Columbine lessons still being learned 25 years later | Education [Video]

What happened at Columbine High School 25 years ago wasn’t the first or the last mass shooting at a school in America, but it was the first covered in a 24-hour news cycle and it remains deeply ingrained in the American psyche.

The tragedy prompted a national debate on guns and mental health and unprecedented changes to school security.

“I loved Columbine,” Frank DeAngelis, the former principal of Columbine High School said. “It was like my second family. And then April 20, 1999 came, a day in which my life changed forever. And not only my life. I think it changed the country and the world.”

DeAngelis retired in 2014 from Jefferson County Public Schools after 30 years, 18 as principal at Columbine, including that fateful day. He now helps others work through the trauma similar to what he experienced at Columbine.

On April 20, two students killed 12 schoolmates …