No one's head ended up on a stick - but it surely wasn't due to the lack of a very impressive and coordinated effort on the part of nine Georgia third-graders.
School officials at Center Elementary School believe the students were mad at their teacher for punishing one of them with a time-out. In retaliation, the students concocted a plan involving a knife, handcuffs, duct tape, a crystal paperweight and a ribbon - all of which were recovered from the students, who have been suspended and may be expelled pending the police investigation.
You've got to be impressed with the solidarity of these children, sticking up for their own. Still, I'm thinking the class would probably benefit from a lesson in non-violent protest - sit-ins, boycotts, those kinds of things. I think Martin Luther King Jr. himself would be the first to acknowledge that injustice has never been righted with a ribbon and a paperweight.
