It's always interesting hearing the experiences of others. I was in 11th grade in PA and walked into Spanish class with the TV on, which was odd. I thought it was a movie at first. My teacher said it was a really terrible accident. At this point only the first plane had hit.
Then the bell rang, he turned off the TV and wheeled the little cart into the corner, and we had an otherwise completely normal day. I've read of people in the Midwest that had school canceled, parents all over the country that rushing to pick up their kids from school. Maybe one or two people left early but if they did I never heard about it. Other people online have often said classes were essentially canceled and they watched the developments all day.
We just had classes like normal. We even had to go to the auditorium for a chocolate bar fundraiser during third period.
Midwesterner here! We weren't cancelled but most teachers and students didn't have the mental energy to do normal classes. We spent most of the day in the auditorium watching the news. My last class of the day I just remember the teacher saying that she couldn't watch any more news so we were having a study period. The thing I'll never forget were the kids that had already signed on with the military. Some of them went from jingo to oh no really quick.
It's been so long that I don't remember any specific "moods" the teachers were in, but really I just remember a normal day. I didn't see another tv on until I got home from school, and that's when I learned that more happened than a single plane of an unknown size hit one tower.
The staff must have known what was happening and maybe they had instructions to just "keep it together" for the students? I have no idea. In the end it's always strange to think on because most other people share experiences like yours.
Canadian here - we still had classes, but our teacher had a very serious talk with us about what happened, and told us to stay alert (iirc, there was chatter at the time that Ottawa may have prepping for an attack on Parliament).
The thing that sticks in my brain from that day was some kid on the school bus complaining that this happened on his birthday. Dickhead.
I was substitute teaching at a jr. high school in TX.
Roofers had knocked the tv cable loose during the summer so we were listening to the news on the radio.
A teacher went home on her lunch break and recorded about 30 minutes of the news on a VHS tape and brought it back to the school.
We hooked the tape into the school’s tv system and played it for the entire school.
My son was in 6th grade at that school. I remember going to sit with him in the cafeteria at lunch and the rumors rampant.
My daughter was 4th grade. Her school was watching it on TV as well.
Was a 4th grade kid in Texas as well. Cart got rolled in, and it played until my Mom picked me up from school. We had one kid running around convinced Houston was getting hit next.
That’s crazy. I’m from nowhere near NYC, and all we did in school that day was watch the news. In every class, just watched the news. I couldn’t imagine my teachers just shrugging and getting on with the day.
In NC in 3rd grade at the time and we were supposed to be going about our normal routine of switching classes between math and English and instead we walked into a class room and the teacher wasn’t there and neither was her daughter. Instead it was all of the 3rd graders and the other teacher. They tried explaining it to us but were pretty vague. All I knew was a plane crashed.
The teacher and her daughter missed because the Husband/dad was in New York on a business trip and had to be at the WTC. He couldn’t call out to tell them he was fine and they both were understandably very upset not knowing. Another girl found out the next day her dad had not made it out. So it had impact even here.
We didn’t have any classes for the rest of the day and we all went to the gym and they just had out all the basketballs and jump ropes etc. and let us play until our parents picked us up. Mine didn’t leave work so I just rode the bus home like normal.
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u/GandhisNukeOfficer 13h ago
It's always interesting hearing the experiences of others. I was in 11th grade in PA and walked into Spanish class with the TV on, which was odd. I thought it was a movie at first. My teacher said it was a really terrible accident. At this point only the first plane had hit.
Then the bell rang, he turned off the TV and wheeled the little cart into the corner, and we had an otherwise completely normal day. I've read of people in the Midwest that had school canceled, parents all over the country that rushing to pick up their kids from school. Maybe one or two people left early but if they did I never heard about it. Other people online have often said classes were essentially canceled and they watched the developments all day.
We just had classes like normal. We even had to go to the auditorium for a chocolate bar fundraiser during third period.