How are teenagers now being taught in school about 9/11

08-09-2015 11:03AM #1

This is something I thought about now - we are now 14 years since the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center buildings in New York, so the majority of teenagers currently in school would have been too young to remember it happening, or weren't born yet.

I'm assuming that it is being taught in school, possibly history class (?), but I'd be curious to know exactly what is being said about it.

eviltwin · 08-09-2015 11:14AM

They aren't taught about it. It's not part of the curriculum.

paulbok · 08-09-2015 11:48AM

Am I tripping here at work but were there not a load of comments about posts being cut short on this a few moments ago?

e.g. all about the Se.. ???

whiskeyman · 08-09-2015 11:54AM

paulbok wrote: »

Am I tripping here at work but were there not a load of comments about posts being cut short on this a few moments ago?
e.g. all about the Se.. ???

They were clearly onto something and the lizard people deleted them all!

Timberrrrrrrr · 08-09-2015 11:55AM

Deleted User wrote: »

This is something I thought about now - we are now 14 years since the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center buildings in New York, so the majority of teenagers currently in school would have been too young to remember it happening, or weren't born yet.

I'm assuming that it is being taught in school, possibly history class (?), but I'd be curious to know exactly what is being said about it.

Why would Irish schools teach kids about 9/11? Do you think the famine or the troubles get mentioned in US schools?

Mr. CooL ICE · 08-09-2015 12:02PM

Can't remember being taught much about the Iran/Iraq war, Cold War or breakup of the USSR. Then again, I was half asleep for most classes

lertsnim · 08-09-2015 12:08PM

It was Irish history and European history up to the end of the 1940's when I was in school. Never did we do anything about the history of the USA.

Duckworth_Luas · 08-09-2015 12:19PM

I wonder if they are being taught that 9/11 happened on 11/9?

Pink Lemons · 08-09-2015 12:22PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Why would Irish schools teach kids about 9/11? Do you think the famine or the troubles get mentioned in US schools?

Irish kids get taught more world history than Irish, at least at leaving cert level anyway from my memory.

irish_goat · 08-09-2015 12:22PM

I finished school in 2007 and got taught up to the fall of the Soviet Union. Always wondered at what point an event becomes "history". I'm sure there will be modules available soon (if not already) on the War on Terror, which would cover 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq and now ISIS.

Akrasia · 08-09-2015 12:23PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

They were clearly onto something and the lizard people deleted them all!

The best comment I ever made was on that thread

F*ck you Lizard people!

Level 5 Vegan · 08-09-2015 12:24PM

Any metalwork teacher worth his salt will teach them jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.

asherbassad · 08-09-2015 12:32PM

Level 5 Vegan wrote: »

Any metalwork teacher worth his salt will teach them jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.

:pac:

Don't forget a = 9.8 ms^-2 as well, in physics class.

Harry Palmr · 08-09-2015 12:33PM

Reeling in the Years is modern history for Irish kids.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 08-09-2015 12:33PM

Level 5 Vegan wrote: »

Any metalwork teacher worth his salt will teach them jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.

Surely what happened was that the plane weakened the structure where it hit resulting in a huge amount of pressure on the lower part of the structure and eventually it gave way.

Timberrrrrrrr · 08-09-2015 12:35PM

Level 5 Vegan wrote: »

Any metalwork teacher worth his salt will teach them jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.

But intense heat will

08-09-2015 12:36PM

Are they not being taught about it? That would be very odd, considering that it was such a huge event in modern history, with impacts being felt globally and Irish people dying in the attacks.

Timberrrrrrrr · 08-09-2015 12:37PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Are they not being taught about it? That would be very odd, considering that it was such a huge event in modern history, with impacts being felt globally and Irish people dying in the attacks.

Ww1 and 2 are barely covered afaik

endacl · 08-09-2015 12:39PM

Level 5 Vegan wrote: »

Any metalwork teacher worth his salt will teach them jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.

I suppose. If that metalwork teacher had also trained as a structural engineer, and who understood how burning jet fuel reacts with steel at high temperatures. And if he was a dribbling idiot who got all his news from too-long, badly edited CT vids on YouTube.

08-09-2015 12:41PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Ww1 and 2 are barely covered afaik

Not sure about that. I remember being in school and our teacher pretty much drilling WW2 into us. Sure, maybe not WW1, from what I can remember.

irish_goat · 08-09-2015 12:43PM

We did very little on the actual events of WW2 but heaps on the build up.

Alf Veedersane · 08-09-2015 12:43PM

Are they teaching them about Italia '90?

They should.

kjl · 08-09-2015 12:43PM

Not to bring this up again, but what happened to building 7 it magically collapsed too? Plus you can see the thermite leaking from the buildings before they go down.

There has always been something odd about the whole incident. I suppose we'll never know until mythbusters does an 9/11 episode when they build an exact replica of one of the twin towers and flys a plane into it.

kjl · 08-09-2015 12:44PM

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Are they teaching them about Italia '90?

They should.

didn't we get just as far in 2002?

Son Of A Vidic · 08-09-2015 12:45PM

If they are not being taught about Russia's Beslan school massacre, where hundreds of children died. Then I'm not sure what relevance past events in New York would have for Irish school children.

Timberrrrrrrr · 08-09-2015 12:45PM

kjl wrote: »

Not to bring this up again, but what happened to building 7 it magically collapsed too? Plus you can see the thermite leaking from the buildings before they go down.

There has always been something odd about the whole incident. I suppose we'll never know until mythbusters does an 9/11 episode when they build an exact replica of one of the twin towers and flys a plane into it.

CT forum >>>>>>>

razorblunt · 08-09-2015 12:45PM

Not unless Sean Lemass, Emily Dickinson, glacial deposition and erosion had anything to do with it.

smash · 08-09-2015 12:47PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

CT forum >>>>>>>

Tonight on TV3 : Secret Explosions in the Towers - The Missing Evidence - 10:00pm

Timberrrrrrrr · 08-09-2015 12:51PM

smash wrote: »

Tonight on TV3 : Secret Explosions in the Towers - The Missing Evidence - 10:00pm

And it will be a rehash of tired old theories from the last 14 years, I'd any real "evidence" was forthcoming it wouldn't get its worldwide premier on bog 3

Alf Veedersane · 08-09-2015 12:53PM

kjl wrote: »

didn't we get just as far in 2002?

No. QF in '90, last 16 in '02.

And 2002 wasn't our first world cup.

08-09-2015 12:54PM

Not turning this into a conspiracy theory, but it's fair to say that the world may never know exactly what happened that day. There's a lot of unanswered questions, but there's no denying that lots of people died and had far reaching global impacts that did change the world.

How are teenagers now being taught in school about 9/11

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