MS and ES it was mentioned as part of morning announcements.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost 3000 people in the US died in the 9/11 attacks and we mourn them and remember them.

But easily 3000 people are dying a week now from COVID in the US and we barely talk about them or mention their names.

Are we not horrified just because they aren't all dying in one building? Or because they are mostly old?

Covid has been literally every news cycle for the last six months. What are you talking about?

Yes, and it's being excused, and explained away by selfish COVIDIOTs all over the country, who just have to fly to Disneyland, because their poor delicate chlidren, who are such brave little soldiers for sitting on the couch watching Netflix, YouTube and TikTok are SO BORED and DESERVE a vacation. Daily we hear ad nauseum how "we're done with it" and "we just need to live our lives and the old and sick need to quarantine and never leave their houses" (obviously impossible, but these idiots don't care). Oh, and as one of those disposable preexisting conditions people (how stupid of me not to choose to have a genetic disorders), we're disposable.

Thousands more people died today? Whatever, they were probably old, fat or had preexisting conditions. OPEN MY KIDS' SCHOOL AND FROG MARCH TEACHERS BACK INTO CLASSROOMS TO BABYSIT FOR ME.

Get it now?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Almost 3000 people in the US died in the 9/11 attacks and we mourn them and remember them.

But easily 3000 people are dying a week now from COVID in the US and we barely talk about them or mention their names.

Are we not horrified just because they aren't all dying in one building? Or because they are mostly old?

People don’t care about COVID. Let’s talk about 9/11 like people talk about COVID and see how angry people get.
“Why should we care about 9/11 victims? More people die from the flu every year and we don’t have a day of remembrance for them.”
“Our economy was good before 9/11. More people die in car accidents every year. If we don’t fly, our airlines will go out of business and people will lose their jobs. All because you’re afraid of something that is statistically less likely to kill you than a car accident.”
“Grow up. Are you going to hide under your bed afraid of terrorism forever? I, for one, will be living my life.”
“A lot of those people had preexisting conditions. The data is skewed to create fear. Only 356 of those people actually died from terrorism. Many of them were obese so they couldn’t run down the stairs.”
Angry now?

Yes. Obese or old. If they chose to be younger or thinner, they could have run faster down those stairs.

Dismissive jerks.

Anonymous wrote:A student in my daughter's class asked why they don’t talk about it. Teacher replied “it was a long time ago”.
She’s a senior. Sad.

Wow. I understand not going into a lot of gory, age-inappropriate details to ES kids, but a high school teacher said that to seniors? Gross.

What is there to talk about? The life didn't change for these kids like it did for adults - the majority wasn't even born, all they know is how things are now. But in any event, they did talk in my daughter's FCPS 5th grade because she asked me (I was not even remembering/making the connection with the date until she brought it up). I just mentioned how airports and air travel changed. That is the only tangible thing that changed in my life with 9/11.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t really get this— what is there to talk about? Do you want to discuss Pearl Harbor day too?

There isn’t. I’m a teacher, and I would feel stupid bringing it up. No one does.

It's part of history now. There is no need to discuss it every year.

+1

I teach high school math so bringing it up would seem out of place. And half my students don’t even have their cameras on, nor do they readily volunteer in virtual learning right now so it would just be me giving an impromptu comment or speech. This seems more appropriate to be covered in history class at this point during the appropriate unit of study.

Also, the kids seem so tired of talking about negative events. DCPS is already having them do a bunch of lessons on COVID. I think they want to escape some of the negativity. They are already living through an unprecedented time.

3rd grader’s class talked about it and each kid wrote down a way they could show kindness in honor of the day. It was well done.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t really get this— what is there to talk about? Do you want to discuss Pearl Harbor day too?

There isn’t. I’m a teacher, and I would feel stupid bringing it up. No one does.

It's part of history now. There is no need to discuss it every year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t really get this— what is there to talk about? Do you want to discuss Pearl Harbor day too?

What is there to talk about?
The first responders
The ordinary heros
The way the country came together
The innocent lives lost
Show them the clip of President Bush throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium shortly after the attacks
Talk about how the American flag was flying high all over the country
Discuss what you remember about the day, where you were when you heard about it, your fears etc.

You get the idea.

This would be the equivalent of a teacher talking about where she was when Kennedy was shot when I was a kid. This doesn’t need to be discussed forever.

Anonymous wrote: This is why it is important to talk about it at home.

Future generations will never forget if we as parents talk about it every year, in any capacity. The selflessness and heroism displayed by the first responders should be discussed, especially now.

I was happy to hear it was discussed at both my kids' schools.

Yes, they did their jobs.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t really get this— what is there to talk about? Do you want to discuss Pearl Harbor day too?

There isn’t. I’m a teacher, and I would feel stupid bringing it up. No one does.

Most teachers don’t say anything about 9-11 on 9-11 and haven’t for the past 15 years.

Anonymous wrote:Almost 3000 people in the US died in the 9/11 attacks and we mourn them and remember them.

But easily 3000 people are dying a week now from COVID in the US and we barely talk about them or mention their names.

Are we not horrified just because they aren't all dying in one building? Or because they are mostly old?

You have to be spectacularly stupid to equate 9/11 to COVID-19.

Unless your argument is that China unleashed Covid on us on purpose?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t really get this— what is there to talk about? Do you want to discuss Pearl Harbor day too?

What is there to talk about?
The first responders
The ordinary heros
The way the country came together
The innocent lives lost
Show them the clip of President Bush throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium shortly after the attacks
Talk about how the American flag was flying high all over the country
Discuss what you remember about the day, where you were when you heard about it, your fears etc.

You get the idea.

Well, unless you were in the country while Muslim.

Anonymous wrote:Almost 3000 people in the US died in the 9/11 attacks and we mourn them and remember them.

But easily 3000 people are dying a week now from COVID in the US and we barely talk about them or mention their names.

Are we not horrified just because they aren't all dying in one building? Or because they are mostly old?

Covid has been literally every news cycle for the last six months. What are you talking about?