Florida students set to return to scene of rampage

Thousands of students at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are preparing to return to classes this week amid an intensifying controversy over law enforcement efforts to halt the slaughter Feb. 14.

A “variety of support services” were available at a campus orientation Sunday for staff, students and families less than two weeks after the rampage left 17 dead and more than a dozen wounded.

Cameron Kasky, 17, a survivor turned activist, urged people to be kind to one another, “even if it’s not easy. We all mess up; there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Monday and Tuesday will be staff planning days, and classes resume Wednesday on a modified schedule. The full class schedule resumes March 5. The freshman building, where the carnage took place, will remain closed, and tentative plans call for its demolition.

While officials worked to reopen the school, scrutiny of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and his force grew. Republican Gov. Rick Scott ordered the state Department of Law Enforcement to investigate after reports that deputies responding to the rampage may have balked at entering the Parkland school.

Trump on Sunday told a gathering of governors that “we have some very important meetings” in the next few days regarding the shooting.

Trump said school safety is now a top priority: “I think we’ll make that first on our list.”