Other students say they would have preferred to stay home at least one more day. It looks like any other day, parents dropping off their kids, others walking to school. Today students returned to classes with an overwhelming desire to talk about the event that rattled their lives. It was kind of scary because we never knew. People were talking about aftershocks. You never knew when one was going to come. Yeah, im really happy to be back. Its actually kind of scary. I would rather be at home since my mom is home alone. Reporter teachers encouraged students to talk about their experiences. Some were even allowed to text a friend or a family member. By telling the story, they get it off their chest. They let other kids know what was going on. And, you know, its therapeutic for a lot of kids, i believe. Reporter the school reopened only after engineers and architects inspected the buildings yesterday. It was just a big mess, a lot of breakage of bookshelves and things like that. Structural