This surpirsed me.

[Lil_Tink]

Today is 9/11 as we all know. Today in school we didn't do one thing having any relavence to it. We didnt even have a moment of silence. This honestly hurt me inside, I am not saying we have to dedicate our school day to this, it would be nice if we did, but we dont have to. All I am asking for our school to take one minute of our school day to be silent in honor of all the people who lost their lives, was I asking to much?

 

[Alladin18]

No its not i totally agree with you in two of the six of my hours in school we watched movies on 9/11 we didnt do a silence or anything, but i wish we would have cause it would have been really nice to, cause of all the peoples lifes that have been takein away from them. but yeah i totally agree with you, your school should have did something like silence or watch a movie on 9/11.

 

[GirlWithSpunk]

We had a moment of silence, but only for like, 1 minute...we were all like: "Thats it?" It was that short....I felt more should be done....

 

[Sparx]

we didn't do a thing, except I had to write a paragraph or so about it for my english journal.

 

[tiff13]

We had about 10 seconds of silence . Not one of my teachers said a thing about 9/11. Its so wrong. I agree with GirlWIthSpunk. More should have been done.

 

[Lil_Tink]

I mean Im not asking us to pray or anything, because I understand how we cant do that in school, but atleast something!

 

[SBubba18]

My school plans for 9/11 got all messed up b/c of a lock down this morning...for those of u that doesn't know what a lock down is...it is when someone dangerous got into the school or in on school property...and it was a real lock down we had 2...it was not a practice...there was this guy across the street that was robbing houses and was carrying around a gun and ax...it was scary...and i am dead serious about it 2...but...our plans was...for 1stº...we would of talked about what happened during 9/11...2ndº watch tapes on it...3rdº have our moments of silence...then get back to our regular day...we didn't get 2 do any of it...except for the moment of silence

 

[Sparx]

My school plans for 9/11 got all messed up b/c of a lock down this morning...for those of u that doesn't know what a lock down is...it is when someone dangerous got into the school or in on school property...and it was a real lock down we had 2...it was not a practice...there was this guy across the street that was robbing houses and was carrying around a gun and ax...it was scary...and i am dead serious about it 2...but...our plans was...for 1stº...we would of talked about what happened during 9/11...2ndº watch tapes on it...3rdº have our moments of silence...then get back to our regular day...we didn't get 2 do any of it...except for the moment of silence

I've been in many, many real lockdowns. Most because of a crime comitted near the school, but I've been in a few with people actually in the school. Glad everything was okay over tehre.

 

[DollfieDreams]

you know...i was just thinking the same thing. we ALWAYS have a moment of silence on our announcements in the morning, so that was routine, but it wasn't specifally for 9-11. the only thing we did pertaining to it was talk about it in my literature and the arts class and all of the ammendments and rights that were changed because of it. there was no "honor-ing" or something special for it. just another day.

 

[Sparx]

its sad. We get two or three sets of announcments a day, not one mention, not one moment of silence. Do people just not want to remember? Today was just another day at my school.

 

[tinkerbelle22]

We had a special moment of silence today in homeroom, along with three Seniors each reading a passage they wrote about the attacks. Some students were also going to tie a yellow ribbon around the flag, but we never saw them do it. So we didn't do all that much either, but at least it was something

 

[pigletgirl]

We didn't really do anything either. When we said the pledge, we had a moment of silence, but thats it. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. We should of had the day off.

 

[DollfieDreams]

i wouldnt be surprised if there are people out there that want to believe it didnt happen, and they dont want to remember something like that. they are people stuck in this denial state of mind where they believe that nothing like that could EVER happen to them. EVER happen to america in this day and age. i mean, that stuff's for the history books, right?

it is sad.

 

[Babyjustrun]

We had an entire minute of silence. I was extremely mad when the girl I sat next to was trying to keep herself from laughing. How was it funny? It was like laughing during the playing of O'Canada or the reveille during Remembrance Day ceremony. And my teacher attempted to talk about it, but no one was very much interested in it.
When I got home from school I listened to Condeleeza Rice thank Canada for it's help in the time of crisis live from Halifax, about three hours away. Earlier today she was in a nearby town visiting McKenna.
Last night I watched a thing on 9/11 which almost made me cry watching it. I've been paying for attention to it, I'm currently getting through a book written about the events by German journalists, which has the real stories of people who escaped the building. I also tried to watch Flight 93, but I kept tearing up, and I had my eyes closed when the hijackers took over. It scared me, it really did.

 

[SKEEBO SAYS WHA?]

we had a moment of silence thats it. on oct 11 2001 our school had another moment of silence then they played the national anthem

 

[polysisterchick]

mmmm.. we had patriotic day...

and no it wasn't because of 9/11.. it was because it's spirit week/homecoming.

*my school is ********... homecoming used to be during basketball season but I personally think they changed it to soccer because we are half decent at it*

no moment of silence, sure the attacks was mentioned once for the first 3/4 of the day, but then during history, finally, Mr. Garraway acknowledged it / had us remember for about 25 minutes. I was like "GO MR. G!!"

but it's sad when you go to a christian school and for 3/4ths of the day they don't have any moments or stuff along the lines of that

 

[Babyjustrun]

My school plans for 9/11 got all messed up b/c of a lock down this morning...for those of u that doesn't know what a lock down is...it is when someone dangerous got into the school or in on school property...and it was a real lock down we had 2...it was not a practice...there was this guy across the street that was robbing houses and was carrying around a gun and ax...it was scary...and i am dead serious about it 2...but...our plans was...for 1stº...we would of talked about what happened during 9/11...2ndº watch tapes on it...3rdº have our moments of silence...then get back to our regular day...we didn't get 2 do any of it...except for the moment of silence

I find this strange.
There was a lockdown in Cali, as I heard on CNN.
It's strange how this stuff happens on the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on the US of the 21st century.

 

[cheerchick]

We had a moment of silence which didn't last even a minute and then during 2nd period n then in History we talked about it all period and started to watch a movie about it.

You would think that you would at least have a moment of silence???

 

[pacificnorthwester]

My American Government teacher dedicated the entire period to it today! By the end of it I wanted to cry. . .He just brought it all back and shoved it in deeper this time. We also had a moment of silence.

 

[DramaQueen]

I'm from Canada. But 9/11 affected me and my classmates as much as it did anyone else.
Normally every school year since, on sept 11 there was a moment of silence, flags at half mast, and acknowledgment on the announcements.
But this year....NOTHING!!!

I was shocked.
Nothing at all. No acknowledgement, no moment of silence, the flag wasn't even at half mast.
I found it very odd that on the fifth anniversary there was nothing!

Since we're Canadian, we make a big deal out of rememberance day, and I don't think we would ever for go a rememberance day assembly, so I find it odd that something that has directly affected our generation wouldn't be recongnized.
(don't get me wrong, I am in NO way shape or form saying rememberance day isn't as important as 9/11. But they are both a day for remembering lives lost.)

I just was shocked that no one even mentioned it at all.