Exclusive | Crossed boundaries: Assistant principal at top Queens high school accused of harassing 13 Asian girls

An assistant principal who served as the “sexual harassment prevention” liaison at a top Queens public school was removed after 13 girls accused him of creepy behavior and comments, The Post has learned.Hector L.Diaz — also the “Respect for All” liaison at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College — commented that girls looked dressed for “the club,” used racial stereotypes about Asian-Americans, grabbed a girl’s arm, and rubbed another’s back, according to incidents described for investigators.One of the city Department of Education’s elite specialized high schools, QHSS is located on a CUNY campus in Jamaica with 498 students — 81% of them Asian.“His lack of professionalism and inappropriate behavior has impacted my friends, peers and close-knit community of students,” Kiki Zou,17, a QHSS senior told Principal Ana De Jesus in an April 17 email.A student government leader sent the principal a litany of 10 complaints by female classmates over the past school year, with girls saying Diaz made them feel not only uncomfortable, but “threatened and scared.”Excerpts include:A student who told De Jesus about the incidents said the principal promised to discuss them with the superintendent, but the student never heard back.The student forwarded classmates’ complaints to the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools.The SCI has opened nine cases against Diaz since 2023, including seven this year, but did not investigate any, a spokesman said.Instead, SCI referred the complaints to the DOE’s own Office of Special Investigations, and one to the DOE’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management. Diaz, 54, holds state certification as a pre-K to Grade 6 elementary teacher, and as a school building leader. In 2009, Diaz was named a dean and several years later an interim assistant principal in The Bronx at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, which the DOE shut down after an 18-year-old stud...