Today, AFL released a 9/11 Parent Toolkit, a comprehensive guide
designed to help parents teach their children what happened on
September 11, 2001.


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AMERICA FIRST LEGAL RELEASES 9/11 PARENT TOOLKIT TO HELP FAMILIES
TEACH THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT THE TERROR ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released a 9/11
Parent Toolkit
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a comprehensive guide designed to help parents teach their children
what happened on September 11, 2001, who carried out the attacks, and
how failures in America’s immigration system helped the hijackers
enter and remain in the United States. The toolkit is available
through AFL’s Parent and Student Action Center
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Friday, September 11, 2026, marks the 25th commemoration of the
deadliest terrorist attack on American Soil. Nearly 3,000 people were
murdered by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists–all of whom were foreign
nationals–who hijacked four large commercial airplanes, determined
to kill as many as possible. Two planes struck the World Trade Center.
One struck the Pentagon. The fourth, United Flight 93–intended for
either the White House or the U.S. Capitol–was taken down by brave
passengers who sacrificed their lives by crashing the plane in a rural
field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

The attacks were the product of years of planning by a radical Islamic
terrorist organization, and of failures in the immigration system that
let the hijackers in. The 9/11 Commission Report
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and its Terrorist Travel staff report
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document how the 19 men used visas, ports of entry, and flight schools
inside the United States:

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All but one entered on tourist or business visas. The remaining
hijacker, Hani Hanjour, entered on an F-1 student visa and never
attended the English program he used to obtain it.

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The visa system approved 22 of 23 applications and interviewed only
two of the men.

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Border inspectors admitted them 33 times through nine airports, across
43 immigration and customs checkpoints.

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Three presented passports with al-Qaeda extremist indicators; two
presented fraudulently altered passports; two made materially false
statements on their visa applications.

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By September 11, Satam al Suqami and Nawaf al-Hazmi had overstayed.
The United States had no entry-exit system that would have shown they
were still here.

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Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi entered as tourists, enrolled in
U.S. flight schools, and applied to change status to vocational
students. INS took more than ten months to decide and mailed the
approval notices to Huffman Aviation in March 2002—six months after
the attacks.

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The Commission concluded that document and travel-pattern analysis
could have intercepted as many as 4 to 15 of the 19. Where that
screening was applied, it worked: Mohamed al-Kahtani was refused entry
at Orlando, and Zacarias Moussaoui was held on immigration charges.

Parents cannot teach that lesson if schools skip who the hijackers
were, how they entered the country, and why those gaps still matter.
President Donald J. Trump and his Administration have put those
lessons back at the center of national policy. On September 9, 2026,
the President proclaimed Patriot Day and called for the vow to Never
Forget to be “taught in every classroom.” He has directed agencies
to vet and screen foreign nationals to the maximum degree possible so
terrorists cannot exploit the same visa and border weaknesses the
hijackers used.

Twenty-five years later, most Americans under 30 have no living memory
of that morning. Yet many classrooms omit the facts or recast 9/11 as
a story about American prejudice. A 2025 House resolution
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found that only 14 states then required students to be educated about
the attacks. The National Education Association’s 2025 Handbook
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a compilation of the nation’s largest teachers union policy and
resolutions, contains no reference to 9/11.

In other districts, 9/11 is used as a vehicle for anti-American
activism:

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In Fairfax County, Virginia
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a new 9/11 teaching guide treats the attacks chiefly as a lesson in
“safe spaces for Muslim and Middle Eastern students.” It tells
teachers not to “associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims”
and not to “center the extremists or the acts of the extremists.”
It does not name Osama bin Laden or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Only about
15 percent of the guide sets out specific instruction about what
happened on September 11.

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In California, a required ethnic-studies course in the North Monterey
County Unified School District
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treats September 11 mainly as an Islamophobia story. One slide tells
students that “9/11 made the already existing prejudices against
Arab and Muslim Americans more obvious and shameless.” The same unit
points students to Osama bin Laden’s Letter to America as evidence
that the United States was targeting “Muslim communities.”

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In New Jersey, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
distributes a Muslim Studies Curriculum
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to school districts that describes the perpetrators as “a group
self-identifying as al-Qaeda hailing from the mountains of
Afghanistan,” and tells students the hijackers “launched the
attacks in response to America’s support of Israel, their
involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and the vast presence of the US
military in the Middle East.”

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In New York, teachers have sat through training
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framed around teaching “9/11 with Muslim students in their
classrooms” amid a “growing tide of Islamophobia.” Between 2012
and 2026, the New York City Department of Education spent more than $1
million on contracts with the group that offered that training.

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In New Mexico
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a high-school social studies instructional scope tells teachers to run
9/11 through “critical consciousness,” with an emphasis on how the
attacks affected “diverse groups in America.”

AFL’s 9/11 Parent Toolkit gives families the record that those
classrooms leave out. It provides:

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A factual account of the attacks grounded in the public record,
including the 9/11 Commission Report
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Age-appropriate lessons and videos that families can preview and watch
together.

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A template letter parents can send to teachers and administrators
requesting all 9/11 instructional materials.

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A template letter parents can send to state and local education
officials demanding a factual 9/11 curriculum.

Parents hold the fundamental, Constitutionally protected right to
direct the upbringing and education of their children. AFL calls on
parents to teach their children the truth about September 11, to find
out what their schools are teaching, and to demand accurate
instruction.

“A moment of silence is not an education,” said Gene Hamilton,
President of America First Legal. “President Trump is right. The vow
to Never Forget must be taught in every classroom, and the
Administration is finally treating visa and border security as
national security. Parents must take charge of their children’s
education, learn what their schools are teaching about September 11,
and make sure the next generation knows the facts, including how the
attackers used our immigration system against us.”

“Parents have an obligation to proactively educate their children
about our country’s history, including what happened on September
11, 2001, and we call upon America’s parents to do so,” said Julie
Alexa Strauss, General Counsel of America First Legal. “Twenty-five
years after 9/11, we are experiencing a generational amnesia in our
national memory. Our children do not know what happened that morning.
They have no idea that acts of terror — unimagined in our
country’s consciousness — hit American soil, perpetrated by
evildoers driven by a hatred of the United States that continues to
this day.” “We cannot allow a defining chapter of American history
to be forgotten, censored, or rewritten by an ideological agenda that
seeks to dismantle America’s Founding Principles. Our children not
only deserve, but must know who attacked America and why. The
extraordinary courage of the Americans who fought back and gave their
lives in the wake of this radical Islamic attack on our soil must not
be forgotten.”

American history is fundamental to our liberty, and neither is
inherited automatically. Both must be taught, defended, and preserved.

Read the 9/11 Parent Toolkit here
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Find more of AFL’s resources for parents here
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