NYC parents picket school over 8-year-old who allegedly stabbed staffer, pretends to shoot classmates

A group of Staten Island parents staged an unprecedented protest against an 8-year-old boy in a gifted and talented class who they say stabbed an educator with a pencil and terrorizes classmates.The hellion at highly-rated PS 8 in Great Kills threatened to bring in a gun; points his little hand as if it were a pistol and imitates shooting his peers; growls, screams, throws chairs and kicks kids during class, frightened third-graders told their parents.“He was saying he was going to shoot and kill [students and staffers], bury them, the FBI wouldn’t be able to find them,” one mother said. In another incident, the child hit a female classmate and told her, “Shut up,” a second mom said.The girl kicked the boy in response and reported the episode to the teacher.

Then things took a chilling turn.“‘When I come to school tomorrow, I’m going to bring a gun and shoot everybody in this class.And I’m going to bury you 10,000 feet below the ground,’ ” the boy told the girl, according to her mom.At least one child transferred out of the class because of the boy, who is the son of a fired city public school guidance counselor.“There was an incident with the child saying dangerous and harmful things about the teacher and what he wanted to do to her, so I felt uncomfortable and said, ‘I don’t think this is a good place for my child,’” the third mom told The Post.“He would speak about violence against the children, violence against the teacher.

That’s not something a kid their age should be thinking about.It’s disturbing.” On April 25 the parents took the extraordinary step of staging a “boycott” — keeping 21 of the class’ 31 kids out of school — and rallied with fliers outside the Lindenwood Road school to press the DOE to expel the alleged menace.“True threat of DEADLY VIOLENCE at PS8,” the flier read.

“We need the Superintendent to step in with a solution before anyone else gets hurt.”The children, most of whom have b...