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| by Abigail Deutsch, |
Sep 27, 2001 |
“Teachers walked students across the Brooklyn Bridge, the 59th Street Bridge; others went up to the East Side, the West Side,” Teitel said. “Another teacher gave students his home phone number in case there were any problems.”
Teitel then proceeded north to Superintendent Tony Sawyer’s office, located in Martin Luther King, Jr. High School on 66th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The superintendent was waiting to hear from Teitel “so he could tell the Board what the status was of student safety in all the schools of that area,” Teitel said. “Much earlier, his deputy had told me to sit tight. He had no way of knowing what had ensued from that point. As soon as I got there I went right into his office.
“So I gave him the report; I said as far as I knew, Stuyvesant High School was evacuated, that no one had been hurt in any way—physically, of course—that everyone was now being walked by faculty members to other boroughs.”
And now that it’s over, how do the administrators feel? “I’m still very affected, still very troubled by what happened,” Blaufarb said. Teitel’s take was slightly different. “I think having the responsibility of 3,000 students, 200-plus adults, everything I’ve had to do in the last eight, nine days, I haven’t had time to sit down and think about what I’ve witnessed as an individual,” Teitel said. “I’ve just been too busy.”
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Principle puppet Ryan j. Wolfington | Dec 23rd, 2001
Looking to others to tell you what is right, is just another way of sanctioning your own doubt of what you already know. The principle knew what to do, but chose to believbe the lie which told her to do something else, and to back this up, she asked a supposed "Professional".
Life is about choice. Do what you know is right, or doubt what you know and believe the lie.
A person who does what they know is wrong always tries to blame others.
Many were told to "Sit tightl."
And while they knew it was lie, some chose to believe it. Because that is what they follow in their life, the lie. You can not do wrong in your life, following the lie as it offers you justifications for your wrong doing, then expect it to guide you in the right direction when life threatening situations occur.
What you follow in one part of your life is what youi listen to in all you do.
Either you are a person who does what they know is right, and does not follow the lie, or you follow the lie, doubting what is right, then asking others "What should I do" as if you don't already know.
Many when told to "Sit tight" during the tower emergency, did not doubt what they knew, and they left the building.
While others chose to doubt what they knew, and stayed.
Life is a choice.
Yours.
Ryan
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