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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spoke with my 7 yr old about it today because his teacher brought it up in class. He had a lot of very specific questions. I wasn't planning on giving him this many details at this age. I didn't mention the word terrorist or any group but said bad people and stressed that airport security wasn't what it is today. He already knew a lot of details about that day before our conversation and DH is always flying. I don't have an answer for why this happened. So many answers to why bad things happen...[/quote]

Me again. I'm wondering if this was his actual teacher or if he heard from older kids at school. I can't imagine a teacher talking about the planes to a group of 7 year olds. [/quote]

My 7 year old's teacher let a class conversation take a turn of its own and unwittingly introduced 9/11 to 6 and 7 year olds. Egregiously poor judgment, intuition, and classroom management on her part. Unforgiveable.[/quote]

Wow, you scare me.  After it happened, and still today, I think "never forget". I never expected to hear people saying "never know".  It wasn't "about the planes" any more than Pearl Harbor was "about the planes". There are bad people in the world and they attack us. [/quote]

Not "never know" - more like "not find out at school why mommy and her family went to 12 funerals in fall of '01, why mommy still cries when she sees video of the day and wonders if those falling bodies in NY were her friends, why mommy - 14 years later - is still finding out about acquaintances from her childhood who died that day." My NJ town was absolutely devastated on 9/11. I intended to tell my kids about it, but it snuck up on me and I never thought the teacher would have brought it up with first graders. Bad on me for assuming. And I have a pretty good idea of how the conversation unrolled because I actually talked to the teacher about it. My continued anger is that the teacher thought it wasn't that big a deal. To her, 9/11 was as real as Pearl Harbor. For me and my family, no.[/quote]

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