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conulyShockingly, I don't support this. The fact that no public school students remember 9/11, and vanishingly few were even born then is, in my opinion, an unalloyed good. Time passes. All things fade. Well, except for the war. That's still here, but dwelling on 9/11 isn't going to make it go away any faster.
And it's not like the students will really contemplate the meaning of the occasion. They'll be thinking about their math homework they haven't finished, the cute kid they want to ask out, whether or not they'll get in trouble for checking their phone during this moment of silence. So why not just let them do that without the rigamarole?
Meanwhile, those students who were born in 2001 and graduated last June are old enough to fight in the ongoing war. A moment of silence for that loss of lives would not go amiss, but somehow I don't think anybody thinks that's what they should be discussing and contemplating at the start of every school year.
And it's not like the students will really contemplate the meaning of the occasion. They'll be thinking about their math homework they haven't finished, the cute kid they want to ask out, whether or not they'll get in trouble for checking their phone during this moment of silence. So why not just let them do that without the rigamarole?
Meanwhile, those students who were born in 2001 and graduated last June are old enough to fight in the ongoing war. A moment of silence for that loss of lives would not go amiss, but somehow I don't think anybody thinks that's what they should be discussing and contemplating at the start of every school year.
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Date: 2019-09-11 06:50 pm (UTC)Indeed I did, and that’s why I made that statement.
1960s science fiction: “Imagine a future America, say early 21st century, that has found its way to G Orwell’s ‘War is Peace,’ sending ground troops into one proxy Vietnam after another, all around the world, and Americans are so used to it by now that they simply accept this endless, pointless drain on their wallets and their sons’ lives, and the huge Federal Government it supports… which treats them as criminals and polices them as by an army of occupation.
“Meanwhile, the only Americans the rest of the world sees are in uniform - and usually aiming a weapon at them. Burdened at home and hated abroad, over-governed and disarmed, socially fractured and politically powerless - Welcome to America, AD 2020.“
“I dunno, man, that’s kinda heavy, y’ know? Shouldn’t there be, like, Moon bases and stuff?”
“No! There’s a war on!”