Nearly 20 children returned to their preschool classrooms on Monday at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis.

“It’s so important that we stay together, that we stay in this because right now, we’re doing really well at doing community, and we want to stay that way together despite the impossibility of our circumstances,” Matthew DeBoer, the Annunciation principal, said in a video posted online Monday night.

Two children were killed and 21 people, most of them children, were injured on Aug. 27 when a person 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.

Over the weekend, one survivor of the shooting was released fr

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