Isn't that always a good place to start?
"When students don’t know 9/11; Educators rethink their lessons for children too young to remember" by Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff | September 11, 2009
For many, Sept. 11, 2001, is still a day vividly recalled, its details indelibly etched in minds. But on this eighth anniversary, a growing number of schoolchildren are entering classrooms with little or no memory of the day’s events, propelling teachers and school districts to grapple with how to teach a topic inexorably evolving from a current event into recorded history....
Monica Castro of Roxbury, a 14-year-old freshman at the South Boston Education Complex, is among the ranks with little recall. She was 6 at the time of the attacks and has learned about them since from teachers; however, yesterday she was not sure who committed them.
“I forgot - the Muslims or someone,’’ she said.
Yeah, or someone.
Monica Castro of Roxbury, a freshman at the South Boston Education Complex, recalls little about the Sept. 11 attacks because she was only 6 at the time. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)
How to shape and frame what is taught is a subject of debate, raising a tangle of difficult questions: How many graphic details should be included in a lesson? Is showing video of the day’s events appropriate? How young is too young to discuss the event?
I thought this was a school where you are supposed to learn things?
State curriculum guidelines offer little input. The only reference to 9/11 is made in US History II, which is typically taught in 10th or 11th grade. The guidelines suggest that teachers ask students to analyze America’s response to the terrorist attacks as part of a broader discussion of the consequences of the United States’ recent diplomatic initiatives.
Yet as another anniversary arrives, teachers at all grade levels say they feel a growing imperative to put this day into context for the many students who were not alive when it changed the world. Many are transforming the anniversary from a day of remembrance to a day of teachable moments.
If you really tried to teach it you would be fired.
At C.T. Douglas School in Acton, fifth- and sixth-graders will listen to a morning announcement noting that today is 9/11, and then teachers will explain that sometimes bad things happen that are difficult to understand.
“We tell them . . . that there are very angry people in the world and that we have to focus on the things that we can control,’’ said Chris Whitbeck, the principal. “That their job is to be the best person they can possibly be.’’
In other words DON'T ASK QUESTIONS and DON'T EVEN THINK about all the UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, LIES, and ANOMALIES of 9/11, kids!!
Just RETREAT INTO YOURSELF and BELIEVE YOUR BRAIN-WASHERS!!
Specifics of the attacks will not be discussed, though if pupils ask questions, Whitbeck said, their questions will be answered....
Related: My 9/11 Investigation
Just thought I would throw that out there for you since the teachers can not talk about it.
Yet specialists said that teaching about Sept. 11 can carry risks for educators because it remains a politically and emotionally fraught topic.
And WHY should that get in the way of EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION and EVIDENCE?
“Once you get to the things that matter - who did it, how it was interpreted, what the aftermath was, how the country responded, the extent that it was used as a justification for the war in Iraq - you are treading on incredibly shaky ground,’’ said Meira Levinson, a professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Education with a specialty in civic education.
Translation: You CAN NOT TELL the TRUTH in AmeriKa's schools!!
No wonder I was so frustrated in my final years!
Another challenge is dispelling myths. Fox said she is confronted with 11th- and 12th-grade students who believe that the attacks were the work of a great conspiracy, a theory gleaned from the Internet.
“For the past three years, that’s what they’ve been talking about,’’ she said....
Then MAYBE the KIDS are not as stoo-pid as the MSM make them out to be!
It sure does EXPLAIN a LOT in terms of the FAILURE of the WAR AGENDA to gain traction these days!!
The KIDS KNOW 9/11 was a LIE and they KNOW GOVERNMENT LIES to them!
My comment:
The biggest myth of 9/11 is that fire somehow caused THREE steel towers to collapse at free-fall speed straight into their own footprints -- including one building that wasn't even hit by a plane -- contradicting the immutable law of physics, an anomaly that has never occurred before or since.
Be that as it may, I certainly do not expect schools, government, or the mainstream media to tell us the truth about 9/11. You all lost me when you lied about Iraq, and I did not like what I found when I investigated 9/11 for myself.
Maybe the kids could start here: http://www.ae911truth.org/
Ask your physics professor how it is possible for those buildings to fall that way and see what they say.
Maybe that is why the Globe stayed away from the classroom this year:
"Building a life around a hole in the heart; Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the children of the terrorists’ victims are still coming to terms with their utterly unfathomable loss" by Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff | September 11, 2010
For many of these young people, this ninth anniversary of the attacks brings painful memories of terrifyingly chaotic and unfathomable moments in their households. But like other anniversaries, it also brings new understandings. With another year passed, they have more highly developed thinking, allowing them to process the tragedy in more sophisticated ways....
For many children of Sept. 11 victims, one of the most difficult things was the very public nature of the loss. Many of the children felt singled out, different from classmates and friends. The feeling is especially intense when the anniversary rolls around and the spotlight finds them again....
Like the Globe did?
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