CBS8 Features LJCDS Educator on How 9/11 is Taught in Schools

By Jennifer Fogarty, communications content manager
Middle School U.S. History teacher explains why it's important to share personal stories from September 11, 2001.

The following is an excerpt from the CBS News 8 story, “20 years later: How is 9/11 taught in schools? In California, 9/11 is not required curriculum.”

With the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaching, schools across our country are talking to students this week about the events that took place that day.  

"I can tell you everything from that day as it all happened," said Tyler Hales.

Hales is a middle school history teacher at La Jolla Country Day School. He was a high school senior in Massachusetts during 9/11. He remembers the day vividly, and the impact it had on his family.

"My brother joined the Army because of 9/11," said Hales.

But, for his 8th-grade students, 9/11 doesn't carry the same meaning. In part, he says because they don't know much about it.

"They're not as connected to it as they were when I first started teaching 15 years ago here, and it's important they actually learn about the day.”

Hales is trying to change that.

Every year, leading up to 9/11, he spends several days teaching kids about the events of that day, specifically what they think they know, what they've learned, and the questions they still have.

Hales says it's important to create that dialogue, not only between himself and the class but among the students themselves.

He also has them take the discussion outside the classroom.

Their assignment this week is to interview someone in their life about their memories from 9/11.

Watch the report and read the full article here.

Also, read more about how LJCDS remembers 9/11 and honors an alumna who was lost on Flight 93.


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