Three fifth-graders, two boys and a girl, confessed to using rat poison in attempts to harm a teacher.
The elementary school students laced the teacher’s coffe and a muffin with the rat poison during two separate incidents, according to New York Daily News.
Fortunately for the teacher, she did not drink the coffee or eat the mufffin.
One of the students involved in the poisoning had a change of heart and he knocked the coffee mug over before the teacher could take a sip.
The three students have been expelled and moved to another school after the poisoning attempts came to light.
Teacher’s thrashing leaves student blind
INDIA: A teacher thrashed a student so hard that the grade 8 pupil lost his eyesight. The incident occurred in Dehradun’s Scholar’s Home last month, reports Ibnlive.com.
The principal has refuted the allegation.
The student’s father filed a complaint with the police saying that his son’s right eye retina was damaged when the teacher assaulted him physically.
The teenager will have to undergo corrective eye surgery in the Indian city of Chandigarh soon.
Both the school and the teacher has been charged with child abuse.