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Wow is right! It said that this was a class of students with learning disabilities. When I first got out of Auburn and was pretty much a 22 year old princess with no life experience, I took a temporary job as the teacher of a class of 6 and 7th graders with learning disabilities. I was only there a month before I took a job a corporate job, but it was long enough! In the class there were sweet kids who were mentally retarded as well as kids who were in there because they could not function in the normal class room. There was one boy who I'm sure was a sociopath as he ended up in Alabama's electric chair for tying a girl to a tree and stabbing her repeatedly. It was a real eye opening experience. As I look back on it, I can imagine the same thing that happened in Georgia happening in that class room. You can imagine how the "disturbed" kids tortured the sweet kids any chance they got. It was very scary and I felt more like a guard than a teacher.

I was hoping things had improved in the schools and they no longer just put all children who could not function in a normal classroom in the same class and that they did a better job of evaluating kids. The kids with learning disabilities deserve an environment where they can learn without being picked on and the kids with severe emotional problems need help that is beyond the scope of the normal teacher. God bless and protect the teachers who try to make a difference.

I don't think that punishing the offenders will do any good if they don't know right from wrong and reality from fiction. They need help and to be removed from that elementary school, IMO.