Georgia high school principal secretly recorded using racial slur in front of student, district says

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A white high school principal in Georgia was secretly recorded by a student Friday using the N-word while comparing it to a slang term deemed offensive about white people, authorities said.

Jeff Cheney, the principal of East Forsyth High School in Gainesville, about 50 miles northwest of Atlanta, used the term while speaking to a white student in front of two other staff members, Forsyth County Schools said in a statement.

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