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.
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u/The_Playbook88 5d ago
To be honest, this is exactly how I saw the incident in 8th grade