Meeting with Colleagues

Category: Story

By the time I arrived in B29 (B for basement) for our weekly meeting, I was almost 30 minutes late. I figured others had been delayed as well, however the science teacheer who lived on Eastside of Manhattan had come to school early.

When, Persheen, the math teacher finally arrived, 45 minutes late for the meeting, the science teacher, who had been working in B29 when the first plane hit the Trade Center, started with:

"Late again? I think we need to start this meeting by talking about basic respect for our meeting time...."

We tried to stop her, tried to say, "But something is going on today."

Soon the principal came by to say to the six teachers in B29: "I don't know how much you know, but it has been confirmed that the United States is under attack. There has been an explosion at the Pentagon, and a plane hit the World Trade Center. Nobody knows how many more planes have been hijacked or what else might happen.

He went on: "We've been asked to tell our students what we know, to answer their questions as well as we can. Staying is school is considered the safest thing to do right now, so we are going to have students meet in their regular classes."