The School At Ground Zero: "It was like a giant communal scream."

"People are dying, but everyone here is going to be okay." 

-Teacher at the school near ground zero.

An absolute much-watch.
A teacher from PS 150 Tribeca Learning Center near ground zero says it was "like a giant communal scream." These teachers, who were in charge of hundreds of children and scared parents, thought heroically as they tried to maintain order and calm in the midst of chaos of 9/11. The Dart Society Reports is a new online magazine, covering trauma, conflict and human rights.  This first issue features this documentary of journalist and parent Jacques Menasche.

"Jacques Menasche, who produced a documentary and text on the effects of 9/11 on his son’s first-grade class at a school near ground zero in New York City.
Children, Menasche writes, have largely been excluded from the event’s history: “They present a problem for a journalist, a messy gray area of memory and trauma. Today, when it remains difficult to fully understand the extraordinary violence of September 11, 2001 — even for those of us who were there — how much less can we understand its effects on others, especially when those others are children, five and six years old, first-graders, only on the liminal cusp of memory?”

View this documentary here at the Dart Society Reports