Francine Foo watched the twin towers burn from her elementary school classroom in Brooklyn. And for four years now, she's had a direct view of the World Trade Center site from the classrooms at Stuyvesant High School.

So you might be surprised that Francine and her classmates generally aren't very worked-up over the news that Osama bin Laden was killed.

“It wasn't, like, big,” Foo said. “Hanging out in the hallways, nobody was like "Oh my god. Did you hear about this?"

Students at Stuyvesant High School say Monday's hallway chatter mostly revolved around normal things like weekend gossip and upcoming Regents exams – not politics or terrorism.

They say it was in classrooms where teachers turned the conversation to bin Laden's death.

“We talked about it in government and it was kind of convenient, because in English we were reading the Sunday New York Times, so he also happened to bring it up,” said Nada Elmansy, a student.

They say these conversations were academic, not personal or emotional.

Although students here spend everyday overlooking the site of the attacks, most say bin Laden doesn't loom large in their lives.

They were too young at the time to absorb the impact of his terror, and in recent years, haven't thought or heard much about him.

“A lot of the kids in the school realize that it's an important event, and a really historically important event, but it's not really an emotional event for most of the kids,” said Billy Barnes, a student.

Nadia Hossain says her strongest connection to Sept. 11 aren't her own memories, but stories she read in a book about how Stuyvesant students ten years ago experienced the attacks.

“I've never even visited the World Trade Center before,” Hossain said. “Like when I came here, four years ago. I mean it's there but nobody goes to visit it. It's just been there so long.”

So long that to many teenagers, it seems like a history lesson.