Every day after the gunfire at their schools, administrators relived the terror of the moments and the hours when children shot children and their teachers. And they were powerless to stop it.
Healing can take years.
It can take forever, said school leaders at Columbine, Pearl and Thurston, campuses that share the legacy of school shootings. I just had chills up and down my spine. The principals and superintendents who know the anguish of school shootings can empathize with administrators in Santee and El Cajon. They know what they may face. You don't go through such a tragedy and return to what it was before.