• Elementary school students forced to draw 9/11 attacks on world trade center, mother claims
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[quote] Ivie Gremillion says her daughter came home and told her, “We had to try the boom cloud and the planes hitting and we had to draw people jumping out of the windows.” A Texas school district is investigating a mother’s shocking claim this week that her daughter’s teacher forced elementary school students to draw traumatic pictures of the September 11 attacks. El Paso mom Ivie Gremillion told KFOX-TV that her 4th grade daughter came home from Hughey Elementary School on Monday and told her, “We had to try the boom cloud and the planes hitting and we had to draw people jumping out of the windows.” Gremillion’s daughter said the teacher specifically had the class draw the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in graphic detail. The children’s drawings, obtained by KFOX-TV, are disturbing crayon renditions of the attacks, showing the Twin Towers in flames and covered in smoke clouds. El Paso mom Ivie Gremillion says her fourth-grader was made to draw pictures of the WTC with planes flying into it at Hughey Elementary School. Renee Desantos, a spokesperson for the El Paso Independent School District, stated that, "EPISD is very concerned about the images that were drawn in response to a lesson on the events of September 11." Stick figures are drawn falling from the burning buildings with speech bubbles over their heads that read "help" and "I love you," while next to one figure a child wrote a downward arrow and the words "one way ticket to heaven." "That's something that kids should get in trouble for drawing," Gremillion told KFOX. "That's people being murdered, people committing suicide." Gremillion, whose husband is in the military and is set to go to Afghanistan in the next few months, says her daughter is now convinced he’s going to die because the teacher told the class that “the Afghans did this because they hate all of us and they want to kill all of us.” She said another little boy in the class was scared and confused by the teacher’s words. "He was under the impression that this happens every 9/11, and he was scared to leave his house and go to school yesterday,” she told the TV station. Ivie Gremillion thinks that an investigation by the school district is not enough and says, "I would like for a counselor to go in there and re-explain all this to that class." Renee Desantos, a spokesperson for the El Paso Independent School District, told the Daily News they are still investigating what events led to the drawings being made in the class, and are interviewing the teacher. “We’re definitely taking it very seriously,” she said. "EPISD is very concerned about the images that were drawn in response to a lesson on the events of September 11," the school district also said in a statement to the News. Ivie Gremillion says that another little boy in the class is now under the impression that this happened every Sept. 11 — and is afraid to leave his house on that day. "District and campus administrators are investigating the specific assignment and are interviewing the personnel involved. We regret the insensitivity that this action may have caused and wish to assure our community that we will act swiftly in this matter and will take any and all appropriate action. We extend our sincere apologies." Gremillion thinks steps need to be taken to undo the effects the class had on her child, and thinks that while the school should teach 9/11 as a historical event, they should steer clear of the graphic details while kids are small. "I would like for a counselor to go in there and re-explain all this to that class," she said.[/quote] [url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/elementary-school-students-forced-draw-9-11-attacks-world-trade-center-showing-planes-flying-twin-towers-mother-claims-article-1.1158918]Source[/url] Why?
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That's harsh to do on children.
That's the worst execution of educating kids on 9/11.
"No! Do it again! You're not capturing the horror enough!"
"Nice Timmy, the extra blood everywhere is beautiful, you get a gold star!"
I couldn't find the actual reason they had to draw it. What was the purpose.
[QUOTE=leontodd;37655405]I couldn't find the actual reason they had to draw it. What was the purpose.[/QUOTE] Probably because some people don't want their youth to ever forget about an event they were either to young, or not born to comprehend. Now class take out your coloring pencils and let's draw the Hindenburg disaster!
[QUOTE=leontodd;37655405]I couldn't find the actual reason they had to draw it. What was the purpose.[/QUOTE] Same reason why one of the math teachers at my school spent the entire period on Tuesday showing 9/11 videos.
Back in my day, we watched the attacks on TV in class...
[QUOTE=] "That's people being murdered,[b] people committing suicide.[/b]"[/QUOTE] Because they weren't going to die a far more agonizing death minutes later.
This is such a shame. What an idiotic teacher to do something like that, and make kids draw that stuff. They should be fired, spreading more propaganda and fear... and to kids that weren't even alive when this happened. On another note (incoming flame) [sp]I wish Americans would please start to shut up about the 9/11 attacks and everything related to them, all it does is cause grief and bring up bad memories and scare people. America NUKED Japan TWICE and pretty much devastated 60% of their entire country, people still have mutation in their genes from it today, but you don't here them talking about it and spreading it absolutely everywhere they go every single anniversary do you? Pretty sure blowing up two buildings, with a few thousand casualties isn't much compared to that.[/sp]
there's showing a short 5 minute clip in history/social studies class with maybe 5 minutes of discussion on 9/11, but forcing them to draw the disaster itself? that's fucking dumb Pic of one of the drawings [img]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1158916.1347567090!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/lesson14n-2-web.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Meladath;37655506]Pretty sure blowing up two buildings, with a few thousand casualties isn't much[/QUOTE] What the fuck, man
A stupid teacher with a stupid exercise that shouldn't have even made the news. C'mon "draw 9/11"
I had to draw 9/11 in year 6 primary school. Nobody really cared to be honest.
"NEVER FORGET 2012 WOO HOO" Facebook comments. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;37655587]there's showing a short 5 minute clip in history/social studies class with maybe 5 minutes of discussion on 9/11, but forcing them to draw the disaster itself? that's fucking dumb Pic of one of the drawings [img]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1158916.1347567090!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/lesson14n-2-web.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] The buildings weren't even fucking yellow, give that snot nosed brat an F.
[QUOTE=IcyTruth;37655596]What the fuck, man[/QUOTE] You missed off the "compared to that" part referring to the nukes. Yeah, pretty sure 150k-250k deaths (excluding injuries and mutation caused by the nukes) is a few more than 3k deaths and 6k+ injured. Also nice way of taking my words out of context.
Am I the only one who wants to see what the reaction would be if they were drawing something related to the Holocaust(As an example) instead of 9/11?
[QUOTE=Meladath;37655621] Also nice way of taking my words out of context.[/QUOTE] how is it out of context you were basically saying that we shouldn't mourn for the death of 3,000 innocent people
You guys really need to let 9/11 go, sure keep doing rememberance services and all that, but the way the entire country switches into 9/11 mode every september really needs to stop.
[QUOTE=Meladath;37655621]You missed off the "compared to that" part referring to the nukes. Yeah, pretty sure 150k-250k deaths (excluding injuries and mutation caused by the nukes) is a few more than 3k deaths and 6k+ injured. Also nice way of taking my words out of context.[/QUOTE] You should probably just stop talking before you just dig yourself a deeper hole. Not trying to be mean or anything but you're just making yourself sound dumb.
[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;37655682]how is it out of context you were basically saying that we shouldn't mourn for the death of 3,000 innocent people[/QUOTE] No I really was not at all. I was saying I wish the entire country would stop going into "anti-terrorism super patiotic month" every September. Yes, while the 9/11 attacks were a bad thing, yes you should remember them, yes you should have an hour silence or whatever you do. But when you think about it on the scale of human and war crimes, to say its now 11 years after the incident, it really is not that big at all.
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[QUOTE=Meladath;37655709]No I really was not at all. I was saying I wish the entire country would stop going into "anti-terrorism super patiotic month" every September. Yes, while the 9/11 attacks were a bad thing, yes you should remember them, yes you should have an hour silence or whatever you do. But when you think about it on the scale of human and war crimes, to say its now 11 years after the incident, it really is not that big at all.[/QUOTE] you sure did a good job of getting that message across in an appropriate manner [QUOTE=RainbowStalin;37655687]You guys really need to let 9/11 go, sure keep doing rememberance services and all that, but the way the entire country switches into 9/11 mode every september really needs to stop.[/QUOTE] ^ this is how you do it
[QUOTE=Meladath;37655506]This is such a shame. What an idiotic teacher to do something like that, and make kids draw that stuff. They should be fired, spreading more propaganda and fear... and to kids that weren't even alive when this happened. On another note (incoming flame) [sp]I wish Americans would please start to shut up about the 9/11 attacks and everything related to them, all it does is cause grief and bring up bad memories and scare people. America NUKED Japan TWICE and pretty much devastated 60% of their entire country, people still have mutation in their genes from it today, but you don't here them talking about it and spreading it absolutely everywhere they go every single anniversary do you? Pretty sure blowing up two buildings, with a few thousand casualties isn't much compared to that.[/sp][/QUOTE] youre comparing something that happened 11 years ago to something that happened 67 years ago. and theres a difference between ending a war and getting attacked by terrorists.
This reminds me of when my sister's teacher had the whole class do projects based around the OJ Simpson trial.
[QUOTE=Meladath;37655709]No I really was not at all. I was saying I wish the entire country would stop going into "anti-terrorism super patiotic month" every September. Yes, while the 9/11 attacks were a bad thing, yes you should remember them, yes you should have an hour silence or whatever you do. But when you think about it on the scale of human and war crimes, to say its now 11 years after the incident, it really is not that big at all.[/QUOTE] all of us realise this, it's not a new insight in a vacuum, 9/11 was not a big deal. however you simply cannot look at it out of context like that; it's inextricably bound in the politics that happened afterwards, which defined the USA and international politics generally for the next decade. that is why 9/11 is canonized like this - everything would have been different had it not happened. I'm not saying agree with the practice itself, but you need to have a better understanding of it than "lol only 3k people died, get over it"
[QUOTE=MIPS;37655757]This reminds me of when my sister's teacher had the whole class do projects based around the OJ Simpson trial.[/QUOTE] That couldn't have ended well.
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