Pancholy’s scheduled appearance at Mountain View Middle School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was unanimously overturned by the district’s school board in a public meeting on April 15. “If you research this individual, he labels himself as an activist, he is proud of his lifestyle and I don’t think that should be imposed upon our students at any age,” board member Bud Shaffner said at the meeting. Trisha Comstock, a former parent at the school, started a Change.
.com has reached out to Pancholy for comment. Brooke Ryerson, an LGBTQ high school sophomore, attended Mountain View Middle School. Ryerson and her mom plan to express their disappointment at the next board meeting on May 6. “It was going to be an assembly about empathy and anti-bullying,” Ryerson, 16, tells
.com in a phone interview that he had concerns that Pancholy would “go off script” and talk about politics. “Politically motivated discussions belong at home and not in the classroom,” Shaffner says. “A number of board members went to his website and what stuck out to all of us is that he’s a political activist.” Cumberland Valley School District spokesperson Tracy Panzer tells
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