NORCROSS, Ga.-It was a day of infamy they don’t remember.
Sixth-graders in Jacob Cole’s social studies class relived the terror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks this week in a lesson intended to help them understand what the death of Osama bin Laden means.
The students at Ivy Preparatory Academy charter school near Atlanta covered their faces as they watched the images of jets flying into the World Trade Center. The voices of frightened newscasters and terrified onlookers brought them to tears. A photo of Osama bin Laden evoked gasps.
Cole designed the lesson to help the students understand why some Americans were celebrating in the streets for the violent death of a man on the other side of the world.
“I totally think he deserved to die,” student Colby DeWindt said. “He killed a lot of people, but I agree we shouldn’t celebrate someone’s death.”