After Newtown, Back to School

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A girl sits on a Newtown bus leaving the new Sandy Hook Elementary School after the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The Sandy Hook students started today in a new school, formerly called Chalk Hill School in Monroe. It was renamed Sandy Hook Elementary and overhauled especially for the students from the Sandy Hook School shooting.

On Jan. 3, The children who attended Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut returned to class for the first time since the mass shooting took the lives of 20 first-graders and six teachers. And elementary school children across the country are returning from holiday vacations. 

WGBH's Anne Mostue spoke to a few people about the experience of moving forward.