DID FCPS Talk about 9/11?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
They haven’t forgotten about it. I literally just watched a documentary about Oklahoma City a few weeks ago, but it’s not healthy to dwell on these things constantly. Other things take priority. |
Anonymous
|
It was mentioned in our morning news and the new World Trade Center and Pentagon were the background pictures for the Moment of Silence.
Between staff there was interesting discussion during lunch. Many of the teachers were preschool age or not even born yet in 2001. They were interested in hearing what more senior teachers experienced that day. |
Anonymous
|
We talked about 9/11 at home. And they talked about it at our HS, including a moment of silence in the announcements. Our home conversation was really fulsome. Going into the whys of the attack and a lot of questions of what it felt like for us as our lived experience.
I was thinking about the earlier posters Pearl Harbor analogy, and I think the difference, at least for me, was my parents were born after Pearl Harbor so they had no lived experience to share. I know Pearl Harbor day is 12/10 the same way I know which day is Christmas. But I don’t wake up on 12/10 like I do 9/11 reliving the day each year. There is a solemness to each of my 9/11s that’s etched into my soul because we lived it. |
Anonymous
Isn’t Pearl Harbor Day 12/7? |
Anonymous
Yes. And, like 9/11 people remembered it clearly because their lives changed as a result. Big change. Teens graduating from high school went to war instead of college or work. Women went to work in factories. Ration cards, etc. No metal toys-no new bikes, etc. for children. |
Anonymous
No first PP, but quoted PP do you spend a lot of time thinking about Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7? I'd argue that day was at least as significant, possibly moreso (would have never dropped atomic bombs without it), but Gen X and beyond barely think about it. I had a friend who mentioned it every year in college and we all thought it was one of her adorable quirks. |
Anonymous
| A lot of current teachers, especially elementary school teachers, were very born (some might not have even seen born yet) in 2001. What do you expect them to talk about? This is history now. |
Anonymous
|
My kids’ schools both talked about it.
|
Anonymous
My grandparents were children during the Depression, during World War II, and had my mother a few years after the war ended. As a child I heard a lot more about the Depression than I ever heard about Pearl Harbor. Not every historical event affects families/people the same way. |
Anonymous
I mean the thing about 9/11 that caused it to stick in everyone's mind is because we watched it slowly unfold on television. Most things like this are basically over by the time you learn about them. This one wasn't. |
Anonymous
Agree. And, there were also a lot more Americans who witnessed it in person. In NYC and in DC. And, a lot more families--especially in NYC and NJ--affected by it personally. But, Pearl Harbor resulted in WWII. And, 9/11 resulted in many young Americans going to the Middle East. However, in WWII, most families had someone serving in the war--in extended families, if not immediate families. And, there were war posters, war bonds, celebrities participated in these. There was also rationing. The war was on the front page most every day. Go do a little research. And, as a PP said, it resulted in the atomic bomb. (And, FWIW, my uncle was convinced it saved his life. He was in the Marines and preparing for the invasion.) |
Anonymous
| Our school did a lesson on it in advisory period. |
Anonymous
| why do they need to talk about it? |
Anonymous
| My 7th grader said they watched clips and interviews. She also shared that most of the class was crying by the end. |
Anonymous
They don’t need to. Some did and some didn’t. |