The doors had been shuttered for 27 days.
And district leadership was grappling with the future of the elementary school.
They could tear down the building, as others had chosen to after Sandy Hook and Parkland. Or they could bring students back into the space where a month ago, a 16-year-old shot through the glass of Silver Rail Elementary and shattered the sense of security in the Central Oregon town, killing three special education students and a teacher.
