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A Sandy Hook Elementary student flashes a peace sign as children leave on a school bus in Newtown.
Give peace a chance.
A bus-riding Sandy Hook Elementary School tyke didn’t need to utter a word to say what’s on the mind of everyone between Newtown and Monroe.
Traumatized Sandy Hook kids came back in class today, for the first time since last month’s massacre that took the lives of 20 little kids and six educators.
About 400 kids from Newtown took over classrooms in nearby Monroe, at the site of what was once Chalk Hill Middle School, as their original school remains closed off as a crime scene.
The campus, seven miles away, has been decorated in “Sandy Hook Elementary School” signage, as students reunited with their teachers today -- many for the first time since that horrific Dec. 14 morning.
Newtown schools superintendent Janet Robinson teachers and staff are doing their best to make this a “normal day” for the children.
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A sign welcoming children from Sandy Hook Elementary school sits on the road in Monroe, Conn.
"We will go to our regular schedule," she said. "We will be doing a normal day."
There was a huge police presence on campus today, with cops checking IDs of parents as they approached school grounds to drop off kids.
"I think right now it has to be the safest school in America," Monroe police Lt. Keith White said yesterday.
School officials encouraged parents to visit campus and even stay in classrooms or an auditorium throughout the day.
Sandy Hook dad Vinny Alvarez took a moment to tell his little girl’s third-grade teacher, Courtney Martin, how eternally grateful he’ll be for the instructor’s quick thinking.
Martin didn’t hesitate locking her classroom door when bullets began to fly on Dec. 14, keeping her kids safe from rampaging gunman Adam Lanza.
"Everybody there thanked her in their own way," Alvarez said.
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