Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, when four commercial planes were hijacked, killing about 3,000 people in the aftermath.
Most of us remember where we were on that day.
However, current K-12 students do not— that’s because they weren’t born yet.
One Hillsborough County teacher is making sure this generation knows the impact this had on our nation.
Jennifer Skelton teaches 7th and 8th grade social studies, civics, and U.S. history at Lutz K-8.
“The further we get away from when it actually happened, we’re having more and more kids who were born [after] it happened,” said Skelton.
“Sometimes I’ll get a little emotional talking about it and they don’t get it. They don’t understand why I’m emotional about it. They don’t understand what that day was for everybody and how scary it was the unknown. So I don’t want to scare them, and I don’t want them to be afraid of things but I think they need to understand how we did feel that day,” she added.
Skelton has made it a priority to teach her students about the Sept. 11 attacks that sparked our nation’s longest war.