Another step in a long and difficult healing process will be taken next week as demolition begins on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut where 20 children and six educators lost their lives last December.
Fox News is reporting that special arrangements are being made for the demolition of the school to ensure that the families and victims involved will not be exploited in any way.
“It’s a very sensitive topic,” Newtown Selectman Will Rodgers said Monday. “We want it (the site) to be handled in a respectful way.”
Families of the victims and school staff are permitted to visit the site before the tear-down begins, but all public access is barred with full-time security guards in place to ensure that the site is not disturbed.
Contractors are even planning to erect a screen around the site of the demolition to prevent any photos from being taken.
Those involved in the actual work have been required to sign confidentiality agreements which forbid public discussion of the site, photographs or disclosure of any information about the building where 26 people were gunned down by 20 year-old Adam Lanza.
For months, the town agonized over what to do with the building and eventually opted to accept a state grant of $49.25 million to demolish the current school and build a new one on the same site. The new school is expected to open by December 2016.
The goal is to have the old building torn down by December 14, which marks the first anniversary of the shootings.
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