Hopkins School parent banned for heckling graduation speakers on race

NEW HAVEN — The head of a private college preparatory school said a parent has been banned from campus who “repeatedly heckled” commencement speakers as they discussed racial injustice during the school’s drive-in graduation ceremony last week.

Kai Bynum, head of Hopkins School, wrote in a letter to the school community that the parent “who harassed our commencement speakers” during Thursday’s graduation has been banned from the campus.

The announcement came after the Instagram account blackathopkins posted a story claiming a parent “rolled down his window and yelled ‘Get off the stage!’” while a faculty member was giving a speech during the commencement.

The faculty member had said “black people came here against their will and built much of this country against their will,” as part of his commencement address before the parent made the remark, according to the Instagram post.

Read more: https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Hopkins-School-parent-banned-for-heckling-15452996.php

Students reaction: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDUDrR0pMmO/?utm_source=ig_embed