The next day, the students were in class.
"The students were in class at the time of the attack.
"What would you do if you were in class – where would you go?" "Under the table".
At 8 a.m., only three of Cathedral's 47 teachers were in class, said Stephanie, 16, a junior.
When enrichment students -- those who had enrolled voluntarily -- were factored in, about 63percentt of the students were in class.
"One day, we were in class and one of the effects that came up was a stutter.
She also wept as she described how a school for handicapped and deaf students collapsed while the children were in class.
There was a smattering of young women – I sat next to 16-year-old Katie Sproule, who took notes as though she were in class.
"This morning we were in class taking a test, and our principal came in and said, 'Everybody to the auditorium, there's somebody in the building,' " she said.
It was a weekend, and fewer students were in class, but Chinese people will be looking to see if the buildings survived.
At the same time, millions of schoolchildren have been sent to summer school: nearly one in five in the nation's large urban districts were in class last July.
