The children have been released into the custody of their parents, but are suspended from school, police said.

School district officials could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday evening.

Police are investigating.

 

[cbj5259]

When I was in 5th grade I was playing with GI Joe and Transformers...awesome how much progress we are making as a country.

 

[Planter]

When I was in 5th grade I was playing with GI Joe and Transformers...awesome how much progress we are making as a country.

totally agree. Mass shootings, kids putting their siblings in the microwave, kids trying to blow up their schools...starting to wonder if it's time to think about packing up and moving out of the country. New Zealand or something. some place peaceful.

 

[cbj5259]

totally agree. Mass shootings, kids putting their siblings in the microwave, kids trying to blow up their schools...starting to wonder if it's time to think about packing up and moving out of the country. New Zealand or something. some place peaceful.

It's time for parents to start being parents.

 

[Planter]

unfortunately it's not going to happen. too many enablers in this country. too many coddlers and excuse makers.

 

[oldmodman]

To a fifth grader explosives = lady finger firecracker.

 

[offroadkarter]

Clifton isn't even a bad area, hell its not even a really dense area either. If this was camden or newark or east orange I'd just say "oh".

Weird

 

[kevinatfms]

It's time for parents to start being parents.

This. These kids need an ass whooping they will never forget.

 

[scott9050]

In the Middle East children are carrying out mass executions and cutting off heads.

 

[Never_Enough]

Hell has frozen over

 

[SolarYellow]

To a fifth grader explosives = lady finger firecracker.

And to the government or "authorities" what you mentioned would be looked upon as something our soldiers experience in the Middle East. Not saying these "explosives" were the crap you buy in the Walmart parking lot the weeks before the 4th but the government tends to look at things differently than someone with pause and sense.

 

[jbs$]

The very idea that kids, indulging in make believe roll play, with out any means or possibly of actually carrying out their wild scheme, are charged with anything, now, that is the crime. Are there no longer any adults in our World?

 

[Kiohtee]

The very idea that kids, indulging in make believe roll play, with out any means or possibly of actually carrying out their wild scheme, are charged with anything, now, that is the crime. Are there no longer any adults in our World?

Do you live in the same America as the rest of us? These threats are not to be taken lightly, regardless of age.

 

[jbs$]

Do you live in the same America as the rest of us? These threats are not to be taken lightly, regardless of age.

I stand by my statement. Where in modern society are the Adults exercising Adult judgement over issues great and small? It is a sick and irresponsible society that criminalizes childhood behavior.

 

[venom_inc]

I stand by my statement. Where in modern society are the Adults exercising Adult judgement over issues great and small? It is a sick and irresponsible society that criminalizes childhood behavior.

I don't know man. I think we all knew better than to create a plan to kill other children. I don't think these kids should serve serious time but they should be punished and mentally evaluated. I also think their parents have some accountability here as well.

 

[32ValveRom]

Wow, when I was in 5th grade... pogs and Mortal Kombat

 

[Kiohtee]

I don't know man. I think we all knew better than to create a plan to kill other children. I don't think these kids should serve serious time but they should be punished and mentally evaluated. I also think their parents have some accountability here as well.

I can agree with this 100%.

 

[sunburned]

I mean, I bet a lot of fifth graders have talked about blowing up a school at some point haha.

So how detailed were these plans? Do the kids have access to actual explosives? Did the kids sign their names on the plans so they'd be easily found? Sounds like a ridiculous story to me.

 

[Booky]

I stand by my statement. It is a sick and irresponsible society that criminalizes childhood behavior.

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were both 10 years old when they abducted and killed two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. The young boys snatched the toddler from a shopping mall while his mother was inside a store, and took him on a 2.5-mile walk across Liverpool. The boys were seen walking by approximately 38 people, but many assumed he was their younger brother. Venables and Thompson took Bulger to a railway line where they tortured and brutally attacked the toddler. Bulger suffered multiple skull fractures from blows to the head, and was sexually abused by the two older boys. After the beatings, they left Bulger’s lifeless body across the railway tracks so that his body would be cut in half.

Childhood behavior should not be criminalized, Got It.

 

[Machdup1]

The very idea that kids, indulging in make believe roll play, with out any means or possibly of actually carrying out their wild scheme, are charged with anything, now, that is the crime. Are there no longer any adults in our World?

Agreed.

10-12 year old children do not have fully formed minds and mimic what thy see and read. If they are being exposed to these materials, that is a parenting problem.

These children need parental discipline, not a brush with the justice system.