It's phonics, I tell ya. Get the kids hooked and who knows what mayhem ensues

Now, we know.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Elementary students try to hijack school bus

Friday: Three 11-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl tried to hijack their school bus near Punxsutawney this morning.

State police said the four hatched the plot yesterday. Just after 8 a.m. today, one of the boys pulled a knife from a book bag and held it near another student. He demanded driver Janet McQuown, 52, stop and get off the bus.

A police new release says she pulled over along Pine Tree Church Road in Oliver Township and "the knife was removed from the juvenile's possession." It doesn't say how.

The bus, with the hijackers and about 40 other children, arrived safely at Mapleview Elementary, where the unnamed offenders were taken into custody.

Two were turned over to juvenile authorities and two went home with their parents.

The news release did not immediately say what the hijackers intended to do with the bus.

Phonics? Or Mystery Meat Thursdays? Or maybe they were just tired of that damned groundhog getting all the media juice in town. Yeah, that one. The big rodent with a PR department.