Two of the three Waycross third-grade students charged in a plot to harm their teacher accepted plea deals on Tuesday.
A total of nine third-grade students were suspended from Center Elementary School in early April after investigators said they learned of the students' plan, which allegedly involved the children bringing weapons to class.
According to investigators, the motive for the alleged plot might have been to get revenge on a teacher after she disciplined a student.
Expulsion was the students' original punishment, but the Ware County School Board later decided to suspend the students for 30 days.
Three of the nine children suspended were facing juvenile charges.
On Tuesday, the third-graders went before a juvenile judge to decide their fate on the judicial side of the issue.
Two of the students took plea agreements. However, the third student's parents said they did not want to take any plea agreement. Instead, that family said it wants to prove their daughter's innocence so she can have a clean record.
The family's representative, Rev. Thomas Bailey, and an NAACP representative said they were locked out of the court system on Tuesday.
The men said they spoke with attorney Sage Brown, who is representing the child who did not take a plea deal in the case, and they agreed it would be a long process that would take several days to figure out.
"I'm definitely not happy with what's going on. I'm not happy with the entire process from start to finish and how this whole thing occurred and how it started in the school system and quickly it got to the law enforcement," said Bailey.
No decision has been made as to what to do with the third child. The judge asked for a continuance and expects to be back in court in 10 days to determine what's going to happen with the child that did not take a plea deal.
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