Current Events > Did they roll the TV into your classroom on 9/11 to show you the event?

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If you were in public school at the time, did they roll the TV stand in to shwo you 9/11 (or turn it on if there was one already in the room)?

I was in 2nd grade, and this didn't happen to me, but between stories from people I know, and probably 1000 or more comments I've seen online, it feels like I've heard this all over the place. Almost the exact same story. The teacher rolls the TV stand into the room, turns it on and there the towers are on fire.

Freshman at the time and my homeroom teacher took us down to the library to watch it. She was my favorite teacher and watching her sobbing was fucking heartbreaking

i was three

No, because I had already graduated about three months prior

I had just graduated ghat summer so no. I didn't have the 9/11 school experience. I spent that day at home with cnn on, and talking to people about it on the everquest.com message boards

Most people couldn't even get to school that day, I was on the west coast and on a military base so the gates were shut down and nobody could get in or even out of the base until some pentagon level orders were handed down.

My memory is seeing the first tower on TV. My school was walking distance from my house, and my parents let me walk at the time (small town but still kind of crazy in modern context). I got to school, and I was the only one in class (lmao). My teacher was there, and I told her "A plane hit the building in New York City!" and she told me "It was two planes. Another one hit the other building." and I was like "Oh." I knew that made it more serious even as an eight year old.

I was pretending to be sick and stayed home playing Neopets

No, they didn't tell us a damn thing. Yeah, that was probably a wise choice since we were pretty young, I was in 4th grade, but I wish I could have watched it at school.

Nah, we went to the auditorium, which was essentially a movie theater mixed with a stage.

I was a freshman in HS, and yeah..they wheeled TVs into most classrooms. I watched the second tower get hit in my Social Studies classroom.

All I remember is my teacher refused to put it on. I was in 4th grade, I believe.

WilliamPorygon posted...

No, because I had already graduated about three months prior

I thought you had to be born prior to the millennium to sign up for a gamefaqs account? So you could not have been three, don't be ridiculous.

VenusFly posted...

I thought you had to be born prior to the millennium to sign up for a gamefaqs account? So you could not have been three, don't be ridiculous.

I'm even younger than that and I was born "prior to the millennium."

Most of my classrooms had TVs already so we watched the footage all day

We didn't get a TV. Some lady just walked into our class and informed us about what was happening. I remember not taking it too seriously. I thought it was just a typical plane crash. Then later in the day during my science class, our teacher painted a very clear picture. He was like, "the World Trade Center is gone." It wasn't until then that I had experienced my oh shit moment.

VenusFly posted...

I thought you had to be born prior to the millennium to sign up for a gamefaqs account? So you could not have been three, don't be ridiculous.

Not sure if I follow you, but I think hes saying that he was 18 or 19 in 2001.

Nah, didn't know about it until school the next day

PSO was too hype

Not exactly, but every classroom did have tvs mounted on the wall. Every class was watching it all day wasn't much school work going on though.

History class was different, by then it was confirmed an act of terror and we listened to a speech and had to write a report about terrorism and it's effects.

Payzmaykr posted...

Not sure if I follow you, but I think hes saying that he was 18 or 19 in 2001.

Yeah, I graduated from high school in June 2001, is what I was saying. I remember I found out when I turned on the TV expecting to watch Louie Anderson's Family Feud.

I was already a working adult when 9/11 happened. I remember the internet was not responding. You couldnt open up any news website. We had to listen to a radio to find out what was happening. At around lunch they rolled in a tv to a conference room so we could watch the news.

No? I would think that would open them up to a lot of lawsuits. They did announce it over the PA though.

There were already TV's in the rooms, but they stopped teaching and everyone just watched.

Nah. I was asleep when it happened since I was living in Japan Timezone. Would have been around 10 pm when it occured. I was 5 years old and probably in bed. I didnt see it on the news till the next day and at home. Pretty sure there was an ongoing typhoon so didnt have school but need to verify with old news.

Edit: yeah i verified with old news. Typhoon Nari and Typhoon Danas occured during this time period.

No. In fact when the principal and her cronies were going door-to-door explaining each class about what happened they skipped mine so we learned about it from the other kids at lunch. Which of course included all the kiddie purple-monkey-dishwasher additions like "the Russians did it", "the Canadians did it" and my personal favorite, "aliens did it".

I lived on the west coast so 9/11 happened before school started. My mom didn't let me go to school that day for whatever reason so I was happy. I went and played some wrestling video game all day.

My teacher's daughter was a fight attendant. She randomly got a call from her saying she was okay. My teacher had no idea what she was talking about so her daughter told her. The teacher rolled the TV to the front of the class and we saw the second tower get hit live.

toadfan64 posted...

All I remember is my teacher refused to put it on. I was in 4th grade, I believe.

Good on them.

when i arrived at my first class of the day, a group of students was around a classroom tv watching footage of firefighters

the teacher promptly turned it off

I was in 7th grade Italian class. Another teacher came in, pulled my teacher out into the hall for a few minutes. When she came back we continued class like normal.

Through the rest of the day there were announcements of kids constantly being called to the office because their parents were taking them home (I live in CT). No one knew what happened, the best we were able to figure out was "a plane hit a building" and we were confused on why that was such big deal. I didn't know what happened until I got home that afternoon.

Yes. I was in History class. The teacher turned on the TV to show us some video, and the TV was on a news channel. The first plane had already hit, but not the second one. IIRC, she kept the TV on. I didn't know what the hell had happened. I almost thought that maybe the pilot of the first plane was drunk. It was only after the second one hit that it seemed coordinated. I definitely remember football practice being canceled that day.

i was in elementary school when 9/11 happened. the teacher explained verbally what happened, and showed a picture of what the world trade center used to look like. but they didn't roll a TV into the room or anything. not sure why, it might have been because i was only 10 and they didn't want to traumatize us, but i saw it when i went home that night.

TVs in my school were mounted on the walls of the classroom. Except my JROTC class. We didn't have one in there. Didn't even know anything was going on til the next class.

I was in college at the time. Had a buddy wake me up pounding on my door yelling "We're going to war!". Kept calling my parents cause I couldn't remember where one of my uncles worked, but I knew his office was downtown NY.

I was in college but it hadnt started yet (quarter system). I was working at a hardware store. We sold all our American flags before lunch.

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This. And the coverage was on every channel iirc

Nope. A TV was already installed in one of the corners so none had to be wheeled in.

Lol. I was 24.

Lessee...I was a senior in highschool and I believe I was either in homeroom or study hall when it went down. Classes continued like normal but everyone was talking about it though.

In retrospect they should have just cancelled classes since neither the teachers nor the majority of students could focus that day.

We talked about it iirc, but not a lot of 3rd graders really knew what was going on unless their parents stayed home from work to talk to them about what was happening.

I knew it was a weird morning though when I got up and after my shower, my mom, who had left for work awhile before I even woke up, had left the TV on from when she was watching the news that morning which had literally never happened before.

I probably would have been extremely confused if that didn't happen when my teacher started to talk to us about it.

I don't remember exactly what happened, but I'm pretty sure they sent us home early because there was a military base half an hour away and a lot of the kids were children of soldiers. I don't remember watching any of it at school, but I do remember watching it on the TV at home.

No

I found out when I got home.

I was in elementary school. We didn't even talk about it during the day. I had to hear what really happened from my brother while walking home-- he was in middle school, so I guess he was just old enough to watch the news that day.

My father picked me up from school before anyone even told us what had happened. There was some panic but I wasnt there long enough to hear anyone address the students.

10th grade. Computer teacher turned it on but had us continue working. Next period the teacher refused to turn it on but no one could focus so he gave in. When he turned the TV back on, the second tower had been hit.

I remember explaining to people who Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden were and them laughing at me saying that a group of angry losers from the desert couldn't do that much damage.

I was already in college but they did put TVs in the common areas for students to watch