I know we're shit posting but if I could get real for a moment, this is how I learned about 9/11.
TV rolls in. Whole class goes "Yay". Teacher says, "Be quiet and watch". Whole class goes, "Oh no, he's grumpy". Whole class goes, "Wait... This is live TV". A whole world changes.
This is how I found out too. I remember 9th grade had just begun and it was the first class of the morning. Replays of the planes hitting the towers were playing over and over when we walked into the classroom. I was living in Alaska at the time so it felt like a world away. It was all very surreal.
I arrived in Hong Kong from the US on 9/11 (so 9/10 in the US). Turned on BBC in the evening... and didn't sleep for a few nights. Extremely weird way to start a year teaching in China.
On 09/11, my middle school hid the news from the students. I heard information about what was going on through gossip from other students. It was incredibly surreal because students were getting pulled out of class left and right by their parents. Walking by the teachers lounge, I peaked in to see the teachers staring at the TV and crying, but the principal was steadfast about not telling the students.
I honestly had no idea what was really going on and it wasn’t until I got home from school by the bus where I was surprised to see my Dad already home from work just glued to the TV. That’s when I finally learned about what really happened and saw the footage for the first time…at 4pm in the afternoon…
My elementary school didn't hide the Challenger shuttle disaster with us, but for some reason they wouldn't let us watch it happen live. Which, I guess, saved us from being as traumatized as we could have been. I remember the teacher coming into the lunch room and telling us and the big gasp. That mission was a big deal to kids because a school teacher would be on board, the first civilian astronaut.
I was also in middle school, one of the history teachers for my grade put it on the TV before the principal decided to try to not let the middle and elementary schoolers (it was a K-12 school) watch, so we all kind of knew what was going on, and in hindsight my teachers seem to have disagreed with the choice to keep us out of the loop. After lunch several of us were in the classroom before the teacher so we turned on her radio and listened to the news, that's how I first learned about the second plane.
You should have seen an acquaintance i knew whose class watched the old Romeo and Julliet movie with a topless scene. lets just say the rewind and pause functions were used.
Depends. My middle school had classrooms with accordion dividers which could open up and turn three classrooms into one big one and once, they brought in three of those TVs and had them synced up to show us Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
We watched the aftermath of the Columbine shooting on one of these. Our school was one of the middle schools that fed into Columbine, and you could pick if you wanted to go to Columbine or Chatfield. A lot of my classmates went to Columbine the year after it happened.
I was in high school when 9/11 happened (I chose Chatfield) but we had TVs in most classrooms there. So, sure enough, almost every TV in that school was turned to a news network on that day. Matt Dahl, the son of one of the pilots of Flight 93, went there as well.
I remember my teacher showing us All Summer in a Day on this bitch. I'm pretty sure that movie kickstarted my lifelong crippling depression. Other than that we mostly just watched Selena 62736 times.
You guys played films at school? Guess what we had.
One day my school played us a live feed of Al Jazeera Children's Channel (now known as JeemTV), I'm not even joking. I think they were airing an episode of a cartoon rendition of 1001 Nights at the time. It was pretty cool nonetheless.