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The Department of Education had to shred thousands of diplomas with former Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's name on them and then thousands more with Cathie Black's name.

The city spent more than $242,000 on printing costs this year which is more than three times the normal cost.

Last year, the DOE only spent $78,000 on diploma printing.

DOE officials said all diplomas were delivered to schools by Monday, but students at Long Island City High School had to wait until Wednesday to receive them.

NY1 was told by the high school's graduates that they were told to arrive at 8 a.m. but the diplomas were not ready until noon.

"Normally when we always get our report cards and programs, they're very organized in alphabetic order, separate lines. But today it was just a madhouse and they didn't say anything," said graduate Kiki Georgiadis.

"It was chaotic, really. It was half their fault because they didn't have anything together, but a lot of the kids just weren't willing to wait. They got out of control," said graduate Adam Ibrahim. "They started to try to storm all the guys doing the organization for their diplomas early, which just made things worse."

About 500 students were affected at the Queens high school.