So Kiera, I think what is being done to you is a gross abuse.
"Punk kid" was crawling on a roof. He was not authorized to be on said roof. He found the OP's science demonstration that he set up on the roof to go off during graduation. The "punk kid" told a gym teacher, who contained the experiment to his office and called the LAPD. The bomb squad arrived to investigate.
He worded it as if his "experiment" had been an invitation to the LAPD.
Unfortunately for the author, another student climbed the roof and discovered the 'experiment'. He reported it to a gym teacher, who was suspicious of what is was and subsequently called the Bomb Squad, therefore spoiling the graduation 'surprise'.
Another kid found it and reported it to an authority, who put it in his small enclosed office (thereby making it much less safe) and then called the bomb squad.
A "punk kid" discovers said "demonstration"
The "punk kid" tells the gym teacher
The gym teacher takes the "science demonstration" from where it was safely installed to his enclosed office
The gym teacher calls the LAPD bomb squad
I was uh, fingered by our Physics professor who ran into me before graduation, and said, "Jerry, what did you do?"
Was pulled off the grad night school bus just before it left for a talk with Nick the Narc, Principal, and LAPD.
We talked for a bit, I explained I hadn't done anything terribly unique, pissed them off by telling them I copied my designs from the Rockford Files (google it), and then they sent me off to Disneyland with the rest of my graduating class.
(Had I known how popular that made me on the bus that night, I would have done it sooner.)
Went to college, found one other engineering student in my small class of engineering students that had done practically the same thing I had done the same week within the same state.
This was back before zero tolerance of course, and back before GWOT, and back before we decided we had to burn down our own village in order to save our village.
Back when folks grew a sense of humor.
So Kiera, I think what is being done to you is a gross abuse.