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8th grade teacher got pissed at us on 9/11 because he thought we were laughing at the fact that a plane had hit the WTC. We were laughing because one of the girls didn't know what the WTC was. We turned on the TVs to see the second one get hit.
6th grade we had napster while some of us were still bringing in cases of floppies to play games that'd run on the computers
4th grade for me, so barely old enough to understand the significance, but definitely old enough to remember airports without TSA, and being able to go all the way to the gate with whomever was flying.
At first they just told I think 7th and 8th grade and let us watch CNN. Told us not to talk about it with the younger kids.
That lasted until a bit before lunch when parents picking up kids sped up. It really ramped up once news hit about the one that crashed in PA as it was less than an hour from us.
That was kinda the wildcard at the time. We all knew that area and there's not a whole lot out there. Definitely was a worry that it was going to be a much wider attack in the moment.
9/11 was high school for me, Columbine mass shooting was around the same time. I went from end of cold war get under your desk drills in early grade school to a few years with no drills aside from tornado, to ending high school with active shooter drills.
I had a girl in my classroom watch the second plane hit the tower and said out loud to the room, "wow, what a coincidence." We were so innocent... and she was so dumb.