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| Scared but Resilient, Stoneman Douglas Students Return to Class | Scared but Resilient, Stoneman Douglas Students Return to Class |
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| PARKLAND, Fla. — Some students dreaded this moment. Some felt ready and defiant. Others just wanted to reunite with friends and be together again. | PARKLAND, Fla. — Some students dreaded this moment. Some felt ready and defiant. Others just wanted to reunite with friends and be together again. |
| On Wednesday, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High were making an emotional return to the classroom, stepping inside the school where 17 people were killed and thousands of other lives in this South Florida suburb were irrevocably altered two weeks ago. | On Wednesday, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High were making an emotional return to the classroom, stepping inside the school where 17 people were killed and thousands of other lives in this South Florida suburb were irrevocably altered two weeks ago. |
| It was the first day of school since a former student armed with a semiautomatic rifle went on a shooting spree on a campus that is now guarded like a fortress. | |
| For many, the day offered a chance for the student body to show its strength and unity after two weeks of nightmares, funerals, flashbacks, hospital visits, candlelit vigils and grief counseling. Many planned to wear burgundy T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like Douglas Strong and #MSDStrong. | For many, the day offered a chance for the student body to show its strength and unity after two weeks of nightmares, funerals, flashbacks, hospital visits, candlelit vigils and grief counseling. Many planned to wear burgundy T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like Douglas Strong and #MSDStrong. |
| But the return was disquieting. It meant they were actually going to sit in the classrooms where they had hidden during the shooting, and to linger in the courtyards where they had first heard the thunderclap of gunshots. They dreaded confronting so many empty seats, or seeing the art project that a slain friend would never finish. | But the return was disquieting. It meant they were actually going to sit in the classrooms where they had hidden during the shooting, and to linger in the courtyards where they had first heard the thunderclap of gunshots. They dreaded confronting so many empty seats, or seeing the art project that a slain friend would never finish. |
| “I’m scared to go back,” Madison Lackey, 14, said. | “I’m scared to go back,” Madison Lackey, 14, said. |
| Even to get onto the vast school campus again, students and their parents had to thread their way past heavily armed police officers and television cameras and pass through an exterior fence that is now decorated with banners of grief and condolence and garlanded with fading memorial flowers. | Even to get onto the vast school campus again, students and their parents had to thread their way past heavily armed police officers and television cameras and pass through an exterior fence that is now decorated with banners of grief and condolence and garlanded with fading memorial flowers. |
| As they approached the school, the students walked past a phalanx of police officers from nearby cities and teachers from their old middle and elementary schools who waved signs of support. | As they approached the school, the students walked past a phalanx of police officers from nearby cities and teachers from their old middle and elementary schools who waved signs of support. |
| “Welcome back, welcome back,” one sheriff’s deputy said. | “Welcome back, welcome back,” one sheriff’s deputy said. |
| The school has said it would have extra counselors to meet with students, and it will be days — if not weeks — before students return to their regular lessons. The school’s principal, Ty Thompson, said on Twitter that the focus of the week would be on healing, and classes are being dismissed at 11:40 for the rest of the week in an effort to let the students acclimate to being back. | The school has said it would have extra counselors to meet with students, and it will be days — if not weeks — before students return to their regular lessons. The school’s principal, Ty Thompson, said on Twitter that the focus of the week would be on healing, and classes are being dismissed at 11:40 for the rest of the week in an effort to let the students acclimate to being back. |
| “There is no need for backpacks,” he wrote. “Come ready to start the healing process and #RECLAIM THE NEST” | “There is no need for backpacks,” he wrote. “Come ready to start the healing process and #RECLAIM THE NEST” |
| The night before they headed back, many of the young survivors took to Twitter and Facebook and other social media channels where they have been fomenting a new movement for tougher gun laws. They shared poems, words of inspiration and even said they were revved up about waking early. | The night before they headed back, many of the young survivors took to Twitter and Facebook and other social media channels where they have been fomenting a new movement for tougher gun laws. They shared poems, words of inspiration and even said they were revved up about waking early. |
| “I’ve never anticipated a 6 a.m. alarm more in my entire life,” wrote Cameron Kasky, 17. | “I’ve never anticipated a 6 a.m. alarm more in my entire life,” wrote Cameron Kasky, 17. |