DV 2010: graduation or jail check?

I’m Michelle Canepa, and I just graduated from Delaware Valley High School, class of 2010 The graduation was quick and peaceful, but I didn’t feel like I was graduating, I felt like I was going into a jail check. I know in previous years, there were blow up dolls, or blown up condoms flying around, and even silly string, but I don’t think the amount of security that was there was necessary. Graduation is supposed to be a time where you have fun with your classmates for the last time, and you’re supposed to make it the most memorable day of your life. Well, it’s sad to say that my 7-year-old younger sister and even my mom are always going to remember me and the rest of my classmates opening our gowns and getting metal detected in the middle of the track where all the parents could see us. How embarrassing is that? The school tried to do whatever they could to prevent the students from bringing “havoc” to graduation, but they went about it in the wrong ways, which just made us angry, and provoked us to want to bring things to throw, and silly string to spray. The school tried to make a “good impression” by having security there, but was it necessary to have teachers or cops sitting at the end of every row of students? No! I felt like I couldn’t even breathe the wrong way without getting in trouble or arrested! Well, besides the cops, security guards, ambulance, principals, and teachers sitting there in front of us kids and breathing down our necks for the whole hour, graduation was a success and I’ll be sure to tell my future kids that I graduated with the class of 2010, along with the Milford Police Department. Michelle Canepa Milford