Lockdown Canceled at Plymouth-Canton P-CEP, Classes Resume

Buses have left the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, the lockdown has been canceled and classes will resume for the rest of the day.

"It was never an active threat," said Canton Police Sgt. Mark Gajesski, who described the police response, which included summoning the state police bomb squad.

It's the second lockdown this week at the three-school campus, which includes , and high schools. On Monday, after a threatening note was discovered in Salem High by a teacher.

Wednesday's incident also unfolded early. But unlike Monday, students were not moving between first- and second-hour classes. The alert, issued just before 8 a.m., meant students were kept in their first-hour classes for the duration of the incident in what is called a partial lockdown, meaning studies are supposed to continue.

Some parents indicated they would pick up their children even though classes were not canceled.

"We go from lockdown, bomb squad, buses waiting to all clear and everyone staying put in a little over an hour?????" Kathy Jurczyk Krzyzowski wrote on Canton Patch's Facebook page. "I don't know about anyone else but I don't want my child there right now!"

Other parents suggested the district close the schools to allow police to conduct a thorough search of the buildings.

District spokesman Frank Ruggirello Jr said the district takes every threat "as very serious."

Plymouth-Canton Community Schools’ Superintendent, Dr. Jeremy Hughes, will make a statement to the news media at 10:30 a.m. today at the Board of Education Office, 454 S. Harvey St., Plymouth.