Pine Bush High School

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Pine Bush High School
Location
Pine Bush, New York
Information
School district Pine Bush Central School District
Principal Aaron Hopmayer
Enrollment

2,086 [1]
Faculty 133[2]
Type Public
Grades 9-12
Athletics Football, Soccer, Cross-country, Volleyball, Track, Wrestling, Basketball, Baseball, and Lacrosse
Mascot Bushmen
Color(s) Blue, Gold
Established 1938
Homepage School Homepage

Pine Bush High School is the central high school for the Pine Bush Central School District, located on NY 302 in the hamlet of Pine Bush, New York. Drawing over 2,000 students from northwestern Orange County and the adjacent portions of Sullivan and Ulster counties.

The school offers the International Baccalaureate degree program. It has been authorized to do so since 2002.[3]

[edit] Controversies

In October 2007 multiple students in the area reportedly had staph infection. On the Pine Bush Central School District website there is information telling parents how to keep their children safe.[4][5][6]

In October 2004 the school made national news when senior Joshua Phelps was suspended for 21 days for possessing a firearm on campus.[7] The weapon in question was a musket, which Phelps had forgotten to remove from his car after participating in a Civil War re-enactment. Town of Crawford police charged him with a misdemeanor after confiscating the gun, a bayonet and ammunition from the vehicle. He received many letters of support locally and nationally, particularly from members of the National Rifle Association, but the school district refused to lessen his punishment, citing zero tolerance policies it and many other schools adopted in the wake of the Columbine massacre several years earlier.[8] The criminal charge was later dropped.[9]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pine Bush Central Schools
  2. ^ New York State School Report Card, Accountability and Overview Information, Pine Bush High School 2006-07PDF (526 KiB)
  3. ^ Pine Bush High School. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.
  4. ^ Pine Bush High School website home page
  5. ^ Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MSRA) New York State Dept of Health
  6. ^ Worried about staph? Wash your hands Times Herald-Record, October 31, 2007
  7. ^ "School suspends student Civil War re-enactor for bringing musket to school" USA Today, October 27, 2004
  8. ^ Wade, Christian. "Teenager with musket suspended for 21 days", Times-Herald Record, October 27, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-09-01. 
  9. ^ "Policy makes zero sense", Times-Herald Record, February 14, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-31. 

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