Sandy Hook Elementary School students return to class in nearby Monroe, Conn.
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A Sandy Hook Elementry student flashes a sign as children leave on a school bus in Newtown, Conn. on Jan. 3, 2013. Survivors of the shooting attended classes in a building in the nearby town of Monroe. (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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A sign welcoming children from Sandy Hook Elementry school sits on the road in Monroe, Conn. on Jan. 3, 2013. Students were returning Thursday to classes at an alternative campus. (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Some of the remaining memorial items to Sandy Hook Elementry students and staff who died are viewed in Newtown, Connecticut on January 3, 2013. (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Sandy Hook Elementry students leave on a school bus in Newtown, Conn. on Jan. 3, 2013. Their alternative campus was described by police as 'the safest school in America.' (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Survivors were finally to start their new academic year in the nearby town of Monroe, where an unused middle school has been converted and renamed from its original Chalk Hill to Sandy Hook. (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Sandy Hook Elementry student looks out the window as children leave on a school bus in Newtown, Connecticut on January 3, 2013. (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Students at the elementary school where a gunman massacred 26 children and teachers last month were returning to classes at an alternative campus described by police as 'the safest school in America.' (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Roses with the faces of the Sandy Hook Elementry students and adults killed are seen on a pole in Newtown, Connecticut on January 3, 2013. (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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A flag outside the Sandy Hook Fire department in Newtown, Connecticut on January 3, 2013. Survivors were finally to start their new academic year Thursday in the nearby town of Monroe. (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Some of the remaining memorial items to Sandy Hook Elementry students and staff who died are viewed in Newtown, Connecticut on January 3, 2013. (Photo TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)