Exclusive | NYC school bosses changed F grade in advanced placement class, then targeted teacher who exposed the scheme: lawsuit

This “F” stands for fix!Queens school bosses changed an advanced placement student’s F grade to boost scores — then set their sights on the teacher who blew the whistle on the alleged grade fixing, a bombshell federal lawsuit claims.Information Technology High School English teacher Susan Muzafar, 33, failed an unnamed student but her superiors changed the grade without telling her and then hit her with disciplinary actions as revenge, she said in a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court.The move is just one example of bosses at the Long Island City school and the city Department of Education turning up the heat on educators to pass undeserving students, according to the lawsuit.“It opens up a huge can of worms.

Not every student who passed at the high school earned a passing grade from the teacher,” a source at the high school told The Post.Muzafar allegedly blew the whistle by filing complaints with the Special Commissioner of School Investigation and the College Board — which runs higher level advanced placement courses .Principal Jean Woods Powell then retaliated by giving Muzafar poor evaluations and restricting her assignments for additional pay, the complaint said.The May 1 suit says SCI informed Muzafar that it had opened an investigation into her grade fixing allegations.“This retaliation commenced after she [Muzafar] reported, both internally and to entities outside the NYCDOE, concerns about administrative misconduct, including fraudulent student grading practices, improper student course placements, and violations of educational protocols at her presently assigned school, at Information Technology High School in Queens,” her lawyer, Bryan Glass, wrote in the lawsuit.Muzafar mentioned the case of one of her students identified as “M.H.,” which the suit claims is emblematic of changing grades and scores from failing to passing at the school.“The grade change for M.H …exemplified ITHS’s pattern and practice of enrolling unquali...