KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
Classes have been canceled at a Kansas City high school after a bomb threat was called in early Wednesday morning.
According to a spokesperson for the school district, a bomb threat was called in to Northeast High School about 6 a.m. Wednesday. The school is located at 415 Van Brunt Blvd.
School officials initially planned to delay the start of classes from 7:20 a.m. to 7:40 a.m. but later decided to cancel all classes.
Buses were brought to the scene to help get students home. Staff were relocated to a staff location.
Kansas City Police Department spokesman Darin Snapp said the Kansas City School District was beginning a pilot program of having truancy court at a school rather than in a courtroom setting. A judge was coming to Northeast High and today was to be the first day of truancy court at the school.
Parents were required to come and the hope was to prevent students from being taken from class.
Police are investigating whether the bomb threat was related to the launch of the program and if a parent telephoned in the bomb threat to be able to skip the hearing. The person who phoned in the bomb threat had the voice of a man and did not appear to be that of a child.
The man told police that a bomb was going to explode inside the school.
Police dogs spent almost two hours searching the building and found nothing.
School will resume as normal tomorrow. Classes earlier this school year were abbreviated at Northeast High because of late summer heat. The building doesn't have air conditioning and students were sent home early several days because of temperatures in the 90s.
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