some freshmen in high school were born after 9/11

[Carson Dyle]

Holy piss you are a moron.

Looks like you must be one of those people that need enemies to justify your very existence. That figures. There an awful lot of you in this country stinking the place up.

 

[Homerboy]

a) No
b) Yes
c) N/A

I completed HS at 15 & 9 months - possibly one grade skipping that I recall (1st)

Only way to commute to college for a year was using an out of state (Farm) DL.

So then you started school waayyyyy early.
Congrats.

Somehow this has turned into a brag thread.
The point I was making is that very VERY few freshmen were born after 9/11

7th graders? Most.
8th graders? A lot.
Freshmen? Very few.

Heck I bet there are some (even less though of Freshman) Juniors and Seniors that were after 9/11. Hardly noteworthy though until you can say the vast majority.

 

[cabri]

So then you started school waayyyyy early.
Congrats.

Somehow this has turned into a brag thread.
The point I was making is that very VERY few freshmen were born after 9/11

7th graders? Most.
8th graders? A lot.
Freshmen? Very few.

Heck I bet there are some (even less though of Freshman) Juniors and Seniors that were after 9/11. Hardly noteworthy though until you can say the vast majority.

Understand the VERY.:thumbsup:
I do remember educations early at home from my mother who was an elementary teacher prior to me showing up.

 

[cabri]

It's been more than 13 years. People need to let 9/11 go. That many cannot just points up the fact that we live in extraordinarily peaceful times. Yet many people must have (or create) boogeymen to justify their existence. They can't just work, play, love, procreate and die. They need strife and something to worry about or they go nuts.

Very seldom does more than one generation go by without some conflict engulfing them.

There are plenty of real bogey men out there that are not willing to allow others to be in "peace".

Without paying attention to them; you chance on becoming susceptible to them.

 

[mpo]

The typical cohort of students born after 9/11 won't be starting high school/freshman year until next year. My son was born a week after the event. He's currently in 7th grade. Some of his peers went to kindergarten as young 5s, so are now in 8th grade.

No doubt there are some outliers out there.

 

[mcurphy]

OK, so can we all agree that this thread was created one year too early? Save it, set a reminder, and bump it in one year's time, OP!

 

[Mai72]

Death awaits us all.

When that kid hit 50 most of us are going to be very old or dead.

 

[Ichinisan]

It's been more than 13 years. People need to let 9/11 go. That many cannot just points up the fact that we live in extraordinarily peaceful times. Yet many people must have (or create) boogeymen to justify their existence. They can't just work, play, love, procreate and die. They need strife and something to worry about or they go nuts.

You mean, go back to the ignorance we had before 9/11?

Let it happen again? Is that what you're saying? It sounds like that's what you're saying.

 

[Carson Dyle]

You mean, go back to the ignorance we had before 9/11?

Let it happen again? Is that what you're saying? It sounds like that's what you're saying.

It wasn't ignorance, it was incompetence.

What I'm saying is quit feeling sorry for yourselves. Christ, this country didn't spend nearly as long crying over World War II, in which 50 million people were killed. They learned from it, moved on and built a better country and a better world. That's not what I see now. Americans today love to wallow in self-pity, while being afraid of what lurks in every damned shadow.

 

[z1ggy]

There'd BARELY be any freshman born after 9/11.
9/11 was 13 years, 6 months, 1 day ago.
How many freshmen are that old?
My is slightly older than that and he is just wrapping up 7th grade.

You'd have to be:
A) VERY advanced (ie skip a grade or two
B) Be EXTREMELY young in your class
C) lying about your age

Yeah I was going to say, when I went into HS, I was 15. I turned 16 and got my drivers permit in my sophomore year. A kid born after 9/11 would have had to have gone into preschool by age 3, or skipped grades.

 

[CZroe]

It wasn't ignorance, it was incompetence.

What I'm saying is quit feeling sorry for yourselves. Christ, this country didn't spend nearly as long crying over World War II, in which 50 million people were killed. They learned from it, moved on and built a better country and a better world. That's not what I see now. Americans today love to wallow in self-pity, while being afraid of what lurks in every damned shadow.

You try to dismiss it as fear-mongering, but being concerned about it and making sure that others never forget so that they share your concern so that you can act collectively is the very definition of learning from it.