as a justification to eliminate the practice of affirmative action. Taxman was subsequently rehired. Both teachers returned to teaching in Piscataway. Williams went back to the high school, while Taxman was reassigned to Conackamack Middle School. Athletics The Piscataway High School teams are known as the Chiefs and wear the school colors of black and gold. The school is primarily known for football, basketball, and volleyball. The Chiefs compete in the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC), which is comprised of public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 1,715 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range. The football team competes in Division 5D of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group V North for football for 2018–2020. The football team has won the Central Jersey Group IV titles in 1974, 1981 and 2002, and won the North II Group IV state sectional championships in 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2011, the Central Group V title in 2016 and the North II Group V in 2018. The 1974 team won in one of the first seven games of the playoff era, defeating Colonia High School by a score of 14-7 in the championship game played indoors at Atlantic City Conventional Hall. In 1981, the team won the Central Jersey Group IV title with a 20-0 win against Middletown High School South in the finals. The 2002 team won the Central Jersey Group IV sectional title with a 14-7 win against Hunterdon Central Regional High School, earning consideration from the Courier News as one of "the best in GMC history". In 2004, the team finished with a 12-0 record after winning the North II Group IV title against Phillipsburg High School in overtime by a score of 27-26. In 2008, the team finished the season at 11-1 after winning the North II Group IV state sectional title by a score of 38-0 in the championship game against Hunterdon