Current Events > What did your school do during 9/11? >_>

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My middle school did jack shit. They didn't tell us anything at all during the day. I didn't know anything was even happening until I came home from school and saw the news. The next day, they talked about it in homeroom a bit and had a moment of silence and that was it >_>

What did your school do?
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Had our parents get us.
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I literally saw it happening right out my window, so there was no hiding it. I know we ended up having lunch early and our principal was talking to us about it a bit during lunch. Then lots of kids got picked up early by their parents, including myself.

I only found out about the Pentagon and Flight 93 though when my mom told me about it on our way home.
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Cheater87 posted...

Had our parents get us.

This
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I was in college, in a totally different country.. but it was still all everyone talked about during classes.
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neither the school nor my teacher even mentioned it day of. i was in the 4th grade i think.

i found out because a kid in recess told me that some kids were being picked up by their parents because of a terrorist attack.

it wasnt until i got home and saw my dad watching it on the news i actually found out what happened:
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Parents picked us up we stayed in home room all day
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I was in college, they canceled classes after the 2nd plane hit and set up tvs in the common areas for students to watch.
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They sent us home.

I'm not sure because my father picked me up just a few minutes after the news started spreading in school.
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Nothing much. Some of the students talked about it, but that was about it.
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Nothing. I was in Hawaii, so the event occurred well before school started. There was some mention of it in morning class, but otherwise it was business as usual.

I dont remember. Probably nothing.
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I live in NJ. They told us they were spraying for bugs so we couldnt go out for recess

Also I think I remember seeing stuff on the tv in class? I didnt really understand what was going on. I was in 5th grade but didnt really know that something like this could happen
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They wheeled in a crt after the first strike and we watched the second tower get hit. After that period we just kind of continued the day as usual.
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Teach
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They didn't do jack shit. No teacher or student were talking about it, not even a passing mention.
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I was in middle school. They basically were like "Something bad happened in New York.". I don't think they entirely knew what was going on either.
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They told us and then we went on with our activities because we were in elementary school and most of us couldn't understand what the significance of it was.
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The teachers just put the news on instead of teaching class

The teachers gave us a brief update and then we kept going.

It was already on TV when I went to school in the morning.
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I was in nyc, Park slope Brooklyn across the river from Manhattan where the attack happened

The school kept us until parents started showing up like crazy to pick us all up

The air was dark and paper was flying everywhere didnt realize how close we were to Manhattan

NeonOctopus posted...

My middle school did jack shit. They didn't tell us anything at all during the day. I didn't know anything was even happening until I came home from school and saw the news. The next day, they talked about it in homeroom a bit and had a moment of silence and that was it >_>

What did your school do?

Same as you. They didn't tell us.
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

The teachers gave us a brief update and then we kept going.

It was already on TV when I went to school in the morning.

Central PA. They didn't do anything that I remember. I was watching the news during a library study hall.
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I remember we had a fire drill, and the gym teacher mentioned something about a tragedy. I thought a kid had fallen down the stairs. Didn't find out until I got home and the news was on instead of Pokemon
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Antifar posted...

I remember we had a fire drill, and the gym teacher mentioned something about a tragedy. I thought a kid had fallen down the stairs. Didn't find out until I got home and the news was on instead of Pokemon

Were you sad that you couldn't watch pokemon? >_>
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I was in college, they didn't do anything.
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I heard about it on the news before heading to high school. First class, the teacher had class as normal but few people were paying attention. Second class, news. Lunch, I and other students I normally hung out with gathered in a classroom with news on. Third class was my off period, news. Last class of the day, the class put it up for a vote and decided that we had heard enough news for the day and had class as normal.
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9th grade. Most of the teachers left the TVs on while they tried to teach, but no one really was paying attention to class and most teachers just gave up on lessons.

I remember saying that it was probably Osama Bin Laden and no one knew who that was. I said "You'll all certainly know now". Sure enough his face was everywhere over the next few days.
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NeonOctopus posted...

Were you sad that you couldn't watch pokemon? >_>

Oh absolutely. I had to watch the fucking Wild Thornberries.
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was sitting in a literature course in middle school when the teacher turned the tv on. watched the towers get hit and the first one fall, went to lunch (at 10 fucking am) and told my friends (who didn't believe me), and then got pulled out early.
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I was in a current events class so the teacher just had us watch the news all period.
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I was getting ready to go to work and was almost late cause I was glued to the tv.
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I was in middle school and it was the first game of the season for our basketball team. They cancelled the game but classes and the rest of the school day carried on as usual. They didnt show us anything on TV and the teachers didnt really mention anything either.

I had multiple teachers from NY. my first period teacher had it on the news and was crying hard. Kids in the class were trying to calm her down.

My science teacher was from NY and had it on TV and had tears but wasnt sobbing. She looked at me and my friend Shawn (both from NY) and screamed at us for just talking and acting like everything is fine. How can you guys be fine when they hit the towers you are from New York!

Me: Well i moved from NY like three years ago, none of my bigger family ever lived in NY.

Shawn: Im from buffalo, its messed up though

She wasnt happy with that answer.
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i was in college at the time and classes hadn't started yet. i woke up at like 10:30 am and came downstairs to find my dad, who was sent home from work, watching the news.
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Walk in the halls wispering to each other. I was in 4th grade.

Hands on chest *gasp* type thing.

was in 6th grade social studies class at the time. my teacher turned on the news after the first tower got hit and we watched it for the remainder of that class. tons of students were being picked up by their parents and i don't remember actually getting anything done that day. it's all we were talking about it in every class.
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I was in college. The planes hit right after my first class of the day....the rest of classes were cancelled. I ended up in the lounge of the student union with a bunch of friends and spent the day playing cards and watching the news coverage.
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Some teachers had the TV on so they could follow what was happening, and others said they weren't going to let it affect classes and carried on as usual.

A bunch of us 7th/8th graders still headed out for our second day at this outdoor team building adventure thing. Once we got out there we got in a big circle and talked about it for a bit (don't remember what was said) then went on with the day.
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I was in middle school. We came back from lunch and the teacher in my class spent the whole period talking about it and its significance and kept saying we were going to go to war. She was pretty intense about it
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They turned on the news at school and we watched it there. I don't remember if we were sent home. I'm sure there was an announcement or something at least.
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I was 19 and college didn't start until late September.
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We had an assembly where the administration laid out the details.
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We watched it on TV then I got signed out early.

The after school scene was pretty wild, people in the neighborhood were getting weapons together because they thought that we would be under attack again.

There was nothing on TV, I just played NBA Street. Lol
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Watched the news all day long.
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