How many mass shootings are there in the U.S.? Numbers can be deceiving. The shooting occurred before the afternoon kindergarten session. None of them witnessed the shootings, which were heard throughout the school, prompting students to hide where they could in their classrooms until the building was cleared by police. Only about 35 of them were in the building at the time, he said, attending the morning kindergarten session. There will be about 390 students enrolled this fall, and 70 of those, all now fourth-graders, were students at the old school when the shooting occurred, Erardi said. (Jessica Hill/Associated Press) 390 students enrolled Twenty first-graders and six educators were killed. White roses with the faces of victims are attached to a telephone pole near the school on the one-month anniversary of the shooting. The new school will serve students from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade. Sandy Hook students have been attending school in neighbouring Monroe, which renovated a previously closed elementary school for the Newtown children after the shooting. "Our goal was to create a place of community and learning, a place that would honour those we lost and allow those who were left behind the chance to move forward," First Selectman Pat Llodra said in a statement. The driveway and parking lots also have been changed, to minimize the emotional impact on students and educators seeing the property for the first time since the shooting. It has been built to invoke nature, with treehouses and courtyards. It has been landscaped to ensure anyone approaching the school is visible to those inside and can enter via one of three pedestrian bridges that cross the landscaping. Its ground floor is elevated, making it harder to see inside classrooms from the outside. SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING WINDOWS
The new school, funded by a state grant, has safety features such as impact-resistant windows and state-of-the-art video monitoring. Local officials hope that allowing everyone a look at the school this week will give students a "quiet, respectful, and appropriate opening as teachers and students return to the new school year," on Aug. A media tour will precede a public open house on Friday.
The new $50 million US, 86,000-square-foot school was built on the same property but not in the old footprint, and is scheduled to open next month. The old Sandy Hook Elementary School was torn down after the gunman's rampage in December 2012. gun control: Stiffer background checks, mental health treatment among new measures Obama reforms wouldn't have kept guns from Sandy Hook, San Bernardino shooters.When the public gets its first glimpse Friday of the school built to replace the one where 20 first-graders and six educators were massacred, they'll see a building designed to be attractive, environmentally friendly, conducive to learning, and above all, safe.
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