Perhaps nothing would happen that day at school, just thinking of the all the days I spend in school as a teacher, and unless someone has a TV or radio on, or looking on the internet, I don't know what's going on in the outside world, outside of the campus. Not unless something happens in the immediate neighbourhood, or someone comes in and tells everyone.
Given the scope and horrifying nature of the attacks, it just seems
to me that teachers would've been alerted, if not immediately as it was happening, then at least at lunch break. Like when JFK was killed, most school kids knew about it immediately, in class, and some were let out of school early because of it. Considering that our country was under attack on 9/11...I just can't fathom how schools DIDN'T immediately spread the word.
Something like 9/11 should have had something happening in the following days though in a school.
Definitely. It's hard for me to imagine a school just saying, "oh well, let's just ignore it!" That flies in the face of everything I heard in the days that followed the attacks, as schoolchildren around the country were shown dealing with the attacks.
It almost makes me wonder if perhaps sfbloodbrother doesn't
remember it. I have ZERO memories of the day JFK was killed. Zero. Yet I have crystal clear memories of the funeral procession, and especially the riderless horse with the backward boots. But NOTHING at all on the day he died.
I was in work on the day, and I didn't actually find out until the evening, when I turned the TV on. Think it happened mid-morning UK time.
The first plane hit a little before 9:00am NY time.
BTW I'm used to skys with no aeroplanes, that's this part of Inner Mongolia, somewhat off the main flight paths, and two flights a day to Beijing and Hohhot.
Interesting. The skies here where I live aren't near or in flight paths for LAX or anything, so it's extremely unusual to see large planes. Well...except for special occasions, like on New Year's Day, that is:
The stealth bombers fly over or near my house on their way to and from the Rose Parade.
Other than that, it's usually just helicopters and small private planes. There are a number of small airports in the area and a lot of people who pleasure fly in their planes on beautiful, clear days. I can always tell when there's a fire in the San Gabriel Mountains because I become aware of a lot of helicopters in that direction--or when there's a bad wreck on the 210 freeway and the news choppers are covering it.
