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A website to teach schoolchildren in Britain about the events of 9\/11 and “demolish conspiracy theories” surrounding the attacks has been launched by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n
“It is only if we and our children properly remember and understand 9\/11 that we can make sure that nothing like it ever happens again,” Johnson said on Monday at the unveiling in London of a new artwork to commemorate the attacks.<\/p>\n
He said the website would help to “provide a controlled demolition” of the conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that took place a decade ago on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Peter Rosengard, chairman of the “9\/11 London project”, said research in British schools last year revealed “the most incredible ignorance, confusion and misunderstanding” of the attacks.<\/p>\n
“Children have to see something to understand it wasn’t a videogame, it really happened, it could have been their mums, their dads” among the nearly 3000 dead, he said.<\/p>\n
Rosengard said a survey of teachers found that 90 per cent wanted to teach their pupils about 9\/11 but complained they lacked the resources.<\/p>\n
The website, aimed at children aged 11 to 16, includes downloadable lesson plans for teachers.<\/p>\n
Nat Ogborn, 26, a history teacher at a school in the deprived south London borough of Peckham, said: “A lot of the children … didn’t know much about the event, some had only heard a lot about the conspiracy theories, so it’s great to have another insight.”<\/p>\n
One of his pupils, Michael Kuku, 12, said he knew nothing about the attacks until recently.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know it happened, I found out about like a year ago.”<\/p>\n
The artwork unveiled in Battersea Park, south London, is fashioned from steel girders retrieved from the rubble of the Twin Towers and designed by New York artist Miya Ando.<\/p>\n
Photo: Boris Johnson (R) unveils a sculpture made from the remains of The World Trade Center. Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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