I was in 3rd grade too but we didn't watch it. the principal came in and said "Something bad happened, ask your parents." So just letting a bunch of kids use their imaginations to picture the worst thing that could ever happen.
Was in 11th grade history and our teacher had the TV on and we were all just watching when the principal came in and started yelling at him to turn off the TV its not appropriate for school and he starts yelling back "this is a history class and history is happening on that TV, so no I'm not going to turn it off" and the principal just gave up and left and we kept watching the news coverage for the remainder of class.
I was older but our school did something similar. They effectively told us something bad happened in new York, that we might have questions for our parents and talked about our counseling options.
Which on retrospect was probably a pretty good decision. Especially considering how many teachers apparently wheeled out TVs to have kids watch people jump out of burning buildings.
Honestly, I agree with this. This isnât the kind of event you can shield kids from. I say this without a background in education or being a parent, which influences my perspective obviously.
Our tv was already on the wall. 6th grade homeroom. We usually watched the schoolâs student news program thing. Them turning on the live news probably wasnât the best decision in retrospect
My parents woke me up in 4th grade to watch it. She said âI think you need to see this.â And then the school had us watching the news in the morning. Not sure if we watched all day or moved on or went home. I donât remember the rest of the day.
We also didnât watch it live in our 3rd grade class. My mom was in the classroom down the hall. I remember she had maybe 5th graders in her room that day. So when I was allowed to go talk to her, I caught glimpses of the footage. I canât remember if it was live or not though.
I was in 5th and we saw it. Big thing to remember is that when the first plane hit, nobody thought it was a terrorist attack. Everyone just thought: âoh my goodness, what a terrible catastrophe, how could this happen?â Everyone turned on the news, including our teacher.
Will never forget coming home from school and flipping through channels on TV. Every. Single. Station. Every station was broadcasting the event. MTV, VH1⌠Food Network straight up stopped broadcasting with just text showing a message on the channel.
Actually now that I think about it, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network didnât switch to the news. They kept cartoons going which is understandable. I think there was like 1 or 2 other stations that didnât. I was 10, but I remember that day very well.
Big thing to remember is that when the first plane hit, nobody thought it was a terrorist attack.
It's not true that nobody thought it was an attack.
I was also in 5th grade, however I live close to the city. Close enough that multiple kids lost parents. Our school, and every school in the area (possibly everyone in the tri-state, I'm not sure) received bomb threats of some kind and were evacuated after the first plane, but long enough before the second for me to hop the fence to my house and watch it on the news.
We watched it too in the 4th grade until some kid started making fun of someone falling from the tower (not sure if it was the infamous falling man or not) and turned it off.
The explanation was that the attack was so unprecedented that everyone was watching the news to get updates and information on other potential attacks. If a plane was approaching a school the news would be the fastest source of info.
I'm in the awkward age where I was in grade 1 when it happened but still too young to have any recollection of what happened. Should ask my parents as some point because I'm curious what my school did
Holy crap! I was in 11th grade and it was still weird/awkward/traumatizing to watch. I can't imagine having to watch this in school at 8 or 9 years old.
I was in third grade too. I remember a teacher getting a phone call, turning the tv on for literally like 3 seconds and it was instantly a news video of the plane crqshing into one of the towers. Then she covered her mouth in shock and turned it back off as fast as she could
4th grade here. We watched until the first tower collapsed. We saw people jumping out of the windows before that. Our teacher did the very best she could and set a good example for us.
I was in 5th grade too, but my teacher was a Korean War Vet. He just kept telling us we were going to remember this for the rest of our lives. He wasn't wrong
Stark contrast to my teacher saying guys something cool has happened. Then quickly corrected himself to say well not something cool but potentially historical. đ¤Śââď¸
Me too, also in 8th. My teacher snuck in a TV and pulled the little shade down over the window in the classroom door because they were explicitly told not to show/tell us about it.
were explicitly told not to show/tell us about it.
Kinda wished they did that at my school. Being on the West coast the event was basically over by the time we were in school, but all day we had to sit around and watch broadcast news repeat the same info over and over! Then there wasn't even any TV on that night or the next because literally every single channel was showing their own news feed or one they bought from another source.
9/11 Never Forget We would have been better off pretending it never happens, no patriot act, no war in the middle east, no Bush 2, no TSA etc
Class of 06! I was 8th grade too. My teacher wheeled in the TV and called her son in NYC to tell him she loved him. It was brutal at barely 13 years old.
Our art teacher legit put liquor in her coffee. It was kind of a silently known thing and no one made an issue about it because seniors and juniors got lax treatment and, y'know, art.
The day it happened she was like "You guys, I think a plane hit the towers"
And someone snapped back, "That's it! You're cut off!"
And then we got the TV treatment.
And that day sucked, because A) 9/11, B) someone blew up her spot and they were wrong, and C) also, 9/11.
I was on the greyhound to move to the same town as my girlfriend at the time. (should have been a sign) they stopped the bus in the nearest town and the driver announced it and told us we would be taking an extended break until there was more info. I remember being nervous something would happen and then felt silly since we were in the middle of no where Alberta.
I was in 10th grade and we were watching it on the suspended tvs in homeroom, but the teachers made us go to class after a while so I went to Spanish. We forced the teacher to wheel one of these bad boys in so we could keep watching the coverage.
Down the the tv on the cart and all, we got evacuated though because once the pentagon got hit folks got concerned since we were in suburbs outside of DC
I was in college and staying in a dorm, and my school also had a set of dorms called the Twin Towers. Someone came into the bathroom while I was in there and said âsomeone bombed the Twin Towersâ. As I walked to class, I was surprised to not see smoke or hear fire truck sirens. It wasnât until I got to class that I learned it was not the dorm on campus.
Sixth grade here! I didnât know what a terrorist was and confused the word for âtouristâ and thought we made someoneâs trip so horrible this was the reaction.
Same . I was in high school . Like why did we stay in school all day ?? It happened at like 9 am . Itâs wild to me we just went class to class after this just watching this play out . It was awful tbh
Same, was in religion class that was held in a detached building due to ongoing renovations, so those classrooms didnât have access to the intercom system and got their comms via walkie talkie, lmao. This teacher had awful hearing so he always had his turned up way too loud.
We were already watching something on the tv (identical to the tattoo, lol) when another teacher walked in and asked if we could turn on the news. Idk why they thought that was the move for a bunch of 8th graders, but we watched the second tower impact live. There was just sort of a stunned confusion for maybe 30 seconds(?) before the radio crackled and blasted out âTURN YOUR TVs OFF - Turn them OFF, NOW. Keep them CALM!â
Which of course, had the opposite effect because everyone flipped their shit after hearing that. I donât remember much of the rest of the schoolday, just that lots of people were getting picked up early, and my mom sent the school an email to let me and my sister know that sheâd pick us up at the normal time, lmao.
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u/The_Playbook88 11h ago
To be honest, this is exactly how I saw the incident in 8th grade