The students and teachers who survived the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary last month returned to school this week for the first time since the shooting occurred on Dec. 14 according to the Associated Press.
Classes resumed as normal only at a different location since their original school is still being treated as a crime scene. Over 400 students will be attending classes at a refurbished school in Monroe, located near Newtown according to Associated Press.
Police officers have been guarding the new school according and are determined to make it "the safest school in America." A school district spokesman confirmed that police officers would be checking IDs of parents as they dropped off their kids to school.
Parents who want to remain close to their children as they return to school for the first time have been told they can accompany them to their classes and stay in the classrooms or the school's auditorium throughout the first day back. The school also "encouraged" parents to let their children take the bus to help them slowly return to their usual daily routine.
"We will go to our regular schedule," said Newtown Superintendent Janet Robinson to the Associated Press. "We will be doing a normal day."
Volunteers worked hard to prepare the school for daily use, even raising the bathroom floors so that smaller students could reach the toilets. The belongings that were left behind at the previous school after students and facility were forced to evacuate were taken to the new school to help them feel "more at home" according to the release.
The same desks and chairs that were used at Sandy Hook Elementary will be used in the classrooms, and the walls of the specific classrooms were painted the same to help the students feel more comfortable.
"I'm not worried about her going back," Vinny Alverz, a father of a Sandy Hook Elementary student said of his daughter Cynthia. "The fear kind of kicks back in a little bit, but we're very excited for her and we got to see many, many kids today. The atmosphere was very cheerful."
No new details have been released regarding why 20-year-old Adam Lanza targeted the school last month, and police investigators have predicted it could take months to determine the reasoning according to Reuters. Lanza killed his mother before taking her car to the elementary school where he shot 26 students and employees before taking his own life.
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