Boston Globe: “When students don’t know 9/11”
— 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.”
— “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.”
— “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.'”

— Washington Post: “9/11 as a Lesson, Not a Memory”
— students complain about handouts and homework in learning about 9/11
— “JaLeah Hedrick, 18, had never learned about Sept. 11 in school until she entered Hutchison’s class this week, but consequences of that day surrounded her as she began her pursuit of extra credit.”

— Schools take up history of terrorism

See also:
— Daily Telegraph: “Charlie Sheen claims US government was behind 9/11 “