Hatboro-Horsham High School

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Hatboro Horsham High School

School type	Public
District	Hatboro-Horsham School District
Grades	9-12
Principal	Dennis M. Williams, Jr.
Athletic Conference	Suburban One League - Continental
Colors	Red & Black
Mascot	The Hatters
Location	899 Horsham Road Horsham, PA 19044
Website	Hatboro-Horsham High School

Hatboro-Horsham High School is a public high school, containing grades 9 - 12, located in Horsham, Pennsylvania, 25 miles outside of Philadelphia. It is the only high school in the Hatboro-Horsham School District.

1 Principals
2 Controversies
3 Interesting facts
4 Notable alumni
- 4.1 Sports
- 4.2 Music
5 External links

[edit] Principals

Name	From	To
David Hottenstein	1984	2000
James Sullivan	2000	2005
Dennis M. Williams, Jr.	2005	Present

[edit] Controversies

[edit] Morgan Spurlock

The school received national news attention in March of 2006 over an incident with Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker known mostly for the documentary Supersize Me. During an assembly Spurlock made several remarks that were deemed inappropriate by the school’s administration, leading to the principal (Mr. Dennis Williams) dimming the lights, turning off the microphones, and ending the assembly. [1]

Spurlock posted an apology on his blog, and also revealed that he was asked to not talk about McDonald’s during his speech, because a school board member owns a McDonald’s franchise. [2]

[edit] Assisted Abortion

In 1999, it was revealed that William Hickey, a guidance counselor at high school, assisted a young girl in obtaining an abortion. The girl was impregnated by her boyfriend in Tennessee before moving to the district and discovering that she was pregnant. Her parents, she felt, would have disagreed with her obtaining an abortion, and in Pennsylvania parental consent is required for someone under 18 to have an abortion. Subsequently, she confided in Hickey, who cashed checks from her boyfriend using school bank accounts, wrote excuses for her to miss class, and drew her a map to an abortion clinic in New Jersey, where she could obtain the abortion without consent. [3]

The girl's parents later found out, and sued Hickey and the school district. In a settlement, the family received 20,000 dollars in damages, and the school district created an official policy stating that faculty members could not assist a student in getting an abortion. Hickey continued on in his role for many years, until his eventual retirement.

[edit] HatChat

In 2000, the high school became the center of a controversy over censorship of the student newspaper, The Hat Chat. A satirical article [4] dealing with flatulence resulted in the confiscation and destruction of 1,200 copies of the newspaper at the insistence of the then-principal interim, Connie Malatesta. Subsequently, the newspaper's adviser, English teacher Robin Farr, had her advising duties revoked. [5]

[edit] Bomb threats

In the 2005-2006 school year, there was a string of bomb threats found in the school. Students at one time were forced to lock down the school while bomb-sniffing dogs came into the school to search the building. Students were also sent outside after a threat was discovered and were searched upon entering the building for the next several days.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Code of conduct

After a controversy when the school decided to suspend certain players from sports teams, every team or club is now required to sign a "code of conduct". [6] The HH Code of Conduct. [7]

[edit] Interesting facts

MTV News featured a story on Hatboro-Horsham High School being a paperless school. [8] However, this concept is only experimented with a few science classes. Even those science classes still use paper especially for tests and quizzes.