Anonymous wrote:Maybe the school staff were too busy today trying to help kids who show up for a new school year with trauma, learning difficulties, and tons of unmet needs. Maybe they triaged providing the kind of performative gesture that you need to the bottom today.

+100

And I don't know what people expect kids to get out of a 9/11 remembrance. Especially now that many kids have a device in their pocket that gives them information about the terrible things that are going on in the world all the time. I do think they need to learn it as part of history but not as some kind of remembrance.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the number of fatalities from the 9/11 attacks is tiny compared with the number of fatalities from the COVID pandemic we just went through.

The Troll is strong in this one!

The statement is accurate.

People forget quickly. Way back in 1983 my Frat threw a “Let’s Get Bombed” Pearl Harbor Day Keg Party and it offended the old teachers and staff.

Draft Kings did a Never Forget 9/11 Betting Promotion this year. Tacky as my keg party.

Most people are ignorant of the size of twin towers and can’t comprehend that many people being murdered all at once

This post got me thinking....

I agree that 9/11 is not something that needs to be widely commemorated everywhere every year. (If I need some sort of cred to say this- I was literally on the WH complex that day and lost family members.)

Do schools/workplaces even day anything about D Day? Pearl Harbor?

What national tragedies do we even say anything about anymore? I can't think of a single one, at least on a large scale. And I honestly don't think we should, certainly not beyond the ten year mark....

I am 40 yo and I do remember the 9/11 attacks each year. This year I watched the National Geographic documentary series which I thought was really well done. Obviously, it was a very significant moment in US history. Even though I don't know anyone who was killed and I myself did not witness or experience any of the attacks, the day evokes a lot of emotions for me.

But I think being upset that a school made an announcement in the afternoon instead of the morning is ridiculous. I would not expect them to make an announcement at all. I hope kids are learning about it during their history classes.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like the number of fatalities from the 9/11 attacks is tiny compared with the number of fatalities from the COVID pandemic we just went through.

The Troll is strong in this one!

Why do you need the school to acknowledge it. If it is important, you, as the parents, can mention it and commemorate it however you choose. I talked to my kids about what happened and why we remember and commemorate it. They said they learned about it in school but we had the commemoration at home. I don't need the school to acknowledge it; teach it yes, but not acknowledge it.

They did nothing at my work. We are not in NYC where it is a big thing

I feel like the number of fatalities from the 9/11 attacks is tiny compared with the number of fatalities from the COVID pandemic we just went through.

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Anonymous wrote:What is a QO?

A quince orange.

I laughed out loud at this and I have no idea why?!?

QO has issues today that needed attention yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:What is a QO?

It’s MCPS football magnet school.

😂

It's not that big of a deal. There may be some families around here who were impacted, but forgetting to announce is really not that big of a deal.

-53 yr old.

+1

It's now history. Do we need to announce every historical event?

- another 53 year old

I’m 44. Somehow 9/11 doesn’t feel like history to me yet, maybe as it continues to impact our lives. Remember back when you could accompany family members all the way to the plane gate, before there was a TSA? I moved from DC to LA and I’m used to really invasive security searches at Disneyland—today I learned there didn’t used to be any at all.

Little things like that keep the memories fresh — life changed that day for everyone in the US permanently. I can’t at the moment think of other events where that has happened (though I’m sure there are many.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is a QO?

It’s MCPS football magnet school.

😂

It's not that big of a deal. There may be some families around here who were impacted, but forgetting to announce is really not that big of a deal.

-53 yr old.

+1

It's now history. Do we need to announce every historical event?

- another 53 year old

Also agree. It is just another historical event to my college kids.

Anonymous wrote:There are many things to get upset about but this isn’t one of them.

+1 Let us not pile on to QO bashing just because.

Maybe the school staff were too busy today trying to help kids who show up for a new school year with trauma, learning difficulties, and tons of unmet needs. Maybe they triaged providing the kind of performative gesture that you need to the bottom today.