Amish Schoolhouse Reopens After Massacre
April 2, 2007

NICKEL MINES, Pa. -- Amish children carrying lunch pails arrived Monday morning at a new school symbolizing a new beginning for the students who survived a shooting that killed five of their classmates exactly six months ago.

The New Hope Amish School, a few hundred yards from the spot where the massacre took place, is protected by more sophisticated locks on its doors and is reachable only by a private drive.

It replaces the West Nickel Mines Amish School, which was torn down Oct. 12. Ten days earlier, milk truck driver Charles Carl Roberts IV shot 10 girls inside the school and then committed suicide as police closed in. the rest