Massena Alt Ed school reflects on 9/11 Eleven years ago on
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks shocked our nation.
Although most adults can tell you where they were and what they
were doing that day, it is a different story for our students.
Many school-age children have little or no memory of that
day—this year’s seniors were just seven years old and our
kindergartners were not yet born. As the years pass, our
students have less understanding of what happened on 9/11 and
how that loss and destruction changed our country. Massena
Central Alternative Education School has taken steps to make
certain students understand 9/11 as something more than an event
in history. English teacher Abby St. Thomas and her students
created a bulletin board reflecting back on the events of 9/11.
“We had our students research the events of 9/11 and linked it
to our curriculum. Our students researched poems, quotes and
watched a video based on the happenings of that day. We talked
about what happened and why it happened,” said Mr