Parents and teachers from Sandy Hook Elementary School are getting ready to bring kids back to school for the first time in nearly three weeks.
On Thursday, kids from Sandy Hook Elementary will get back to their routines in the neighboring town of Monroe after a gunman opened fire in the elementary school killing 20 children and six adults.
For parents like David Connors, the idea of sending kids back to school is full of emotions.
“I’m not exactly sure how we are going to react… it’s gonna be hard,” said Connors.
Connors is the father of eight-year-old triplets who all escaped from Sandy Hook on the day of the shooting. In the wake of uncertainty, Connors knows that the kids are ready for everything to go back to normal.
“They wanna see their teachers. They wanna see their classes. They wanna get back into their routine,” said Connors.
In an effort to make the transition a little smoother for students going from Sandy Hook Elementary to their new school in Monroe... school officials have been able to set up the classrooms to look almost identical to the classrooms in sandy Hook. They even set up the students back packs and jackets to look exactly the way they looked on that Friday.
“That’s a really big thing for the kids that their class looks the same… sitting next to same people that they have friends… everything on the walls looks the same,” said Connors.