Dozens of students and recent graduates of Quakertown Community High School protested a graduation speech because they did’t like it.

The Intelligencer reports.

Quakertown grads protest school board president’s speech

At Thursday night’s graduation ceremony for Quakertown Community High School, the district’s school board president called on students to exercise their right to free speech.

The following day, they took his advice.

Dozens of students and recent graduates protested in front of the high school Friday morning, accusing school board president Paul Stepanoff of ruining their graduation by voicing his political views during his speech at commencement.

The topics he raised in his talk included the state’s pension crisis, flag burning, global warming and, most ardently, the right to “free speech.”

“Is just mentioning global warming political?” Stepanoff asked Friday. “I think any reasonable person who reads that speech will say there is no politics here. None.”

Stepanoff said the reasoning for the students’ protest was confusing.