It's sobering that one of our first back-to-school stories this August is all about a "shooter drill" in New Jersey. But that's the reality of back-to-school, 2013-style. This was a major school shooting simulation that took place at Liberty Middle School in West Orange on Tuesday. The story was reported by West Orange Patch.

Mary Mann with New Jersey News Commons at Montclair State University spoke with New Jersey Public Radio's David Furst about the exercise.