BOURBON — Triton school leaders and police are trying to figure out the best way to keep students safe after three separate threats at the high school within a week.

No one is taking the situation lightly. At a school board meeting in Bourbon Monday night, parents had lots of questions.

"What are some of the precautions being taken?" asked one parent.

"Would you honestly send your child to school?" asked another.

There were few certain answers for parents and school leaders.

"We're quite concerned," said Joyce Sechrist, a concerned parent. "This has never happened."

Triton Superintendent Carl Hilling said he understands the parents' most precious possession is their children.

"This is one of those emotional issues that you're caught between a rock and a hard spot. No matter what you do it's never enough," Hilling said.

The school found the first threat at Triton High School last week. It said students would die on November 19. The school sent another letter home to parents Monday, saying they found two more threats.

"We're asking parents not to push the panic button," Hilling said. "We're taking it very serious."

The school already stepped up police patrols throughout the district of about 1,100 students.

Hilling said the corporation is looking at getting more security cameras, but some parents say more still needs to be done.

"This is the exact same kind of stuff that started Columbine," said one angry parent at Monday night's meeting. "Weeks beforehand there was a note, there was a threat left."

Students are on edge, too.

"I've had to sit in study hall and worry about kids that leave," one student told the school board. "We had two kids that walked out together, for no apparent reason at all."

Three threats in less than a week is frustrating for everyone.

"That's the other fear we have," explained Superintendent Hilling. "[It] could be the 17th, 18th, could be tomorrow."

Lots of investigators are trying to piece the threats together — from Marshall County Police to State Police, even the High Tech Crimes Unit in St. Joseph County. The school says it will continue to communicate any developments with parents and students.

Hilling said at this point, he's not sure whether there will be school on November 19 — a specific day mentioned in two of the threats. But many parents say they're not sure if they'll be sending their kids to school that day.