to think it's bit much DS1's new USA teacher showed them 9/11 footage

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They are 7 by the way in year 3, UK school.

DS is freaked out by seeing the planes hit the towers, he has never seen it. She cried apparently and asked what the kids thought happened to the people hit by bits of builing in the stree below AND that they were bad people in the planes trying to bring down the USA.

What the fuck?

I need to clarify the details with other Mums/kids but DS is defo shocked.

Is it on the cirriculum?!?!?

Am quite cross about this. AIBU?

what mathanxiety says and maybe a bit american-centric?
When we lived there some of my american friends were stunned we didn't pledge allegience to their flag every morning because we were 'allies' and they won both world wars.
I reminded them we are a soveriegn nation and get taught our history and not theirs!
(it was only a few though)

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that if it were my 7 year old I wouldn'tind them seeing it. 9/11 was tragic for all regardless if you were directly affected or not. It changed history and changed aviation completely. It is a part of our history .

I do think the teacher should have kept her emotions in check a little though, I think I would have been embarressed had I have seen the teacher get emotional.

The teacher should have explained it all properly though but then that's different viewpoints and opinions. I don't think they should have been reffered to as bad men that's a lilttle vague. That said your then going into the whole Muslim extremism and politics which I think children at that age couldntvpossibly understand. So for that reason I wouldn't have shown it , but as for the footage I don't think the teacher was being unreasonable but like o said because it can't be exlaoned properly then the teacher should have waited.

i think parental permission should have been sought first.i recently had to sign a permission slip for my 14 year old to see ' The pianist' in a history lesson.

troll?

The Pianist is more intense and explicit, imho, than much of the 9/11 footage!!

Modern kids see so much violence and things being blown up on movies, telly, etc. I don't believe that many of them would take it in that deeply. Maybe that's an argument against them seeing the real footage on desensitization grounds... BUT the desensitizing damage was done by all the action movies they've seen already (Spiderman, Incredibles,etc.) not the 9/11 footage per se.

Children should be able to tell the difference between movies and real life, and if they can't that is a significant problem. I certainly regard the Incredibles and footage of 9/11 as being in entirely different worlds. Parents should be careful about how much action their younger children watch (especially the 12A type stuff) and not have to worry about school adding to that.

Anyway, OP what did you do?

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OK she sounds totally barking. I agree with SGB, she sounds unfit to be a teacher tbh.

Just shows you, CRB checks aren't everything...

In years to come this will be part of history school curriculum. I think children do need to be shown the images of that fateful day and what happened in the aftermath.

My 4yr old has seen footage in adverts of the planes hitting and he is mesmorized by it asking questions, what happened?, why, etc etc.

Also i do not find 9/11 any different to our children being taught about WW1 & 2. Its a part of life and what has happened.

YANBU at all!! How dreadful for your DS.

Is he okay now?

My DS would have been very disturbed by this. I hope there haven`t been any nightmares because of it.

I would be very interested to hear what the headteacher has to say about it.

OMG im so sorry, this popped up and i thought it was a new thread, but its not its a year old!

It's not just the showing of the footage but the 'bad people' and 'what do you think happened to the people in the street' stuff that is a problem.

I would certainly complain.

fanjo this is an old thread dug up by a ghoul, ignore

oh shit, Is it really old.

sorry folks, didn't realised it had been bumped by someone.

Ghoul? Yeah thanks for that!

I don't believe this op.

Also I think it is pointless showing 9/11 footage to a seven year old as the only educational value in seeing it is if you can have a complex discussion re: politics before and after. This can only happen with secondary school kids.

Otherwise it's just voyeurism.

I really wish that the endless coverage of 9/11 at this time of year would stop.

I understand it was a very significant, tragic event with globa repercussions. However, I think at this stage, documentary memorials would be best saved for specific anniversaries and not trotted out to fill the TV schedules each year at this time.

I think the endless replaying of the footage is quite voyeuristic. At the moment of impact, people actually died. Real people.
I think the footage should be shown very sparingly and very rarely, personally.

I remember my RE teacher reading James Herbert's 'The Rats' to our class when I was 8.

Deeply inappropriate.