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Students Don't Know 9/11, Believe Conspiracy Theorists
href="http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/u-s-students-dont-know-911/">http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/u-s-students-dont-know-911/
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Boston Globe: "When students don't know 9/11"
href="http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2009/09/11/schools_grapple_with_how_to_teach_911/">http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2009/09/11/schools_grapple_with_how_to_teach_911/
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Boston Globe reports: "Educators rethink their lessons for children too young to
remember"
-- "Three years ago, Julie Fox commemorated 9/11 with her students
by asking them to write journal entries recounting where they were when the
planes hit and how they felt at that moment."
-- "But the Norwell High School
social studies teacher has had to retire that assignment."
-- "Too few
students remember the day, the succession of ever-worsening reports, the horror
of the World Trade Center towers cascading into dust, employees fleeing the
Pentagon, and investigators combing through the wreckage in a Pennsylvania
field."
-- "Fox said she is confronted with 11th- and 12th-grade students who
believe that the attacks were the work of a great conspiracy"
-- "Monica
Castro of Roxbury, a 14-year-old freshman at the South Boston Education Complex,
is among the ranks with little recall. She was 6 at the time of the attacks and
has learned about them since from teachers; however, yesterday she was not sure
who committed them."
-- "'I forgot - the Muslims or someone,' she
said."
-- "At C.T. Douglas School in Acton, fifth- and sixth-graders will
listen to a morning announcement noting that today is 9/11, and then teachers
will explain that sometimes bad things happen that are difficult to
understand."
-- "'We tell them... that there are very angry people in the
world and that we have to focus on the things that we can control,' said Chris
Whitbeck, the principal. “That their job is to be the best person they can
possibly be.'"
-- "Specifics of the attacks will not be discussed, though if
pupils ask questions, Whitbeck said, their questions will be answered."
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"Kevin Mount, a freshman from Dorchester at the South Boston Education Complex,
said he was certain that the attacks were not the result of a conspiracy."
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"He said they were all a coincidence that the government used as an excuse for
attacking the Taliban."
-- "Asked where he learned that theory, he said,
'From the street.'"
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