Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The outgoing principal of Fairfax County's elite Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology has apologized to students, parents and teachers for linking ethnicity to stealing and cheating by some students.
In the letter, Lodal said she was discussing theft and cheating in March at a PTSA meeting and "identified the ethnicity of the students who were caught and the percentage of these students who were involved with disciplinary issues in early 2006."
Lodal, who began her career in Fairfax schools in the 1970s and has been principal at three other schools, would not describe exactly what she said, but a teacher who attended the meeting and several parents who met with Lodal afterward said she noted that several of the offenders are Asian.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050201589.html