CAZENOVIA - Barely a week after a shooting that killed their principal, students at Weston Schools returned to classes Thursday wearing T-shirts proclaiming the 49-year-old school leader a superhero.

"Everybody seems to be happy just to be back in school," said Jane Huth, a secretary for the district.

A majority of the school's 370 students in grades kindergarten through 12 were back at their desks for the first time since the Sept. 29 shooting, Huth said.

Counselors were available, and an armed Sauk County sheriff's deputy was stationed at the front entrance to the school.

The resumption of classes came a day after hundreds packed the school gym for Principal John Klang's funeral.

Each student at school Thursday got a T-shirt proclaiming Klang a superhero, playing into the new theme for Weston High School's homecoming, which was rescheduled after the shooting.

"Everybody, from students to staff, is wearing one," Huth said.

The royal blue T-shirt was decorated with a big "W" on the front and proclaimed "John Klang is my superhero."

Homecoming for the Silver Eagles now is scheduled for Oct. 14.

Students gathered later Thursday near a sign outside the school for a picture as part of a ceremony to plant a tree in Klang's memory, Huth said.

"We have memory boxes out front too if kids want to write letters," she said. "We are doing that during their English time."

Eric Hainstock, a 15-year-old freshman, is accused of walking into the school before classes started and shooting Klang three times before he disarmed the boy. The shooting occurred inside the main entrance after a janitor wrestled a shotgun from Hainstock.

Hainstock told detectives he was upset with Klang because the principal disciplined him a day before the shooting for having tobacco in the school, according to a criminal complaint charging the teen with first-degree intentional homicide.

A representative of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state teachers union, presented a white rose to each staff member, Huth said.

"We have had just an outpouring of community support," she said. "It has been unbelievable."