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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: 2019-09-12 12:24 pm (UTC)Shockingly, I don't support this.
I agree with you!
A moment of silence for Black children and teenagers shot by police for no good reasons AND for the victims of school shootings might be a good idea instead
although I would want to hear from the relevant experts about whether it would increase or decrease the risk of school shootings.