Some Teachers find 9/11 too “controversial”

[arista]

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Every child must study 9/11
it was a Shock to America
and the world.

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Any teaching skipping this should be demoted to assit. teacher

[lostalex]

It's the most important world event since ww2.

How can any history teacher ignore it?

[armand.kay]

we weren't taught this in school lol.

[arista]

It's the most important world event since ww2.

How can any history teacher ignore it?


Must be Political
Fecking Bastards

[Kizzy]

The curriculum is limited, they get the Tudors, WW2, Eyptians and the American wild wild west...

[arista]

But have a Day on 9/11
can be done

[lostalex]

any teacher that won't teach it should be sent to afghanistan to research for himself.

[MB.]

Pretty sure it's too recent to be included on any history syllabus anyway. I doubt kids today don't know about 9/11.

[lostalex]

Pretty sure it's too recent to be included on any history syllabus anyway. I doubt kids today don't know about 9/11.

it was 14 years ago. i went to school in the 90's and we learned about the Cold War with Russia, and it was more recent than 9/11 is to modern kids. I wasn't old enough to remember anything about the cold war, i only remember it from what i was taught in school about it.

It absolutely NEEDS to be taught, it is ABSOLUTELY relevant to modern politics.

[Ninastar]

I don't think needs to be included in the syllabus but children should definitely be taught it if they ask.

I genuinely had a teacher who told us about how it wasn't terrorists who did it and that it was all planned and told us to watch this certain video about it. It pissed me off so much. They shouldn't be allowed to say things like that.

[lostalex]

I don't think needs to be included in the syllabus but children should definitely be taught it if they ask.

I genuinely had a teacher who told us about how it wasn't terrorists who did it and that it was all planned and told us to watch this certain video about it. It pissed me off so much. They shouldn't be allowed to say things like that.

Did she also teach you that America never landed on the moon, it's just American propaganda?

WTF is wrong with teachers?

[Kizzy]

Pretty sure it's too recent to be included on any history syllabus anyway. I doubt kids today don't know about 9/11.

Just had a nosy around on Bitesize (GCSE) and 7/7 is there but no mention of 9/11 anywhere :/

[Ninastar]

Did she also teach you that America never landed on the moon, it's just American propaganda?

WTF is wrong with teachers?

It was a he and probably... He was one to also say how awful Americans were. People thought he was a 'legend' but I got really annoyed by him.

[Cal.]

We learned about it in PHSE last year - but were never taught it in History. In History it's basically World War 1 & 2, The Tudors, Ancient American Indians, Industrial Revolution and The Holocaust.

[Toy Soldier]

Given that the chain of events of 9/11 are all over the ****ing place, if I was a history teacher I would be quite uncomfortable with teaching any version as "fact".

Then again, history is full of secrets and most of what's in the textbooks - from the Romans to the Royals to the Colonies - is probably little more than a jumble of half-truths and exaggerations. So I guess it doesn't really matter if it's bull****.

[Pete.]

Definitely a politics/RE subject - not history yet tho

[Mystic Mock]

I definitely think it should be studied now, if more modern disasters can be studied as a History lesson then why can't 9/11 be studied?

[waterhog]

does not matter how many times i see it - my heart always goes over. so shocking.

[JoshBB]

we are taught about 9/11 in assemblies, but not in history. we learn about ww2 and nazis in history.

[MTVN]

It could conceivably be taught in history I suppose but I think more time would need to lapse for us to be able to fully appreciate its historical significance else we could have a distorted view which is too influenced by how recent it is. It'd be better taught in some current affairs sort of subject which more could be done about in schools. PSHE, RE and 'general studies' all kind of cover stuff like this but I'm not sure how well

[Crimson Dynamo]

teach them what?

men are easily deluded by the need to feel important and are easily led to believe in gods

lets teach children that religion is backward and wrong, that we must ask why, what is your evidence, where is your proof and lets move forward

question everything

[Niamh.]

we were only taught Irish history and European history in secondary school

[Crimson Dynamo]

i remember trying to find a website to see the 9/11 info when someone got a distressing a call and all the main ones were down and eventually we got the guardian and it said a cessna lite aircraft hit one tower!

we then went into the conference room ( i was with a USA company in London) and watched CNN, we had clients in the towers and people watching friends, it was awful.

[Crimson Dynamo]

:laugh: I agree with: "Question everything" but this is about whether the 911 terror attack should be taught in schools or not, so where did the 'religion' issue come from?

they shouted alah akbar or whatever the silly phrase is when they hit each tower

[Nedusa]

I think most teachers prefer to teach subjects less contentious than "9/11"

[Crimson Dynamo]

alan snackbar is a prohphet

:fist:

[Z]

Pretty sure it's too recent to be included on any history syllabus anyway. I doubt kids today don't know about 9/11.

When I taught English 3 years ago; some of the 17 year olds I was teaching were too young to remember anything about it and some of them didn't really get the significance of it which I found shocking because I was only three years older than them.