Sandy Hook students return to class for first day in new school

Shannon Stapleton / Reuters

Children from Sandy Hook Elementary School make their way to their new school in Monroe, Conn., on Jan. 3.

Jessica Hill / AP

A bus traveling from Newtown, Conn., to Monroe stops in front of 26 angels along the roadside on the first day of classes for Sandy Hook Elementary School students since the Dec. 14 shooting.

Jessica Hill / AP

The entrance of the new Sandy Hook Elementary School is guarded by a police road block on the first day of classes since the Dec. 14 attacks.

Jessica Hill / AP

A nation mourns after the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history left 20 children and six staff members dead at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Hundreds of the children who escaped the harrowing attack on their elementary school in Newtown, Conn., last month head back to classes on Thursday for the first time since a gunman killed 20 of their schoolmates and six staff members.

School officials are preparing for droves of anxious parents to join the fleet of buses carting children to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School established in the neighboring town of Monroe.

Chalk Hill school, a former middle school, was overhauled especially for the students from the Sandy Hook School shooting.

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We have mourned and still contine to mourn those so needlessly killed in Newtown, Ct. The children have returned to school and hopefully a normal routine. I think it's time to stop posting pictures and time to let the children live in peace. The more that is posted by the media, the more the children will focus on the past. They'll never forget, but with a little help they can move on.

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Reply#1 - Thu Jan 3, 2013 1:02 PM EST

They will never forget

    Reply#2 - Thu Jan 3, 2013 1:51 PM EST

    Thank God for kids....Be strong babies ......for all of us..... You are our future.

      Reply#3 - Thu Jan 3, 2013 4:25 PM EST

      to fasttime.....they will never forget.... I agree. But we must not forget either. Those little ones lost for nothing. And teachers and administrators who only went to work that day. We need to do what we can to protect the people of this nation. My daughter works in a school cafeteria and is afraid to return!!

        Reply#4 - Thu Jan 3, 2013 7:44 PM EST

        The outpouring of so much love and compassion will surely serve to help them remember that there are also good people in this world.

          Reply#5 - Fri Jan 4, 2013 4:02 AM EST
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