School safety concerns persist in Minnesota as new school year begins

Two weeks before the first day of classes, teachers and staff at Bloomington’s Valley View Middle School were already back at work, participating in the kind of surreal back-to-school preparation that’s become routine for schools around the country.

Along with dozens of police officers, firefighters and paramedics, school staff members and a cadre of student volunteers — some of them wearing disturbingly realistic makeup made to look like gunshot wounds — ran through a school-shooting training exercise.

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