(TNS) - When Aledo and Joshua students head back to class, they’ll find police officers on their campus full time.

Weatherford students will know that some teachers and school employees likely are carrying concealed handguns.

And Fort Worth students will know police are monitoring school safety cameras in real time — and that school nurses are getting trained to treat victims of active shooters.

“We are consistently looking out for our kids,” said Susan Bohn, superintendent of Aledo schools, adding that teaching students in a safe environment is an everyday concern. “It’s never something that is out of our minds.”

This comes in the wake of mass school shootings last school year from Parkland, Florida, to Santa Fe, Texas.

Safety concerns subsided over the summer, but school officials locally and across the country worked to find ways to make students and teachers as safe as possible.

“It’s no surprise that things have been silent for a few months, it’s obviously because school’s out,” Anika Shah, a senior at Southlake Carroll Senior High School told the Star-Telegram in an email. “But now, students are back to being scared and wondering if they will come back home. Parents and teachers share the same fear. As far as change, I still feel as if much hasn’t been done.”

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