How principal Frank deAngelis is trying to rebuild Columbine High School

The principal at the school had to forgive those behind the attack there to rebuild the community, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler

Frank deAngelis didn’t know Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold well. Of the 1,600 students attending Columbine High School in April 1999, Harris and Klebold were exceptional only for their apparent hunger to graduate and get ahead.

“I did not know them well, but they were not kids who were in trouble or in my office,” says the former Columbine principal. “They were very clever young men; in advanced college classes and involved in performing arts. They were planning for the future.