Parsippany High School

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Parsippany High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two high schools in the township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, as part of the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District. The school serves approximately 975 students who live in the eastern half of Parsippany who are in grades 9-12. Its companion school in the District is Parsippany Hills High School, which serves the western portion of the Township.

1 Awards and recognition
2 Athletics
3 Mock war crimes trial
4 Notable alumni
5 Administration
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Awards and recognition

Parsippany High School was the 84th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.^[1]

[edit] Athletics

The Parsippany High School Red Hawks participate in the twenty-member Iron Hills Conference. Students at Parsippany High can play many sports, such as football, soccer, Cross country running, marching band (in which they were the 2004 New Jersey State Champions), field hockey, volleyball, and cheerleading in the fall, basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, track, and cheerleading in the winter, and baseball, softball, track, tennis, and golf in the spring.

The school's mascot was originally a caricature of a Native American, and the teams were referred to as the Red Skins. However, that was changed recently due to concerns of political incorrectness.

[edit] Mock war crimes trial

On March 2, 2006, an Advanced Placement AP United States Government class taught by Mr. Joseph Kyle held a mock "war crimes" trial of President George W. Bush, in which students argued before a "jury" of five teachers whether or not Bush was guilty of "crimes against civilian populations" and "inhumane treatment of prisoners". Among the nine "witnesses" brought to the stand were Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen allegedly tortured by U.S. forces, international human rights attorney Michael Ratner, Larry Wilkerson, chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, retired CIA foreign policy analyst Ray McGovern, and U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. The trial was reported on by the Daily Record. A brief controversy ensued after the story was picked up by the Drudge Report, with talk-radio programs discussing the trial. Parsippany-Troy Hills Council Vice President James Vigilante, a Republican, said that the students were entitled to the right of free speech (the class's 27 students agreed upon the trial), while former Morris County Sheriff John Fox called the hearing "terrible" and "disturbing"^[2].