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For Parkland Students and Teachers, Wrenching Questions Surround Return to School

Education Week: Holly Van Tassel-Schuster has not been back to her classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School since she left it after the mass school shooting there last week, changing her life and her town in an instant.

But she knows it remains largely untouched.

Students’ backpacks are piled up where they left them, inaccessible as the Parkland, Fla., campus turned into a massive crime scene cordoned off by police tape.

The 36-inch television Van Tassel-Schuster wheeled in front of the classroom door—planning to push it onto the gunman if he tried to enter—is likely still in the spot where it was moved aside as SWAT team members arrived to help escort students out of the building.

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