Oak Lawn Students Return to 'New Reality' After Sandy Hook Shootings

Local school officials spend Monday reviewing building security, helping students ease back into school on first day back since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

Oak Lawn’s public and parochial students returned to school on Monday to an increased police presence around local campuses on their first day back at school since last week's Connecticut school shootings. “The increased police presence was at all of our buildings just to serve as reassurance for our families,” Oak Lawn-Hometown Dist. 123 spokesman Ben Grey said. While students eased back into schoolwork and met with counselors, school administrators around Oak Lawn were reviewing building security, particularly external doors, to see if anything more could be done to prevent a possible shooter from entering their respective buildings. The horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings that left 20 children and six adults dead also …

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Post Your Back to School Pics on Patch

Happy? Sad? Post your first-day-of-school pics on Oak Lawn Patch.

THE BOOK REPORT: Did Babe Call His Shot?

A new weekly column where Oak Lawn elementary school students talk about the books they're reading for class. Jonathan Hernandez kicks off 'The Book Report' with his report on the novel 'Babe and Me.'

Welcome to 'The Book Report,' a new column featuring the best book reports written by students attending Oak Lawn schools. Jonathan Hernandez, a fourth-grader at St. Linus School, reviews the Scholastic book 'Babe and Me,' by Don Gutman. Jonathan's assignment in Ms. Minarik's class was to write a book report 'newspaper style.' We think Jonathan did a great job. In addition to being an avid reader and athlete, Jonathan is also one of the best robot dancers in Oak Lawn. If you had the chance to meet one famous person who would it be? For 10-year old Joe it was Babe Ruth. In 1932 Babe hit a home run in game 3 of the World Series against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, and many people asked if he called his shot. Joe was able to time travel…

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