Mrs. Wood-Bell

I was teaching a class at Swampscott Middle School when a fellow teacher came to my room and asked to speak to me in the hall. All she knew was that two planes had flown into the Twin Towers. She told me not to share the information with the students until we knew more. We got through the day and the students returned to our homerooms at the end of the day. I told my class what had happened and that they should go directly home and check in with their families, as they would undoubtedly be worried and want to talk about the events of the day with them. I was 5 months pregnant with my first child at the time and I just remember wondering what kind of a world I was bringing my daughter into . . .