Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students are returning to school today for a half-day of classes, two weeks after a former student shot up the school and killed 17.
CNN reported that many students said they had no fear of going back because it would be “the safest place in Florida.” However, other students said they still felt like they were entering a crime scene, as law enforcement officials lined the streets surrounding the school.
“How do you return to normalcy after that?”: About 3,000 Parkland students are going back to school today, two weeks after the shooting massacre that killed 17 people https://t.co/JJk9kYtVz1 https://t.co/GHhh7pVIOT
— CNN (@CNN) February 28, 2018
Many students were wearing shirts with the names of all 17 victims of the shooting, and others dyed their hair blonde in honor of Joaquin Oliver, one of the students who had just become a naturalized U.S. citizen the month before he was killed.
The school decided that students and teachers will start their day in the same room they were in during the time of the shooting.
“This is the best place for everyone to be with their colleagues, their peers, their friends, so that they can work together as we go through this difficult process of trying to go from grief to some better states.” Broward Superintendent Robert Runice told the “Today” show Wednesday morning as students filed into the school.
“This is the best place for everyone to be with their colleagues, their peers, their friends.” – Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie on students returning to school after shooting pic.twitter.com/Q3Krt5YZJZ
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) February 28, 2018
