Abdurrahim Ali, assistant assistant principal at Bread and Roses High School in Harlem, was fined $7,000 for tampering with a student’s results.
He admitted to changing the grades for his son and his teammates on the school basketball team who were struggling academically.
“He would come to class, and then leave, and curse you out,” said the boy’s teacher
“This was a remedial class. His son wasn’t meeting standards.”
Ali told officials that he had hacked into the schools computer system and changed not just exam results, but entire course grades for the team.
“I used my Bread and Roses administrator identification and password to log into the Bread and Roses student grading program and changed 11 of my son’s exam and course grades from failing to passing scores,” said Ali in a sworn deposition.
Ali has not been fired from the school, and will continue to draw his $104,437 salary while the Education Department reassigns him.
