Mayor Bill de Blasio and his schools chancellor visit Stuyvesant High School two days after the terror attack that killed eight people came to a violent end outside the building. NY1's Roger Clark has the story.

It looked like a routine day as students at Stuyvesant High School made their way to classes. But the not so routine afternoon on Halloween was still fresh in their minds.

"I got to see the bodies on the floor," said student Daniel Zoxu. "They were just lying there. It was really scary."

Students at one of the city's most selective public high schools were too close for comfort as the events of Tuesday's terror attack unfolded outside their school on Chambers and West Streets - many students and teachers were locked down three  hours as the suspect was apprehended. Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina paid a visit Thursday to check in on students and teachers.

"They thought it was important to be at school the next day," the mayor said. "To mourn those that had been lost - and to show that terror would not stop us, would not change us."

Four of the injured were students and staff on a school bus rammed by the suspect's truck. The chancellor says while one student is on the mend after surgery, another less-seriously injured made it to school the next day to continue his perfect attendance streak.

"He said to me, I told myself, I know I'm going to be fine, because a lot of people are going to help me," said Chancellor Farina.

Some students told me they returned to school the day after the attack despite warnings from their parents to perhaps miss a day. 

"I felt okay but my parents were really worried," said student Chelsea Yan. "They were like, you shouldn't go to school."

But she did. They were consoled by teachers — at a school just five blocks away from the World Trade Center, some faculty were also here for the attacks on the Twin Towers in 1993 and 2001. History teacher Robert Sandler says he tried to teach as usual, but he and other teachers discussed the incident in their classrooms.

"I just felt like I didn't want to let this guys actions dominate our life too much," Sandler said. "But at the the same time I did talk about it at the beginning of each lesson. I felt it was important to address what happened."

"This is the third incident here, if you will, that I've been through," said teacher Dawn Fishman Vollero. "And it's hard. You have to come back. You have to fight back."

I asked a bunch of students if they felt any trepidation returning to classes after Tuesday's events. Most said no. As one student put it, he has confidence in the NYPD doing their job and keeping them safe.