Future Of Sandy Hook Elementary School

Residents of Newtown, Connecticut still trying to cope with last month’s massacre at a local elementary school must now decide what to do with the school itself.

FOX News Radio’s Paul Stevens reports:

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The first of two meetings taking place in Newtown Sunday night. Residents talking about what to do with the Sandy Hook Elementary School building where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six staff members last month.

Some – saying the school should never re-open:

(Opposed to Standing School) “Knock that school down and make is sacred ground, a memorial to all the people that were destroyed that day.”

Others – insisting the school should stand:

(For Standing School)”Knocking down the school would be knocking down the memories of all the children that went there.”

Sandy hook students and staff already relocating to another school in a neighboring town.

Another town meeting coming up Friday.

Paul Stevens, FOX News Radio.

3 Comments

Michele

January 14, 2013 at 10:44 am

Make this school a memorial to the town the students that lost their lives to the parents who lost their children. Leave it just like it ls with the bullet holes. Clean up the Gore and put all the mail up on all the walls for everyone to see so we NEVER forget the horror these children experienced . We all need to know each child who perished in this American nightmare.
- Hazmat77
  
  January 14, 2013 at 12:00 pm
  
  leave the bullet holes? that is so foolish I don't know how to respond with any logic.
wondersinthedark

January 14, 2013 at 5:51 pm

Destroying the school would erase the memories of so many, while surrendering to the evil of December 14. By all means renovate the two rooms where the horror unfolded, but leave the school standing and fully operational. A memorial could indeed be built on the grounds.

-Sam Juliano