There was a bomb threat at my son's school

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Yesterday my son's school had a bomb threat. All of the schools in our district had a threat. Someone sent a voicemail to someone at one of the schools saying that there was a bomb in one of the schools. Needless to say it was taken seriously and all of the schools were evacuated. Originally they didn't tell the kids anything just to leave the building but they found out later what was going on and my son was distraught. I had to go to the school and pick him up and he came running to me with tears in his eyes. He was terrified. My son is a sensitive kid and he genuinely cares about everyone and everything and the idea that someone might be hurt and killed even if he was safe really bothered him. Thankfully one of his teachers from last year stood with him gave him a hug and told him everything was going to be ok. She calmed him down for me when I couldn't be there. As a mother, that means a lot. When you can't be with your baby you want someone to be there for them until you can be. I'm so grateful to this woman for staying with my son and helping calm him down. I got there and one of the PTO ladies was helping out and saw me and called for my son and that teacher who was with him walked him up to me and didn't leave him until she saw me take him. I walked my son back to my dad's whose apartment complex is across from my son's school. My son asked to hold my hand because he wanted to feel close to me. My son is almost eleven but he didn't care what his friends would think. He was terrified and he wanted comfort. I haven't seen him so happy to see me since he was littler. It took them about an hour to find the caller. We were informed they were caught and arrested and charges are pending and that there were no bombs in any of the schools. We all sort of figured it was just a threat made by some kid to get out of school but won't know for sure until later. They need to learn from their actions. It wasn't funny. Parents and children were terrified. I'm sure some kids were fine but for kids like my son who have anxiety among other things, it is terrifying. It wasn't remotely funny especially the day before the anniversary of 9/11. I have to wonder if they were even born during that time because for those of us that were and are old enough to remember it was a very serious event and we think about those lives lost and I can't comprehend how anyone who was old enough to remember would find something like this funny so close to that date. My son didn't even want to go outside until he knew there was no bomb because he didn't want to see anyone get hurt and you can see his school from my dad's albeit it's far enough away that no one would be hurt but for my son it was about not wanting to see anyone hurt. My son had to leave everything in the school building including his backpack. They yanked them out of the school so fast and took them a safe distance from it to wait to be picked up. I have to say they handled the situation the best way they could. My son said no one even originally knew what was going on they were just told to leave the building and didn't find out until they were already safe. It was a scary day for everyone involved. While most of us figured it was a sick prank there is still that "what if" that goes through your mind. Most people who actually want to hurt people aren't going to warn anyone. They're just going to do it but you just never know. Everything needs to be taken seriously for a good reason. The fact that someone could joke about blowing up a bunch of kids is sickening. If it was a high school kid they have probably flushed their lives down the toilet all because they thought they were being funny.