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Seriously why wouldn't you tell your students the truth. If you don't tell them the truth, they're going to pass it around themselves. And with the way kids like to exaggerate things, it was only a matter of time before those planes were equipped with small nuclear weapons, and that the towered tipped over from the impact and took out the brooklyn bridge* *actual thing another student told me
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Doc Friday posted:I was a little kid OP, so I don't remember poo poo. I remember most of my childhood better than I remember the last several years of my life.
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Sep 11, 2016 18:50
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Bert Roberge posted:good lord I hope you beheaded her We did, but for a different reason. She got called to grand jury dury and forgot to leave our homework assignments in the sub's lesson plan. When she came back in a month got really mad we didn't do the homework she didn't assign us, because we "should've known to do it". She gave us 3 days to do a month's worth of homework. oval office
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Sep 11, 2016 18:52
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Renegret posted:We did, but for a different reason. Proof that many teachers deserve their lousy pay. Elementary school teachers and the like are being babysat as much by the kids as vice versa. An alternative solution to keep the idiots off the streets. Costs must be kept low.
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Sep 11, 2016 18:54
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a dog from hell posted:Proof that many teachers deserve their lousy pay. Most teachers r fukin scum. Bring on the Battlefield Earth knowledge uploading machines.
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Sep 11, 2016 18:56
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I was 14. As soon as i got home i logged into everquest to level up in Velketor's Labyrynth by repeatedly killing ice spiders.
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Sep 11, 2016 19:06
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I was knee deep in some cheerleader sliz, later some nerd told us what happened and I gave him an atomic wedgie
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Sep 11, 2016 19:08
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whatup nerds, it's me, the guy that belongs in this thread. I don't remember the day of, but I sure as poo poo remember the breakfast diner me and my old man would go to every weekend getting plastered with pictures, flags, and newspaper clippings
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Sep 11, 2016 19:10
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Doc Friday posted:I was a little kid OP, so I don't remember poo poo. Why even take your kid to the WTC it's not like he's going to remember it!
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Sep 11, 2016 19:11
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Renegret posted:We did, but for a different reason. I've never been so angry over a person I've never met.
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Sep 11, 2016 19:13
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I remember being told of the tragedy of 9/11, but it didn't feel real until I saw it on popular mTV television show Total Request Live.
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Sep 11, 2016 19:16
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later on in life i learned more about what was going on in the news and so forth from Sage Francis in this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpzLYXBxbk
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Sep 11, 2016 19:22
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Renegret posted:I was 13, in my 7th grade Social Studies class. Ms. G is a bad person.
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Sep 11, 2016 19:28
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Have any of you eaten freedom fries? We didn't get them in the UK
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no_one posted:Have any of you eaten freedom fries? UK got Imperialism Chips?
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flerp posted:i dont remember anything that happened that day tho R3M posted:same except 3 Doc Friday posted:I was a little kid OP, so I don't remember poo poo.  you know what they say - you can't forget what you never remembered in the first place R3M posted:we should be friends forums underdude
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Sep 11, 2016 21:22
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I was 8, my dad freaked out and bought a ton of emergency supplies and food, chef boyardee included. Also I was fat and probably upset that I couldn't dig into that sweet boyardee goodness
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Sep 11, 2016 22:20
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it was the day after my 15th birthday and i had food poisoning so i got to stay home from school. i sat around and played age of empires 2 all day as i recall
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I was six years old. My mom picked me up from school early and when we got home I saw the second tower collapse on tv. Mom was freaking out because dad was working near the Pentagon at the time, and the lines went down while she was on the phone with him. I remember being very confused as to why everyone was doing such a bad job of flying planes that day, and the fact that my mom had no idea how to explain terrorism to a six-year-old didn't help. Back then my friends and I played a lot of Red Alert 2 so once I was told the plane crashes were intentional I assumed Russia was involved. My dad was/is okay by the way
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Winter Fresh posted:I was about ten which means we were just old enough for my entire grade to be forced into learning and performing Lee Greenwoods God Bless the USA in front of various crowds of people.. my favorite part was how we would sit down in the middle of the song and when Lee would sing "STAND UP" we would all stand up together it was great Was this every fifth grade class in America? I was ten when 9/11 happened and they made us sing that song too, but they replaced "I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me" with "I won't forget those who died on that Tuesday morning". My Mom had CNN on before I went to school, so I got to watch the towers get hit then be rushed to school. No one at school talked about it at all, but they just ended the school day with "Due to today's events, chess club is canceled". My brother lived in Manhattan at the time and didn't call us until that night, so it was a pretty weird day. It was weirder considering how much Election 2000 was aired everywhere in our school. After that day, they just assumed our parents explained it to us and jumped into this intense hyper-patriotism with flags and songs for the entire rest of the year and a good portion of middle school. GewuerzKahn posted:They skipped one or two episodes of Dragon Ball Z in Germany and aired instead boring news. In the US, the new season of Dragonball Z started on September 10th (Saiyaman saga) and I was worried they'd stop showing it, but they didn't.
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I was 10. Didn't really mean much to me as I was a limey kid and America was so far away, but the way that the adults around reacted was what drilled home how serious it was. Teachers called an immediate assembly (never happened before) to announce it, came home to find my mum and dad glued to the news channel in total disbelief of what had happened, totally derelict of duty for simple things like cooking dinner for me and my brothers or making sure we went to bed on time. For them, it was like reliving 22nd November 1963. Really hosed up, but so far away that it wasn't really impactful on their day to day lives. It wasn't until July 7th 2005 that we Brits really understood and could properly empathise with how Americans felt on September 11th 2001.
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i was like 9 and when i heard a plane hit the world trade center, i assumed it was a biplane because i was and still am a loving moron
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What I'm getting from all this is that kids around my age: -Thought the explosions were cool -Were happy about going home early -Only knew about this kind of stuff from video games (if at all) -Worried about missing DBZ That pretty much sums it up for me, other than my friends and I making paper airplanes to throw at each other, this is really the defining experience of the post-9/11 generation
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symbolic posted:ayyy, what's good too-young-to-remember crew hopes and dreams? the only cure for that poison is the liquor bottle, hope this helps 
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lol if u have "hopes and dreams"
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i dont even know my own age right now how do u expect me to do maths?
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Sep 12, 2016 01:10
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2 years later in 6th grade i was bored and done with my math homework so i started making a custom math test like the benchmark tests we were given, but with my own word problems like if the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man can laser eye one story of a building in 15 seconds how long does it take him to collapse an 18 story building and i never thought about it until now but that may have been inspired by the twin towers attack as well
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Is this a banme thread? Cause it sounds like a banme thread. Incidentally I was born 6 years after 9/11.
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I was 13 and just remember spending the entire day terrified that my dad (who worked in the nearby NYSE building) was affected. He wasnt, thankfully. Some kid did lose a parent that day though  this school was in NJ, so many working parents commuted.
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Did anyone else know someone who would tell everybody some family member died on 9/11 but later you found out it was of some unrelated cause 4000 miles away?
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circa 2001 i was playing the gently caress out of corncob 3d. i was 8. it was a flight simulator... thing for our dos computer. look it entertained young me because it had a ton of weird features and you could exit your plane and walk around which added a whole layer of poo poo to do and i had never been exposed to 3D ACCELERATED GRAPHICS or VIDEO GAMES so well just look at it see that tower back there? basically the only building in the game. ya you can crash into it. you loving bet i spent a whole lot of my time trying to peg that tower at max speed. lol
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Renegret posted:Seriously why wouldn't you tell your students the truth. I was twelve at the time. People trying not to tell students too much causes some serious confusion. I remember somehow via the game of telephone a list of buildings that were closed became a list of buildings destroyed and my whole class thought a ton of buildings in loving Cleveland got blown up. Oddly enough we watched at least the first collapse on TV, it was some time after that they cut everything off and the rumors started. wilderthanmild fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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Sep 12, 2016 04:55
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Are ITT threads allowed again?
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Sep 12, 2016 04:56
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mdm posted:Are ITT threads allowed again? They never stopped being allowed if you're a sovereign poster on the forums
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I was 22 days away from being 6, ama I remember sitting on the floor in front of the TV and being mad that they kept showing the same thing over and over again 'cause lol my parents didn't explain poo poo
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mdm posted:Are ITT threads allowed again? This is not a roleplaying ITT thread this is about real life experiences. god.
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please don't use the reserved ITT acronym if you're not posting a roleplaying thread or a thread about the sadly dead educational institution that bears the same acronym, or a meta thread where we roleplay being students in that sadly dead educational institution
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Sep 12, 2016 06:38
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I do what I want
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Sep 12, 2016 06:49
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I was 3 and thought it was a TV show.
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I guess I'd say that 9/11 had no impact on my life other than being something to make jokes about, and a litmus test to see who to be friends with (if they dont think 9/11 is funny, then no-go)
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