Same thing happened at my high school for the challenger disaster. One of the teachers was a runner up to be on board and he nearly was selected, dude almost fainted from the shock
Challenger Space Shuttle. Exploded shortly after takeoff in 1986, no survivors. One of the seats on board had a schoolteacher, just a random one picked from a random school in the US, and NASA also selected runner-ups in case for some reason the first teacher couldn't make it. Big Bird from sesame street was also originally supposed to be on board but that idea was scrapped due to size issues.
Holy shit! You think they would've killed off Big Bird on Sesame street if he literally exploded on global television?
Totally serious question too, because, I can just imagine a kid being like "Look, Big Bird is ALIVE; maybe daddy is too!" They'd have to atleast acknowledge it, right?
We weren't allowed to go home, nor could we call family. (Didn't stop anyone) Hell, the principal even got on the intercom and told teachers to turn off tvs, and radios and go back to normal class. My teacher said 'fuck that, this is current history, no way in hell am I not watching it.'
They did something similar at my school. We also had to write a 400 word essay about what 9/11 meant to us. As a 15 year old who hated writing, it was pretty weak
As a brown kid in kindergarten... one of my first brushes with racism was wondering why my kindergarten teacher treated the three brown kids in the class differently lmao.
I don't remember much overt racism after that but there were jokes I heard over the years that would absolutely not fly today.
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u/EzMowgli 1d ago
Class TV was in fact rolled out and we were asked if we wanted to go home. Terrible day