I think, like anything, this day means more to people who were alive/old enough to remember the event than to people who have only seen it on television/hear about it from older relatives. It sounds like OP was, at least, not old enough to really remember the day or the feelings that accompanied it. The teacher, however, will vividly remember what happened and could have even lost someone.

9/11 jokes are just plane wrong.

Thats not a fair assumption to make, not all teachers put the date up, and you can go days at a time without hearing someone say what the date is.

While I do agree this is an FML, how do you live in New York and not know it's the anniversary of 9/11?

Nothing wrong with that, your principle is a *******

Who the **** cares? It was 14 years ago. Sure it's a tragedy and all that blah blah blah, but there have been way worse acts throughout history and I don't see anybody making such a big deal about those anymore. People just need to get the **** over it, unless they enjoy killing their fellow Americans by sending them off to pointless wars and keeping the cycle of violence going.

Um...you're in New York and you don't know when the 9/11 anniversary is? How could you not know? It's been all over the news all over the country for days; surely you'd heard something about it. YDI

it was a question. I wasn't saying you didn't care. I did however say that if you were at school, I'm sure the school or at least teachers would do something for the memory. like maybe a moment of silence or maybe discussions of the same topic. the ''never forget'' was the saying that went and goes around after 9/11. don't know why she got down voted. maybe everyone on this site is too young to actually remember?