Goshen Intermediate School (also known as G.I.S.) educates students in
grades
Grade most commonly refers to:
* Grade (education), a measurement of a student's performance
* Grade, the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage
* Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope
Grade or grading may also r ...
3-
5 in the
Goshen Central School District
The Goshen Central School District is a public school district in Orange County, New York, United States. It educates children in the village of Goshen and most of the town, as well as the Campbell Hall section of the neighboring Town of Ham ...
, covering the eponymous village and
town in
Orange County, New York, United States. It is located on McNally Street in the village, not far from the other Goshen schools.
The building was constructed in 1967. It is the newest building in the district after
the high school. For the first nine years of its existence, prior to the construction of the high school, it was used as the district's
middle school.
In 2007 the school's then principal, Mary Ann Knight, caused a small controversy when she forbade a group of
fourth-graders from singing an
anti-war
An anti-war movement (also ''antiwar'') is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term anti-war can also refer to pa ...
song they had written as a project for
chorus
Chorus may refer to:
Music
* Chorus (song) or refrain, line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse
* Chorus effect, the perception of similar sounds from multiple sources as a single, richer sound
* Chorus form, song in which all verse ...
class after a parent complained.
While the lyrics did not mention any specific conflict, parents and school officials that it might be seen as expressing
opposition to the Iraq War, and they did not want the controversy overshadowing the school's spring concert.
References
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Public elementary schools in New York (state)
Schools in Orange County, New York
Buildings and structures completed in 1967
Goshen, New York
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