Created: 4/1/2008 5:56:11 PM 
By Ryan DuffyFirst Coast News
WAYCROSS, GA -- Police think nine third graders at Center Elementary School, all eight to ten- years-old, were out to get revenge on their teacher.
Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner says the kids had a carefully crafted plan.
Investigators say they brought handcuffs and rolls of tape to school to tie their teacher, Belle Carter, to her chair.
The kids also brought a kitchen knife and a heavy crystal paperweight they planned to use to hurt her after she was tied up.
"Their plan was to hurt her, we don't know exactly how but we are investigating the knife and crystal as weapons they would use to hurt her in some way," says Tanner.
All nine students were suspended. Three of them, two girls and a boy, who police call the leaders, also face several charges in juvenile court.
A nine-year-old girl is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, possession of weapons on school grounds and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
An eight-year-old boy is charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
A ten-year old girl is charged with possession of weapons on school grounds and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
Police think the students were angry because Carter had scolded one of them.
Although they were just children, police say they took the threats seriously.
"In an attempt to hurt the teacher, if they would have used the crystal or the knife in a blow to the neck or heart it could have been fatal," says Tanner.
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