As a world history teacher I'm fully aware I will have to teach a lesson on 9/11 at some point. Honestly I've been dreading it ever since my kids asked why I wasn't doing that lesson on 9/11. I've thought about it and the only way I can bring myself to do that lesson is to break it up so that throughout the year I teach it to only one class a day and later on another class on another day. I have days written into my lesson plans that are "random" lesson days. Like today I taught a lesson on why history is important, it only takes half the class period and the other half I can talk about more interesting history stuff that wouldn't necessarily make it into any other lessons. So I decided to teach one of my classes with the 2nd portion about 9/11... Kind of test the waters, see how the kids would act, ect. It went ok, I got a little teary eyed as I had expected but that particular class is respectful and relatively well mannered. Skip to my 7th period class, my all out worst behaving class. One student in particular caused a fuss bc he heard I taught 4th period about 9/11 and he wants to watch videos of ppl jumping out of the world trade center... You can probably already guess why my 7th period wasn't the class I chose to test the waters with. So I try to calmly explain to him that I will not teach 9/11 to every class in a single day, for my own sake. He didn't listen to the 2nd part of my sentence and starts going off about how it's not fair that I teach all of my other classes about it and just leave them out. So I explain it again more clearly telling him that I only taught one class that subject today and that every class will eventually get to it just not on the same day bc it would be too much for me to teach that all day long. He still argues saying I should "just show the videos of the ppl jumping out of the building". Eventually the class ended... thankfully. I'm not an overly emotional person, I really don't like to show certain emotions infront of ppl but when it comes to 9/11 in particular there's no way around It for me. I don't boohoo or anything but I can't help but get caught up in the feelings of that day/those memories. I feel like I'm just too sensitive about it, like I should be able to just suck it up and teach it bc that's my job. Am I the only one that gets like this? I don't guess the subject comes up for other ppl near as much, but when/if it does come up is it an easy topic to discuss?