Understandably, many parents rushed to Eastwood High School in Pemberville on Friday after getting the lockdown alert from the school.
Kids locked in the classrooms used their cell phones to text their parents updates.
Every time Wanda Fisher's cell phone beeped with a fresh text message from her daughter, she exhaled a little more out in the high school parking lot.
"She did text me and say they had found the ammunition," says Fisher, the mother of a freshman. "And they were just checking on things at this point. But she's a nervous kind of child so I wanted to be here as soon as they released them to be able to get her."
As soon as the lockdown lifted before noon, some parents like Fisher walked up to the doors to take their kids home early.
The doors were manned by Wood County Sheriff's Deputies.
"It's scary to know that someone brought ammo to school," says Max Tomaszewski, a freshman.
Tomaszewski says he was in the middle of taking a test during first period when the school went on lockdown.
"Some kid in our class got a text that said they found ammunition in the bathroom and then they put it on the announcements," says Natalie Reidling, a freshman.
"Three and a half hours. The lockdown was long," says Tomaszewski.
"There were a few people in my class who started freaking out that they were locked in a classroom. They were afraid," says Reidling.
Tomaszewski text his mom several times saying not to freak out, but she picked him up.
"I stayed away as long as I could," says Renee Tomaszewski, Max's mother. "I stayed away as they asked. But when it's all clear and I know they've cleared the students and they've cleared the building and I can come get him, I want him with me. I want to make sure he's safe. i want to see him for myself. I wanted to feel him myself."
"I'd rather overreact and by the hysterical mom and pull my kids out of the school for the day than stay and work and say, 'Just let me know what's going on.' No," says Beverly Kadas, the mother of two 6th graders at Eastwood Middle School.
Kadas pulled her kids out of the middle school this morning after hearing that the high school located on the same campus next door was on lockdown.
"They said everything's OK. They're going about the day normally, but I'm not comfortable with that given the situations that have happened elsewhere," says Kadas.
The Eastwood School District Superintendent sent a letter home to parents saying they found no weapons on the students. They're still trying to determine who is responsible for bringing ammunition to school. The ammunition found by a student in the boys bathroom Friday morning included 22 caliber rounds, 9 millimeter rounds, and a single 223 round.
"Most likely this is a situation where some innocent ... or at least his is my opinion or at least my take on it ... some innocent kid accidentally forgot he had some ammo in his pocket and got to school and went, 'Oh no!' It's a farm community. They do hunt," says Wanda Fisher, one of the mothers in the parking lot.
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