Annunciation Catholic School principal Matthew DeBoer said it could invite families and students to return to classes in stages. It’s not clear yet when that will happen.

“We’re choosing to live in love, that’s the best security we can have, knowing our neighbors by name,” DeBoer told MPR News Thursday.

Two died and 21 people, most of them children, were injured on Aug. 27 as an individual with multiple weapons shot students and adults as they worshipped at the start of the school year. Students tried to shield others and took cover under pews as bullets, shrapnel and glass flew around them.

DeBoer said he and his colleagues were working on a plan with the help of trauma-informed specialists and other school leaders who had been through mass shooting incidents.

“We know kids need conne

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