The principal at the junior high school on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana has been fired after she ordered four boys to undergo a strip search.
On May 2, Verna Ivey brought four students to her office and told them to strip down to their underwear. The boys were instructed to put their thumbs in the waist bands of the trunks and jump up and down, The Billings Gazette reported.
The search failed to turn up anything besides a wood tick and Ivey was promptly suspended without pay. She appealed the decision but the Lame Deer School Board voted to affirm the suspension and to ask the state Office of Public Instruction to revoke Ivey's license.
Ivey's contract ends June 8 and she won't be rehired for the next school year. The Bureau of Indian Affairs says it is investigating the incident.
Get the Story:Board backs firing of principal in strip search (The Billings Gazette 5/19) $rl Lame Deer Public Schools - http://www.lamedeer.k12.mt.us.phtemp.com
