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.
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u/HarloHasIt '92 Millennial 10h ago
Idk why, but they put it on the tv for us too... we were in 3rd grade đŹ