mdcps allegations

9 August, 2019

A few months ago, Neva King Cooper School (NKC) school principal Dr. Tracy Roos and assistant principal Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) faced an investigation into allegations that they had cheated on the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA). The FAA is the yearly achievement test given to Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) students. Those allegations were so serious that had these two administrators been found guilty of this infraction, they could have potentially been terminated and lost their pensions as well. Fortunately for these two administrators, the State of Florida decided to pass the buck and allow Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) to investigate itself, despite the fact that MDCPS faced severe sanctions had it found two of its administrators guilty of cheating on this test. MDCPS had a clear conflict of interest. As the whistleblower, I BEGGED the Florida Office of inspector General to turn the invesdtigation over to an independent investigative body, such as the Florida Bureau of Investigation, or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but this was not done. To the surprise of no one, MDCPS absolved Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) of all wrongdoing, despite considerable evidence to the contrary (such as the fact that staff were awarded bonuses for outstanding achievement on the FAA ONLY after Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) became the NKC administrators A reasonable and rational administrator, after being investigated for this potentially career ending charge, would temper his or her future actions, at least for a brief period of time following the investigation. Dr. Roos does not give the appearance of being a reasonable or rational administrator. I say this because just days after being let off the hook for alleged cheating on the FAA, Dr. Roos allegedly summoned Mr. Ray Morrison, an African American NKC staff member, for a closed door meeting. It is highly likely that Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer), the NKC assistant principal, also attended this closed door meeting. At that meeting, Dr. Roos allegedly demanded that Mr. Morrison give her an accounting of any conversation(s) Mr. Morrison had had with myself (Bill Detzner) during Mr. Morrison’s off duty hours. This is a highly illegal activity that Dr. Roos has allegedly done many, many times over the past 7 years with many different staff members, including myself. I can think of three possible reasons why Dr. Roos chose to engage in this clearly illegal activity just days after being absolved of potentially career ending charges.

The first possible explanation for this breathtaking lack of respect for obeying the MDCPS contract and state and Federal laws is that it is possible that Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) are unable to restrain themselves from engaging in clearly illegal activities, even after recently facing potentially career ending charges. The second possible explanation is that Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) have experienced few or no adverse consequences from their superiors , even after committing numerous egregious offenses. Indeed, Dr. Roos, shortly after allegedly illegally threatening to involuntarily transfer a grieving African American mother to another school shortly after the brutal murder of that woman’s daughter, found herself nominated as a candidate to the most prestigious award a MDCPS principal can earn . (the Principal of the Year Award). The third possiblity is that both possibilities are simultaneously true. Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) give the impression of being unable to restrain themselves from engaging in numerous egregious illegal behaviors. Additionally, Florida educational bureaucrats, both at the state of Florida level and at the MDCPS level seem to have little or no motivation to require these two NKC administrators to obey the MDCPS contract, Florida state law, or Federal law. I personally feel that the third possibility is the most likely scenario.

Although over the past 4 years, I have sent 9 certified letters to United Teachers of Dade (UTD) president Ms. Hernandez Mats, 33 certified letters to MDCPS school board members, and 9 certified letters to MDCPS superintendent Alberto Carvalho, I have received not a single word of response from any of these people. NOT. A. SINGLE. WORD. Additionally, I have also sent 3 certified letters to the Florida Office of Inspector General, 6 certified letters to Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran, and 4 certified letters to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. ( I have retained my green cards to prove these people received my certified letters.) Neither Dr. Roos or Mrs. Fernandez behavior has improved even slightly or temporarily as a result of all those letters over a 4 year period of time.

Governor DeSantis, I am wondering if during the sham, make believe “investigation” of cheating on the FAA by Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez if a question very different from what I hoped was being asked was the actual focus of that investigation. The question that myself and the frightened, desperate parents of the severely mentally retarded students of NKC (most of whom literally cannot speak for themselves) HOPED was being asked was : Did Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez cheat on the FAA? The question the NKC stakeholders FEAR was asked was: Have the NKC stakeholders made a substancial financial contribution to Governor DeSantis reelection campaign? As the answer to that second question is “No”, the stakeholders fear we were given a sham, make believe investigation, with a predetermined not guilty verdict. Florida has a well deserved reputation as a “Pay to Play” state. Any party that has not made a substancial contribution to the pertinent Florida politician’s reelection campaign can expect little or nothing from that “public servant,” even if it is part of that politician’s job to perform the duty asked of him or her. In the sham FAA cheating investigation, although I listed 6 people the investigators needed to talk to, only 2 of those people were interviewed. Furthermore, those people were only asked very carefully worded questions that were designed to let the two NKC administrators off the hook. For example, the two people interviewed were asked if they had observed the STAFF cheating on the FAA. That was not my accusation. My accusation was that Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) might have cheated by erasing some incorrect answers on the answer sheets AFTER teachers had turned in the completed answer sheets and then filling in correct answers.

There is a second investigation pending against Dr. Roos for allegedly physically assaulting an African American profoundly mentally retarded child. I have had three or four in-depth conversations with the man conducting the investigation, so he knows who all the pertinent witnesses are. The concern that myself and the other NKC stakeholders have is that given the fact that none of us have made a substancial financial contribution to Governor DeSantis reelection campaign, this will also be a sham, make believe investigation, with a predetermined not guilty verdict. Then, when a severely mentally retarded child dies a violent and entirely preventable death of choking to death on his/her food, or Dr. Roos has yet another emotional breakdown, and allegedly physically assaults yet another PMH student, or another NKC staff member, Governor DeSantis can shake his head sadly and say, “This cannot be blamed on me, because I conducted not one but two [sham] investigations. and found no wrong doing”

Governor DeSantis, the desperate and badly frightened parents of NKC children fear that not only have you slammed the door in their faces, you have locked and bolted the door as well. Although you have known about the crisis at NKC since December 2018, and even though I have sent you 4 certified letters, and even though you have had 2 months between the end of the 2018-2019 school year and the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, and even though the legislative session finished several months ago, leaving you with little to do besides cutting ribbons and going on a junket to Israel, you give the appearance of having done little or nothing to safeguard the lives of PMH children in that intervening time.. The new school year will begin in one week, and I guess to you it will be business as usual, and PMH children must face another school year with the threat of choking to death on their food (a form of Russian Roulette) or allegedly being physically assaulted by a principal who has allegedly confessed to suffering from an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and who has repeatedly demonstrated that she appears to have little or no ability to control her abusive and at times physically violent behavior. It will be the 8’th consecutive year that the student and staff inmates of NKC are under lockdown for the “crime” of attempting the [supposedly] legally protected action of exploring conversion from a public school to a charter school. It will be the 8’th consecutive year that NKC staff will be screamed at and spoken to in a very harsh and disrespectful way by both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer). Although I have never been a prison inmate, I suspect that the way myself (prior to my retirement) and the other NKC serfs/staff are treated and spoken to by both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez closely resembles the interactions between prison guards and prison inmates. There is one notable difference between the staff and residents of a prison and the administrators and serfs/staff of NKC. The difference is that although the serfs/staff of NKC are spoken to very harshly and disrespectfully by the two NKC administrators, those two administrators expect and get very servile, meek, and deferential treatment from the serfs/staff. As you already know, one of the alleged victims of Dr. Roos physical assault was a social worker employed at NKC. This person was not a UTD member. It speaks volumes about the fact that a SOCIAL WORKER, a “canary in a coal mine” if there ever was one, did NOT feel confident enough in the internal investigative MDCPS policing bodies to report this crime. MDCPS employees have the very well founded belief that the internal investigative bodies responsible for policing the district function NOT to protect employees, but to hide the abuse of employees by MDCPS administrators and to retaliate against those employees foolish enough to report that abuse. Governor DeSantis, if you or any person conducting this investigation is interested in interviewing this social worker, he/she is still a MDCPS employee at a different school. (I can’t imagine why this person chose to no longer work at NKC!)

Mr. Carvalho has been the MDCPS superintendent for over 10 years. He gives the appearance of being a very corrupt man. Many people say that MDCPS is in fact a criminal enterprise and that Al Carvalho runs the nation’s fourth largest school district the same way Al Capone ran his criminal enterprise. A Florida governor who genuinely wanted to pursue educational reform might want to conduct a district wide investigation of MDCPS. I think such an investigation would reveal a treasure trove of corruption by Al Carvalho and his top lieutenants. Governor DeSantis, are you a governor who is interested in educational reform?

As I was also once summoned to Dr. Roos office to illegally discuss who I was talking to in my off duty hours, I will describe my experience so you can understand what Mr. Ray Morrison, an African American NKC staff member was subjected to just a few weeks ago. These meetings closely resemble what you see on television drama shows when an alleged criminal is interrogated by police detectives. They are VERY, VERY unpleasant and intimidating meetings. An NKC serf/staff member who is subjected to one of these interrogations checks his/her dignity and self-worth in at the door. Please remember, the serf/staff member will be written up for insubordination if he/she either fails to attend or walks out of the illegal meeting. (If you are having trouble understanding why I call this an illegal meeting, try to imagine what would happen if Mr. Morrison or myself summoned either NKC administrator to such a meeting and in a very rude, harsh, and unpleasant voice demanded to know who this administrator was talking to in her off duty hours.) I guess the obvious question is: If it is illegal for staff to do this to administrators, why has Dr. Roos allegedly done this to staff over and over again for 7 years, with 9 unanswered certified letters sent to Ms. Hernandez Mats, and nothing done about it??? I am not the only one to bring the abuses of NKC administrators to the attention of Ms. Hernandez Mats. Another UTD member of NKC, at great personal risk to himself/herself, has had several in-depth conversations with Ms. Hernandez Mats about the numerous egregious contract violations of the two NKC administrators. Ms. Hernandez Mats has done NOTHING to address this UTD member’s concerns.

Both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez will be present at this illegal interrogation meeting. This puts the serf/staff member in a VERY,VERY vulnerable position. Both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fertnandez frequently lie and fabricate untrue and potentially career ending charges against serfs/staff. If the serf/staff member is insufficiently meek, servile, and penitent during this meeting,, he/she runs the risk of the two NKC administrators lying about what took place during the illegal interrogation. My blog mdcpsallegations.com has listed many examples of this. The serf/staff member had better assume an attitude of extreme meekness, and servility or he/she may be written up for insubordination or falsely accused of potentially career ending charges. I was asked if I was having conversations with Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol ( the 2 NKC administrators that crime boss Al Carvalho illegally removed from NKC for pursuing the [supposedly] legally protected activity of exploring conversion to a charter school. If you want to read about the very brazen and egregious lawbreaking done by crime boss Al Carvalho in smashing NKC’s coversion attempt to a charter school, refer to DOAH 13-1492 Theoretically, I had the right to very politely inform Dr. Roos that my after hours activities and conversations were not open for discussion. The reality was that I feared that even though I had been a UTD member for 30 years, and the union steward at my school for 10 years, my UTD president, Ms. Hernandez Mats would not so much as lift a finger to protect me, and then stand by and do nothing when I was retaliated against if I was stupid enough to report Dr. Roos to UTD, or to decline to answer her questions about who I was speaking to in my off duty hours.

While I am talking about Ms. Hernandez Mats, a few months ago, the Miami Herald ran a story about a former MDCPS teacher who was accused of allegedly sexually molesting several of his students. Not only was this person a UTD steward, he was in the top echelons of leadership in UTD. Perhaps it is merely a coincidence, but the very serious charges against him were put on the back burner for a very long time, and he was allowed to remain in the classroom with students. Anytime a UTD steward got up at the monthly UTD stewards meeting to complain that Ms. Hernandez Mats was doing little or nothing to enforce the contract, this very large and intimidating man would allegedly get out of his chair and stand very close to that union steward and glower at them. The Miami Herald article seemed to wonder if there was a quid pro quo agreement between this man and the UTD leadership that these charges would be put on the back burner if this man agreed to attempt to intimidate anyone who criticized the UTD nonenforcement of the contract.

Dr. Roos, the next few lines of my blog are written exclusively for you. In the four years since I have retired, I have had NOT A SINGLE WORD, MEETING, OR COMMUNICATION OF ANY SORT with Mr. Ray Morrison. I WILL HAVE NO COMMUNICATION OF ANY SORT WITH MR MORRISON IN THE FUTURE. For this reason, I am not asking you, I am BEGGING you not to have any further interrogations against Mr. Morrison. The reason I am BEGGING you and not asking you is because I know that even though Governor DeSantis, crime boss Al Carvalho, the 9 school board members, and UTD President Hernandez Mats will all read this blog entry, it is highly unlikely that any one of them will so much as lift a finger to stop Dr. Roos from doing this clearly illegal action of interrogating the serfs/staff of NKC about their off duty actions and/or conversations. As a point of interest, MDCPS supposedly has “A zero tolerance for bullying!!!” I am hoping the readers of this letter are able to see the many, many violations of this rule that I have described in this letter.

Dr. Roos, as you well know, both you and Mrs. Fernandez are above the law and are highly unlikely to suffer even a mild rebuke, no matter how egregious your violations of the law are. (such as your openly discriminatory practices against African Americans.)

An exasperated NKC serf/staff member recently asked me if I thought Governor DeSantis would intervene if Dr. Roos posted a You Tube video of herself physically abusing a severely mentally retarded child. My reply was that unless the governor also received a generous contribution to his reelection campaign, the incident would probably be swept under the carpet, although it might be grounds for crime boss Al Carvalho to nominate Dr. Roos for the MDCPS Principal of the Year award.

Governorr DeSantis, although I have said this in the past, I feel I need to repeat it again for your deaf ears. There are no charter schools for severely mentally retarded children in Miami-Dade County. This presents the parents of NKC children with two HORRIBLE choices. The first choice is to send their child to NKC, where that child faces the possibility of an easily preventable horrible death from choking to death on his food, or being allegedly physically assaulted by Dr. Roos. The second choice is to keep their child out of NKC. This choice will result in the child being involuntarily removed from his/her home and placed into a foster home. As you know, some Florida foster homes are staffed by monsters who physically and/or sexually assault the children in their care. Given the fact that these are the only two choices available to NKC parents, I think a fair and reasonable person would draw the conclusion that NKC parents and their children are actually hostages. IF (and I want to emphasize that I am using the word “IF”) it is also true that you will not do your Constitutionally MANDATED duty to step in and protect the most vulnerable children in Florida until and unless a generous contribution is made to your reelection campaign, then I believe it would also be fair to refer to this “Campaign contribution” as a ransom. Hence, the question at the beginning of this blog post: Mr. DeSantis, are you a Governor, or are you a Gangster?

Given the fact that I have sent 33 unanswered letters to MDCPS school board members, over a 4 year period, and 9 unanswered certified letters to MDCPS crime boss Al Carvalho, a reasonable person would draw two conclusions. The first conclusion would be that MDCPS has no intention of protecting these extremely vulnerable children. The second conclusion would be that you as the Governor of Florida are OBLIGATED (campaign contribution or not) to step in and remove the two NKC administrators who have committed numerous egregious violations against the students, parents, and staff of NKC for SEVEN years. Since DOAH 13-1492 clearly shows that crime boss Al Carvalho illegally removed Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol, I am hoping you will very strongly suggest to crime boss Al Carvalho that these two fine gentlemen be restored to their posts as the NKC administrators..

As I stated in the certified letter that I asked Randy Kosec to share with you (Governor DeSantis) and Commissioner Richard Corcoran, since neither the NKC stakeholders or myself have much money, I am going to post an entry on the “Go Fund Me” page asking people to contribute to raise enough money to motivate Governor DeSantis to execute his MANDATED Constitutional duty to protect severely mentally retarded students. I am going to ask the Democratic Party of Florida to give this as much publicity as possible. I am hoping that post will go viral. I am hoping to achieve one of two goals. The first goal would be to raise enough money to motivate you as the governor of Florida to take action to protect Florida’s most vulnerable and at risk children. If that cannot be done, I am hoping the amount of outrage my post generates will be enough to motivate you to protect these children. The heroic students of Marjory Stoneman Douglass have a wonderful slogan (i.e. “Never Again”) While I wholeheartedly support that slogan, I am wondering if your personal secret slogan is “Again and Again, unless I get a large financial contribution.” Your action or lack of action will show if my last statement is accurate.

If you issue a gag order against me, other people have volunteered to continue my blog. As you already know, the parents of NKC children have a fear that if Dr. Roos learns the identity of parents who are going public with their concerns, those parents fear that Dr. Roos or MDCPS will cause their children to be involuntarily removed from their homes and placed into foster homes. It will be just like in “The Bad Old Days.” Back then, when African American parents insisted that their children be treated with dignity and respect in their schools, a large burning cross was thrust on their lawn in an attempt to intimidate them into silence. While this shameful practice can no longer be done, child protective services can be used to accomplish the same goal. Governor DeSantis, if Dr. Roos and/or crime boss Al Carvalho resort to this tactic of using child protective services to remove severely mentally retarded children from their homes if parents have the temerity to insist that the school principal NOT physically assault NKC students, will you allow this to happen on your watch as Florida’s governor?

I will end this letter with a few questions for you: They are questions I have asked you before. 1) Do severely mentally retarded children have a right to be safe from physical assault by the school principal? 2) Do public school employees have the right NOT to be screamed at by the assistant principal? 3)Do African American staff have the right to expect that the FEDERAL laws that (supposedly) protect them from discrimination will be enforced in Florida’s public schools? 4) Do parents have a right to expect that their children will not be physically assaulted by the school principal? 5) When can the serfs/staff of NKC expect MDCPS highly touted “Zero tolerance for bullying” to be implemented for the employees of MDCPS?

Respectfully,

Bill Detzner

Bill Detzner 7722 S.W. 99 St. Miami, Fl. 33156 billdetzner@bellsouth.net

Dear Governor DeSantis, Fl. Education Commissioner Corcoran, Superintendent Carvalho, 9 MDCPS School Board members, and Ms. Hernandez Mats,

Hello. My name is Bill Detzner. For the fifth straight year, I am writing a letter asking that at the end of the school year, Dr. Tracy Roos and Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) be removed as the Neva King Cooper School (NKC) administrators and replaced with the two former NKC school administrators, Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol. As I will refer frequently in this letter to incidents that I have described in detail in my blog, that blog can be accessed at mdcpsallegations.com

I want to very strongly emphasize that if Superintendent Carvalho is allowed to merely remove the present two NKC administrators and replace them with different administrators of his choosing, Mr. Carvalho’s new hand picked administrators may choose to continue the seven (7) year on-going rape of NKC, while continuing to expose the profoundly mentally handicapped (PMH) children to the danger of choking to death on their food at mealtimes, continuing to expose the severely retarded children of NKC to alleged physical assaults at the hands of the school principal, and continuing to punish the NKC staff for their (supposedly) legally protected decision to attempt to convert from a public school to a charter school. There are many reasons why Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol are the best choices to replace the present NKC administrators. First, both of these gentlemen had been the NKC administrators for many years prior to their illegal removal. Profoundly Mentally Handicapped children have characteristics unique to them alone. An administrator who has not worked previously with this unique population would need a few years just to reach the level of competence that Dr. Fernandez and Mr. Cristobol already have. Dr. Fernandez and Mr. Cristobol can hit the ground running, where another principal will need a minimum of 2-3 years to reach the level these two previous NKC administrators already have. Also, both Dr. Fernandez and Mr. Cristobol have achieved some of the highest ratings in MDCPS in the annual staff satisfaction surveys among both staff and parents. Dr. Fernandez and Mr. Cristobol have also cultivated deep ties among businesses and stakeholders in the city of Homestead, where NKC is located. I say this because for years, every spring, under the leadership of Dr. Fernandez and Mr. Cristobol, NKC hosted a golf tournament, which raised thousands of dollars that were used to buy physical therapy equipment for our students. These two fine administrators also cultivated a warm relationship between NKC and the Ryder Corporation, a Fortune Five Hundred corporation. That relationship continues to this day. At one point, the Ryder Corporation gave a six figure check to NKC to install Smart Boards in every classroom in the school. At one point, Dr. Fernandez was lauded as the most effective administrator in MDCPS. Finally, and most importantly, returning Dr. Fernandez and Mr. Cristobol to their posts as NKC administrators would send a clear and unmistakable signal that MDCPS is FINALLY ending the SEVEN YEAR punishment imposed on NKC for engaging in the (supposedly) legally protected activity of exploring conversion from a public school to a charter school. (as documented in DOAH 13-1492) As Superintendent Carvalho and /or the Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) school board members are extremely unlikely to take the action of removing the present NKC administrators and replacing them with Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol,, I am asking that Governor DeSantis and/or Commissioner Corcoran use their authority to order Superintendent Carvalho to take this action.

As there is at this point in time a 2 month gap between the end of the 2018-2019 school year and the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, and as the 2019 legislative session has ended, the governor has a great deal of free time to attend to this pressing and urgent problem. If the Governor and or Commisioner Corcoran choose to do little or nothing at a time when the Governor’s chief duty seems to be cutting ribbons at various locations, the voters will assume the Governor has a reckless and negligent disregard for the safety of Florida’s most vulnerable citizens, severely mentally handicapped children.

Governor DeSantis, consider the following scenario. Two women stand accused of committing a murder. The state of Florida decides to allow these women to conduct the investigation of their guilt or innocence. If the two women find themselves guilty, they face substancial penalties. These two women have a clear conflict of interest, so naturally, they are going to find themselves not guilty, no matter how damming the evidence against them is. Any witnesses against these two women would be extremely reluctant to truthfully testify against these two women, knowing a not guilty verdict was preordained, and knowing that the two women would then be free to retaliate against witnesses at the conclusion of the sham “trial.” Any witnesses who did testify at this sham “trial” would have a very strong motivation to be less than truthful, or to be completely untruthful, just to protect themselves from retaliation. (Perhaps this was the thinking of both Mrs. Mary Surca and Dr. Diana Morales when the Office of the Inspector General dropped the ball and allowed Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) to investigate itself and question these two women) Only a madman or a very negligent person wouls allow a party accused of wrongdoing to investigate itself. Astonishingly, that is what the state of Florida did when it allowed MDCPS to investigate itself concerning alleged cheating on the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA) by Dr. Roos and Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer). To quote from my May1,2019 letter to you “When I received the OIG email announcing that my claim had been investigated, found to be without merit, and dismissed, I phoned the OIG office and asked who conducted the investigation. The OIG person asked for my OIG correspondence number. When I gave him/her that number, he/she told me that MDCPS had been allowed to conduct the investigation , and that the OIG accepted the results of that investigation, wholly and without question…The second issue I am hoping you [Governor DeSantis] will ask the OIG about is the dispute as to whether or not FAA scores at NKC showed a dramatic Improvement when Dr. Alberto Fernandez ceased to be the NKC administrator, and Dr. Roos took over as the NKC principal. To quote from the email I received from OIG: ” The OIG also analyzed the test scores from 2013-2018and found the scores were anything but astonishingly high, let alone high.” When Dr. Alberto Fernandez was the NKC pribcipal, the students were tested for a period of many years on the FAA. Never once during that time was the staff ever offered a bonus due to high scores on the FAA. Diring two of the three years I worked at NKC under Dr. Roos, the staff won a financial bonus based on our school’s performance on the FAA. I want to emphasize that those bonuses are awarded SOLELY on the basis of outstanding student performance on this test. Governor DeSantis, can you please ask the OIC why the NKC staff was awarded bonuses for two years if a dramatic improvement in FAA scores did not occur once Dr. Roos and Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) became the NKC administrators?”

Governor, a person who allowed such a sham “investigation” in this hypothetical murder trial would be rightly viewed as NOT wanting to learn the truth of the matter, and merely attempting to evade responsibility when further travesties of justice by these criminals occur in the future. At the conclusion of this sham “trial” when these two criminals were awarded their inevitable not guilty verdicts and released to continue their crimes, the highly negligent person who allowed this travesty to occur could shrug his shoulders and say, “Isn’t it awful? However, I am NOT to blame, because a “trial” was held, and the defendants were found not guilty.” Governor De Santis, the public would rightly conclude that such an official could care less about the public’s right to safety from harm by criminals. The public would rightly assume that the SOLE concern of the negligent person who allowed this travesty of justice to occur was to evade responsibility for being blamed for failing to take action to protect the public from the harm caused by these criminals, while giving himself the excuse of pretending to take action on behalf of the public. Governor, this is what many politicians do, and it is the reason the public has very little trust or respect for politicians. Governor DeSantis, with all due respect, this is what YOU appear to have done with regard to the sham “investigation” of cheating on the FAA by the two NKC administrators.

Governor DeSantis, I am going to ask you a very blunt question. If one or more of the severely mentally retarded children of NKC chokes to death on his/her food ON YOUR WATCH AS FLORIDA’S GOVERNOR, are you ok with that, provided you will not be held accountable, as your OIG held a sham “investigation” of wrongdoing by NKC administrators? Do you think Florida voters will buy that argument in the next gubernatorial election? As you are well aware, Dr. Roos has also allegedly physically assaulted an African American severely mentally retarded NKC student and a social worker. You are also well aware that Dr. Roos has allegedly confessed to suffering from an Obsesive Compulsive Disorder, and gives the appearance of having very poor control of her ability to control her destructive and antisocial actions such as alleged uncontrollable and prolonged crying jags she has had in front of staff. Governor DeSantis, if Dr. Roos again alleged physically assaults one or more staff members, or (may God forbid it) another severely mentally handicapped child, (in front of three witnesses, two of whom filed a formal report of this incident) who cannot speak to tell what happened to him/her, and who may be unable to defend himself/ herself in any way, are you ok with that, provided you will not be held accountable,as your OIG held a sham “investigation” of wrongdoing by NKC administrators on the FAA achievement test? In my blog, I described in great detail how Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) allegedly filed potentially career ending charges against Mr. Rick Massa for his alleged cheating on the FAA test. She did so, knowing the charges were false, and that no cheating had occurred. She then allegedly perjured herself in her deposition in Mr. Massa’s resulting lawsuit. (If an investigative body INDEPENDENT OF MDCPS conducts an investigation of this, I can provide the name of a person who can verify that Mrs. Fernandez knowingly and willfully filed false charges of cheating by Mr. Massa on the FAA.) Governor DeSantis, if Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) allegedly knowingly and willfully files false potentially career ending charges against one or more additional NKC staff members in the future, are you ok with this, provided you will not be held accountable, as your OIG held a sham “investigation” of wrongdoing by NKC administrators on the FAA achievement test?

A person may think that the danger of a child choking to death on his/her food while at school is extremely remote. In a school for normal children, this is indeed the case. (Although at my older brother’s Catholic all boys high school, a young man came within seconds of suffering permanent and irreversible brain damage when he accepted a dare and a bet that he could eat an entire hamburger, including the bun in one bite,) Due to both physical and cognitive disabilities, the chance of a severely mentally retarded child choking to death on his/her food are FAR, FAR greater than they are for a normal child. Indeed, some of our students have suffered this tragic fate in the group homes they reside in. While it is difficult to put an exact number on how much more at risk the student population of our school for severely retarded children is for choking to death on their food, as opposed to a normal child choking to death on his/her food, I would estimate that it is reasonable to say a severely retarded child is a thousand times more likely to choke to death on his/her food than a normal child is. While choking incidents are not a daily occurrence at NKC, they are not uncommon events either. In ANY choking incident, the sooner intervention occurs, the greater the chances of a happy outcome. In my blog, I described in great detail a choking incident that occurred in Mr. Rick Massa’s class. (Mr. Massa was a very strong supporter of converting NKC from a public school to a charter school). Although the child in question was so prone to choking incidents that his choking danger was listed in his Individual Education Plan (IEP), and although Mr. Massa took immediate and highly appropriate action that resulted in the child promptly ejecting the food he was choking on without losing consciousness, and promptly went back to eating his lunch, Dr. Roos nevertheless filed potentially career ending charges against Mr. Massa for negligence! As the entire staff gathers together in the cafeteria at mealtimes to feed the students, the entire staff witnessed that although Mr. Massa acted in a highly appropriate and indeed a heroic manner, the NKC principal attempted to have Mr. Massa terminated. (I strongly urge readers of this letter to read about this event in my blog, as Dr. Roos went to ASTONISHING lengths to have Mr. Massa terminated for saving a child’s life) As a result of what the rest of the staff witnessed in the cafeteria that day, the staff have a well founded fear that if a child in their class begins to choke on his/her food, even if the choking incident is not the fault of the staff member, and even if the staff member immediately intervenes and the child makes a complete recovery, Dr. Roos and/or Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) may use that as an opportunity to file career ending charges against the staff member. For that reason if a choking incident occurs, a staff member, fearing his/her job is on the line, may hesitate for30 seconds to a minute before summoning help from our on-site nurses, hoping the child spontaneously coughs up the food. That 30 second to one minute delay can literally mean the difference between life and death for a Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) child. (Sometimes it takes 2-3 minutes, or more to dislodge food that is deeply lodged in a person’s throat. I’ll discuss that in more depth later on.) Superintendent Carvalho has known about this danger for FOUR YEARS and done NOTHING to eliminate this easily preventable tragedy from happening. At NKC, BOTH NKC administrators appear to have made a decision to use choking incidents as a weapon to file potentially career ending charges against staff one or both administrators do not like.

Every meal that is served at NKC has the potential to result in a child choking to death on his/her food. For this reason, NKC staff monitor children very closely at mealtimes The ideal goal for staff is to maintain eye contact with students at all times during mealtimes. Regrettably, this cannot be done. Some of our students do not have the ability to feed themselves and need to be spoon fed by the staff. Staff do a visual check of their class after every spoonful of food they feed to such a child. Often classes have more than one child who needs to be spoon fed by the staff.There are additional distractions. Some students experience violent and prolonged seizures. These seizures come with no warning. If a child experiences a seizure during mealtime, the teacher will monitor the child having a seizure while the teacher assistant continues to monitor the rest of the class. If two children from the same classroom experience a seizure at nearly the same time ( an infrequent but occasionally occurring event) the teacher montors one student, while the teacher assistant monitors the other student. This leaves the remainder of the class unattended until a schoolsite nurse arrives. Other staff will attempt to monitor these unattended students as they feed and monitor the students of their own class until a school nurse arrives. NKC students have a very low frustration threshold. When they feel overwhelmed, they attempt to physically harm either themselves or their peers. If a child has an emotional meltdown, he/she may begin to beat his/her head against the nearest object, or beat his/her face with his/her fists. or the child may physically assault a peer Here again, the teaher or the teacher assistant will immediately intervene to prevent the child from physically harming either himself/herself, or a peer. This again results in a temporary diminished capacity to monitor the rest of the class. Finally, even though mealtimes are times of maximum danger for PMH students, astonishingly, both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) will occasionally use mealtimes to summon staff to the office for trivial matters that could have easily been delayed for a more appropriate time. Both NKC administrators expect and receive extremely meek, servile, and defferential treatment from staff. Although I would have liked to have asked the NKC administrators to not summon me during mealtimes except in an emergency, making this request might have resulted in me receiving a letter of reprimand for isubordination! (Are you listening, Ms. Hernandez Mats?) Every time either Dr. Roos or Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) did this to me, I would be both frantic with worry the entire time my class had only my teaching assistant to watch them during mealtime, and seething with rage that an NKC administrator saw fit to put my class at risk for a trivial matter that could have easily waited for a more opportune time. Clearly, the welfare of NKC students was not and is not a priority for the present NKC administrators.

The smartest PMH students are the ones most at risk for choking to death on their food. They are smart enough to realize that a momentary lapse on the teacher’s attention is an opportunity for them to be sneaky and stuff ENORMOUS amounts of food into their mouths. Regrettably, they do not have the cognitive capacity to understand that their actions have consequences (i.e. cause and effect), and they do not ubderstand that quickly stuffing vast quantities of food into their mouths will cause them to choke. They will not grasp this concept, even if it is repeatedly explained to them. A student who experienced enormous distress from choking on his/her food will repeat that behavior in the future if given the opportunity because the child does not understand the adverse consequences of his/her actions.. A person may think that ending a choking incident can be done quickly and easily. One merely administers the Heinlich Maneuver, the person coughs up the food, and the danger has passed. This is true if the person is choking on only a small amount of food. However, if a person has stuffed vast quantities of food into his/her mouth, that food will become deeply lodged in a person’s airways, and need to be removed by hand. This process can take 2-3 minutes, or longer. In my blog, I described an incident where an NKC student had attempted to swallow an entire pancake in one bite and lost consciousness. It took Mr. Frank Lozada, an NKC teacher who was also a fully trained Fire Academy graduate who rode ambulances during the weekend between 2-3 minutes to clear this child’s breathing passages. Thus, an NKC staff person, fearing his/her job is at stake if one of his/her students begins to choke on their food may hesitate for 30 seconds to a minute before summoning help from our on site nursing staff. That thirty second to one minute delay can literally mean the difference between life and death for an NKC student. If you have read my blog, you know that I have proposed 3 steps that would quickly and easily end this entirely preventable danger to the lives of PMH students. Those three steps are: 1) Replace Dr. Roos and Mrs Fernandez (Screamer) with former NKC administrators Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol 2) Have Superintendent Carvalho issue a memorandum to all NKC staff stating that in the future, NKC staff who properly execute their duties will not suffer adverse consequences. This memorandum will be meaningful only if Superintendent Carvalho chooses to honor his promise. 3) Reinstate the mandatory annual training in life saving techniques that all staff received when Dr. Fernandez and Mr. Cristobol were the NKC administrators. If you have read my blog, you know that for FOUR YEARS I have sent EIGHT unanswered certified letters to Superintendent Carvalho, BEGGING him to make these three changes (I have saved the eight signed and dated green receipt cards to prove he received my letters). Mr. Carvalho has declined to make ANY CHANGES AT ALL during this four year period.

A person may think that the fact that NKC has an on site nursing staff means that students who begin to choke on their food are at little or no risk of dying. This is untrue for two reasons. First, although the NKC nurses are deeply compassionate people who do an excellent job of both tube feeding the NKC students who need this service, and administering medication to students, they do not give the appearance of being trained in emergency life saving techniques, I say this because in the three emergencies where life literally hung in the balance that occurred during my time at NKC, the nurses just stood there and did nothing, because they did not know what to do. In all three instances, it was a teacher at NKC, Mr. Frank Lozada who saved the lives of the three people who nearly died at our school. Two of those incidents were choking incidents. The third incident was a staff member who suffered a massive heart attack and had no pulse and was not breathing. Regrettably, Mr. Lozada is one of the MANY,MANY staff who have left NKC due to the semmingly deliberately bullying, and abrasive personalities of both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer). The second reason the nursing staff of NKC appears to be of questionable competence is because that staff is in a constant state of flux. Again, due to the extremely abrasive personalities of both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer), nurses do not last long at NKC. At one point, Dr. Roos purged the entire NKC nursing staff en mass. It is possible that the NKC nursing staff is composed of nurses who have few other work options.

Both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez give the appearance of being openly and blatantly racist. I have given several examples of this in my blog. I will briefly describe them here once again. For many years, we had an African American custodian at NKC named Mr. Jerry Terry. Mr. Terry was a conscientious 30 year employee who had a spotless record. As I said before, both NKC administrators are extremely rude, abrasive, insulting, and they frequently shout at NKC staff. During one such heated exchange between Mr. Terry and Dr. Roos, in the heat of the moment, Mr. Terry said some things that he probably shouldn’t have said, and he was involuntarily transferred to another school. I do not know why the fact that Mr. Terry’s 30 year unblemished record prior to Dr. Roos arrival, coupled with the fact that Dr. Roos has also had major clashes with numerous other NKC employees did not raise some questions about Dr. Roos fitness to be a school principal. Mr. Terry’s nephew, Mr. Ray Morrison , also an African American, has been an NKC employee for over 20 years. Prior to Dr. Roos arrival, Mr. Morrison also had a spotless record. On at least two occasions, Mr. Morrison has been the victim of a prolonged SCREAMING jag by assistant principal Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) Although Mr. Morrison REPEATEDLY asked Mrs. Fernandez to both lower her voice and to speak in a respectful voice. Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) declined to do either one of these things. Mr. Morrison, remembering what had happened to his uncle, and fearing he was in danger of sinking down to the level of assistant principal Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer), announced he was leaving Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) office, and that he (Mr. Morrison) would be happy to resume the “conversation” when Mrs. Fernandez had regained control of her emotions and was willing to address Mr. Morrison in a professional, polite, and courteous manner.

To put things into perspective, I (Bill Detzner) have also been the victim of one of Mrs. Fernandez(Screamer) tirades. I have described it in detail in my blog. Her tirade went on for twenty (20) minutes! On four separate occasions, I asked Mrs Fernandez (Screamer) to lower her voice. The first time, she briefly lowered her voice. The other three times, she simply ignored me. I literally was not allwed to speak. Every time I attempted to speak, Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) simply shouted me down. I am an army veteran. At no time during my boot camp basic training did a drill sargeat scream at me for more than two or three minutes, and never as loudly or as disrespectfully as Mrs. Fernandez did. In my blog, I also mentioned that because I am Caucasion, I did not experience nearly as much venom as African Americans experience at the hands of both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer).

At the end of the school day, Mr. Morrison was summoned to a closed door meeting with Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer). If any of the readers of this letter think the purpose of that meeting was to offer Mr. Morrison an apology for Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) inexcusable behavior, and to assure Mr. Morrison that this inexcusable behavior would never occur again, you are a very naïve person. The purpose of that meeting was to inform Mr. Morrison that if he ever again excused himself from one of Screamer’s unprofessional screaming jags, he would suffer the same fate as his uncle.

One of the school secretaries is a woman named Ms. LaTanya Stephenson. She has been an NKC employee for over 20 years. She also has a spotless record. She is punctual, has excellent attendance, dresses very professionally, has excellent people skills and conducts herself at all times in a professional manner, and completes all of her duties in a timely and professional manner. Her computer skills are astonishing. When the school lead secretary retired, everybody just assumed that Mrs. Stephenson would get the promotion as the lead secretary. Unfortunately, Mrs. Stephenson appears to have one characteristic that seems to have disqualified her in Dr. Roos eyes. Mrs. Stephenson is an African American. Dr. Roos recruited a person from another school to become the new lead secretary of NKC.

I have described in great detail in my blog the incident involving Dr. Roos and two African American NKC employees. Those two employees are Mrs. Green and Mr. Aaron Jackson. Shortly after the murder of Mrs. Green’s daughter, Dr. Roos allegedly ordered Mr. Jackson, one of Mrs. Green’s good friends, to deliver Dr. Roos threat to have Mrs. Green involuntarily transferred to another school. When this action caused Dr. Roos to get into trouble, she (Dr.Roos) allegedly hastily summoned Mr. Jackson to her office for a closed door meeting and allegedly threatened Mr. Jackson with immediate job termination unless he immediately recanted his testimony saying Dr. Roos had ordered him to deliver Dr. Roos alleged threat to Mrs. Green. A few weeks after this event, which should have cost Dr. Roos her job, MDCPS saw fit to honor Dr. Roos by accepting her as a candidate for the most prestigious award a principal can earn. She became a candidate for the Principal of the Year Award. Although MDCPS promised to conduct a meeting with Ms. Green to discuss this incident, MDCPS cancelled this meeting twice, and the meeting was never held. Almost two years later, Mrs. Green is still waiting for MDCPS to address the abuse she suffered at the hands of Dr. Roos

As I described in my blog, a few months ago, Dr. Roos allegedly physically assaulted an NKC student. (Readers of this blog, if you like riddles, I have one for you. See if you can guess the race of the student Dr. Roos allegedly physically assaulted. I’ll give you a hint. The initials of this student’s race are A.A.) Yep, you readers are truly astute. This child is African American. Although MDCPS has a MANDATORY policy that a principal accused of physically assaulting a child be removed from campus until an investigation of that alleged incident is completed, (for the protection of the child) this was never done

As I described in my blog, MDCPS has an annual MANDATORY survey that EVERY employee is required to take. It is the annual staff satisfaction survey. Last year, the NKC administrators, possibly in an attempt to boost the phenomenally low scores they receive year after year on this survey, decided to illegally forbid teaching assistants from taking this survey. This meant that very few African Americans from NKC were allowed to take this survey.

Finally, as I mentioned in my blog, many of the African American Professionals refer to NKC as a “Plantation.”

Every day,The parents of NKC children are faced with a cruel choice.Their two choices are: 1) Send their children to school at NKCwhere the child faces the risk of possibly choking to death on his/her food, or exposing their child to the risk of allegedly being physically assaulted by Dr. Roos should she experience yet another emotional meltdown. 2) Keep the child out of school and have Child Protective Services forcibly remove the child from his/her home and placed in a foster home where the child runs the risk of being physically and/or sexually assaulted by an abusibe foster parent. There are no charter schools for PMH children in MDCPS, so these are the only two choices available to the parents of NKC children. Also, parents of NKC children are forced to pay the salary of a principal who has allegedly physically assaulted an utterly defenseless and speechless profoundly mentally handicapped child. This principal, along with assistant principal Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) , on a daily basis also allegedly exposes these children to an entirely preventable horrible death by choking on their food.

Governor DeSantis, you are a father. WHAT LEVEL OF RAGE WOULD YOU FEEL IF ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN WERE TO DIE A HORRIBLE AND CRUEL DEATH BY CHOKING ON HIS/HER FOOD AT SCHOOL? WHAT IF YOU KNEW THAT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL WAS FULLY AWARE OF THE SITUATION, COULD EASILY HAVE PREVENTED THAT SITUATION FROM HAPPENING, AND CHOSE TO DO NOTHING? (HINT: THINK MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL ) DO YOU THINK FLORIDA VOTERS WILL NOT TURN YOU OUT OF OFFICE IF YOU ALLOW A PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILD TO DIE A HORRIBLE,SENSELESS, AND EASILY PREVENTABLE CHOKING DEATH? If you choose to do nothing, the chance of a PMH child suffering this fate on your watch is nearly 100%. Governor, I am hoping you will read that last sentence over again as many times as you need to. The next few sentences are also very important. WHEN that happens (not if, but when), I am going to take my blog to the Florida Democratic Party. They have enough “pull” to get excerpts from my blog published in every major Florida newspaper, and you will suffer a “Michael Dukakis Moment” in the next election.

Perhaps the noble slogan of “Never Again” that has been popularized by Parkland High School students ought to be changed to “Again and Again!” If an NKC child chokes to death on his food, it will be for the same reason 17 people needlessly died at M.S.D. That reason is that bureaucrats, who could have prevented the tragedy, did nothing.

Governor DeSantis, on bended knee I am BEGGING you to reopen the investigation of the alleged cheating on the FAA by Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez. Only this time, I am asking that a REAL investigation be done. I am asking that either the Florida Bureau of Investigation or the Federal Bureau of Investigation examine the NKC answer sheets for all the years answer sheets were used after Dr. Roos became the NKC principal. I am asking that the examiners look for frequent erasure marks on the answer sheets I am asking that the investigators interview ALL of the people that I asked to be interviewed. These people include Dr. Roos, Mrs. Fernandez, Mrs. Surca, Dr. Morales, Mr. Adrian Sanchez (the former assistant principal of NKC), Mr. Rick Massa (although he is now retired, Mr. Massa has exprtessed his willingness to be interviewed), Mrs. Luz Morales, and Mrs. Julie Besherat. I am asking that if it is determined that Dr. Roos and/or Mrs. Fernandez are found to have cheated on the FAA that the penalties prescribed by law for this offense be imposed on them. Also, if it is determined that the MDCPS authorities who investigated this alleged offense are found to have engaged in a cover up, that the proper penalties be assigned to them as well. If a cover up by MDCPS occurred, would that give the Florida authorities legal grounds to conduct a district wide investigation of MDCPS? If so, a good place to start might be the eight chronically failing MDCPS who suddenly all received passing grades on the standard achievement test a few years. If Governor DeSantis finds that the profoundly mentally handicapped children of NKC are in danger, and if Superintendent Carvalho refuses to take appropriate steps to safeguard those children, I am hoping the governor will see fit to remove the two NKC administrators from their posts, and Superintendent Carvalho as well if this needs to be done.

Governor DeSantis, I am going to ask you a few questions that nobody knows the answers to. 1) What is the present level of student violence in MDCPS? Is the level of student violence in MDCPS increasing, decreasing, or remaining stable? Are the strategies MDCPS is currently using to attempt to lower the level of student violence working effectively? A few years back, the government required all school districts to submit a report showing the level of student violence in the school district. The problem was that no penalties were imposed for school districts that falsified their figures. The result was that Superintendent Carvalho submitted a report with figures so low that on paper, MDCPS had nearly the lowest levels of violence in the entire nation. The falsification was so blatant that MDCPS became the butt of many jokes. Some people say that had Superintendent Carvalho faced severe penalties for submitting a vastly underreported level of violence in MDCPS, his report would have been far more accurate.

A person who wanted to measure the effectiveness of instruction in various schools would probably consult (among other things) the results of the standardized tests given every year. These test results are an accurate measuring tool only if the test results are accurately reported. Obviously, if cheating on these tests were to occur, the test results would show the school to be operating at a higher level than it actually was. The pressure to achieve high scores on these tests is significant for teachers, school administrators, and school superintendents. Additionally, cash bonuses are awarded for high performance, while schools that turn in low test scores for several consecutive years face the risk of being closed. The temptation and the motivation to cheat on these tests is very high. Therefore, severe penalties are assigned to individuals who are caught cheating on this test. I believe those penalties include job termination and forfeiture of pension. On the surface, this seems like a severe enough penalty to keep cheating at very low levels. However, this is true ONLY if these severe penalties are actually ASSIGNED when cheating has been detected. If detected cheating is merely swept under the rug, word gets around that the rules are not being enforced, and the level of cheating will rise dramatically. There are a few factors that almost guarantee that the level of cheating on these tests in MDCPS will be at an unacceptably high level. One factor is that tenure has been eliminated. A teacher can now be terminated at will at the end of the school year. MDCPS has a slogan. That slogan is “See something, say something.” What that slogan means is that if an employee sees something illegal happening, he/she should report it. Again, given the fact that tenure no longer exists, an employee who sees something illegal (such as cheating on the high stakes achievement test) and is foolish enough to report it is likely to end up unemployed at the end of the school year (in addition to the cheating or other illegal activity being swept under the rug.) A more honest slogan would be “See something, say something, lose your job.” A second factor baked into the cake and resulting in higher levels of test cheating is that educators surrender their right to free speech when they become school board employees. School staff who observe illegal activities at their schools are FORBIDDEN BY LAW from reporting these activities to the media. These school employees are directed to report these infractions to the internal investigative bodies of their school districts who will then complete a fair and impartial investigation (wink, wink) School employees who are foolish enough to employ this strategy very quickly learn the meaning of the slogan, “See something, say something, lose your job.” This rule forbidding school employees from going to the media and becoming whistleblowers insures that nearly 100% of public school wrongdoing goes unpunished and unreported. On very rare occasions, a person such as myself, who has retired from the school system and is a VERY patient and persistent person will fight the endless stalling and lying by school bureaucrats and FINALLY get an “investigation” by the OIG. As happened to me, the OIG will allow the school district that stands accused to conduct its own “investigation” into the matter and accept the results of that “investigation” wholly and completely. Thus, with a straight face, the OIG told me that the “investigation” did NOT show any kind of significant gain in FAA scores at NKC, even though the staff were awarded bonuses (for the first time ever) after Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez became the NKC administrators.These bonuses are awarded ONLY for outstanding achievement on the FAA. Governor DeSantis, if somebody told you that it was simultaneously snowing a blizzard while the temperature was well above 100 degrees, would you believe them? For this reason, I am again asking you to reopen the investigation of possible cheating on the FAA by NKC administrators. If cheating on the high stakes achievement test is punished, word will quickly get around, and this test will become an accurate tool for measuring the effectiveness of instruction. If “smoke and mirrors” is all a governor was interested in, that governor would allow cheating to be swept under the rug, and “accountability” would become a meaningless joke. In an era where American students are competing with students from around the globe, Florida cannot afford the luxury of lousy schools. Governor DeSantis, my hope is that educational reform is truly a priority for you.

A few years ago, Superintendent Carvalho became a candidate to become the second most powerful person in the US. Federal Department of Education. This is a very daunting and exhaustive process, as a candidate is put under a microscope, and his/her career is very closely examined. A person does not submit to this grueling process unless he/she is deeply committed to getting the job. When Mr. Carvalho had completed the entire process, he had a very curious epiphany and realized he didn’t want the job after all, because he realized he just couldn’t be away from the school children of MDCPS. While this may indeed be the reason Mr. Carvalho took himself out of consideration after completing the entire exhaustive process, another possibility might be that after vetting Mr. Carvalho, the examiners discovered Mr. Carvalho had more skeletons in his closet than there are in a cemetery, and allowed Mr. Carvalho to make this face saving statement. An audit of MDCPS might turn up some very interesting facts about the way Mr. Carvalho conducts the affairs of the school district.

It is ironic and sad that the students of NKC, who played no part whatsoever in the torpedoed NKC conversion attempt are the ones paying the heaviest price for NKC’s (supposedly) legally protected right to attempt to convert from a public school to a charter school. Perhaps this is Superintendent Carvalho’s punishment for the parents who enthusiastically supported NKC’s aborted conversion attempt. Perhaps Superintendent Carvalho is attempting to send a warning message to the parents of any other MDCPS who are thinking about exercising their (supposedly) legally protected right to explore conversion to a charter school

I am reserving my harshest criticism for the Florida legislators who passed a “law” forbidding retaliation against public school employees who attempt to convert to a charter school, yet provide NO PENALTIES WHATSOEVER for superintendents who break that law. Imagine what would happen if a “law” was passed that outlawed robbing banks, but provided no penalties whatsoever for those who break this law! It wouldn’t be long before bank robbers became so brazen that they didn’t even bother to hide their identities when breaking this “law”. They would soon be posting their lawbreaking activities on You Tube. If any of the readers of this letter take the time to read DOAH 13-1492, you will be amazed by both the fact that MDCPS broke every law on the books when they illegally smashed NKC’s conversion attempt to a charter school, and that they made no attempt whatsoever to disguise their numerous illegal actions. Given the fact that there are no penalties for breaking this “law”, there is no point in even trying to hide that law breaking. The staff of NKC has been put through hell for seven years . If you have read my blog, what has happened to NKC for the last 7 years can only be described as a rape. For this reason, I am asking Governor DeSantis, Commisioner Corcoran, and the Florida legislature to either totally repeal this “law” giving public schools the right to convert to charter schools or to put some SUBSTANCIAL penalties in for superintendents who violate this law.

Governor DeSantis, I have two questionsd for you. DO PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE FROM PHYSICAL ASSAULT AT THE HANDS OF THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL? DO THE PARENTS OF PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE THEIR CHILD SPARED A VIOLENT AND HORRIBLE CHOKING DEATH?

Commisioner Corcoran, I am asking that you bring this letter toGovernor DeSantis attention at your earliest convenience. Superitendent Carvalho, I am asking that you remove Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez from their posts and replace them with Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol. I am asking the nine school board members to write a letter to Mr. Carvalho asking him to immediately remove both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez from their posts as the NKC administrators and replace them with Dr. Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol. If Mr. Carvalho declines to do this and/or if you feel Mr. Carvalho is no longer fit to serve as the MDCPS superintendent, I am asking you to write a letter to Goernor SeSantis asking the Governor to relieve Mr. Carvalho of his duties. Ms Hernandez Mats, I am asking you to write a letter to Mr. Carvalho, asking that Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez be removed as the NKC administrators and replaced with Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol.

I want to disclose a few things about myself before I close this letter. Both my wife and I are retired teachers of NKC. My wife was both a certified music therapist and the NKC music teacher, and I was an NKC classroom teacher for the majority of my career. career. As my wife and I have no children of our own, we have become very protective of the children of NKC. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am like a dog with a bone. As a retired man, I have unlimited amounts of time and energy to advocate for PMH children. This letter will be posted on my blog, along with every other letter I have sent to you.

Sincerely,

Bill Detzner

Bill Detzner 7722 S.W. 99 St. Miami, FL 33156 billdetzner@bellsouth.net

Dear Governor DeSantis, the Florida Commissioner of Education, and the Office of the Inspector General,

Imagine the following scenario. A man stands accused of murder. The police ask the suspect if he committed the murder. The suspect denies committing the crime. The police then summon the murder victim’s family and tell the astonished family that since the suspect has denied committing the crime, the police have decided to drop all charges against the suspect and close the case. That is pretty much what happened to me when I appealed to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to investigate alleged cheating on the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA) by the two administrators of Neva King Cooper School (NKC)

To refresh your memory, my name is Bill Detzner. My blog is mdcpsallegations.com, and I wrote you a letter in December 2018 detailing a long list of alleged illegal activities done by NKC principal Dr. Tracy Roos and assistant principal Mrs. Alicia Fernandez. (Screamer) . NKC is a school exclusively for Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) students. My OIG correspondence number is 2019020022.

Just a few of the many alleged incidents described in my blog are two alleged physical assaults by the school principal. One of these alleged assaults was against the school social worker. The other alleged physical assault was against a PMH student of the school! Two Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) bus drivers who observed this event filed formal charges against Dr. Roos. An African American who is a 30 year employee of MDCPS allegedly also witnessed this alleged incident but is too terrified of retaliation by MDCPS to testify as to what he/she observed.

In my blog, I also mentioned an alleged confession by the principal to me that she (Dr. Roos) suffers from an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. (I am using the word alleged even though I personally heard Dr. Roos make this statement to me.) In my blog I also mentioned many overtly racist actions (including allegedly forbidding the majority of African American employees from participating in the annual MANDATORY staff satisfaction survey)allegedly taken by both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) against the African American staff of NKC.

I also cautioned that there is a constant danger of PMH children suffering a horrible and easily preventable death from choking to death on their food at mealtimes, due to what appears to be a decision by the 2 administrators to use the choking incidents that occur at NKC as a weapon to get rid of teachers that one or both of the two administrators at NKC do not like. I describe this in great detail in my blog (mdcpsallegations.com) In my blog, I have also described that Dr. Roos gives the appearance of becoming increasingly emotionally unstable (i.e. at least two alleged uncontrollable crying jags in front of the school staff). Dr. Roos behavior gives the appearance of becoming increasingly erratic and irrational.

Governor DeSantis, if Dr. Roos has yet another alleged emotional meltdown , snaps, and there is yet another allegation of Dr. Roos physically assaulting yet another staff member , or worse yet, another PMH student who literally cannot defend himself/herself or speak to tell what Dr. Roos has allegedly done to him/her, are you ok with the fact that it happened on your watch, and that you were fully appraised of the situation? I am again asking the question that I asked in my December 2018 letter that none of the three of you have answered. DOES A SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILD HAVE A RIGHT TO BE SAFE FROM PHYSICAL ASSAULT AT THE HANDS OF A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL?

Every day, the parents of NKC children are faced with a cruel choice. Their two choices are: 1) Send their child to school at NKC where the child faces the risk of possibly choking to death on his/her food, or facing the risk of allegedly being physically assaulted by Dr. Roos should she experience yet another emotional meltdown. 2) Keep the child out of school and have child protective services forcibly remove the child from his/her home and placed in a foster home where the child runs the risk of being physically and/or sexually assaulted by an abusive foster parent. There are no charter schools for PMH children in MDCPS, so these are the only two choices available to the parents of NKC children. Also, parents of NKC children are forced to pay the salary of a principal who has allegedly physically assaulted an utterly defenseless and speechless PMH child. This principal, on a daily basis also allegedly exposes these children to an entirely preventable horrible death by choking on their food.

In response to my December2018 letter to you, the OIG sent me a letter asking for the names of people who could testify as to possible cheating on the FAA by the two NKC administrators. In my February 26,2019 letter to the OIG, I listed SIX people (in addition to the two NKC administrators) who I felt could shed some light on possible cheating on the FAA. To my astonishment and dismay, the 4 most important people on that list were never interviewed. In the order of the importance of their testimony, those 4 people who were NOT interviewed are 1) former assistant NKC principal Mr. Adrian Sanchez, 2) Mr. Rick Massa, 3) Ms. Luz Morales, and 4) Ms. Julie Besherat. Even more shocking, even though I warned you in my December 2018 letter that MDCPS is an extremely corrupt school district, and even though MDCPS has a clear conflict of interest in that the district will look very bad and face possible sanctions if it submits a report admitting the two NKC administrators cheated on the FAA, the OIG foolishly allowed MDCPS to investigate itself , even though I BEGGED the OIG to appoint an independent agency such as the Florida Bureau of Investigation, or the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct the investigation. Not surprisingly, on April 29, 2019, I received an email announcing that MDCPS had cleared itself of all wrongdoing, and the OIG therefore considers the case closed. Hence my analogy to the murder suspect who is cleared of all charges simply because he declares his innocence.

Governor DeSantis, can you please ask the OIG to clarify two unresolved issues regarding this recently completed investigation. The first issue is whether the OIG conducted the investigation independently, or whether it allowed MDCPS to investigate itself, and then accepted the results of MDCPS report wholly and without question. When I received the OIG email announcing that my claim had been investigated, found to be without merit, and dismissed, I phoned the OIG office and asked who conducted the investigation. The OIG person asked for my OIG correspondence number. When I gave her that number, she told me that MDCPS had been allowed to conduct the investigation, and that the OIG accepted the results of that investigation wholly and without question. When I protested to the OIG about this, they (the OIG) insisted the investigation was done solely by the OIG, and not by MDCPS The second issue I am hoping you will ask the OIG about is the dispute as to whether or not FAA scores at NKC showed a dramatic improvement when Dr. Alberto Fernandez ceased to be the NKC administrator, and Dr. Roos took over as the NKC principal. To quote from the email I received from OIG: “The OIG also analyzed the test scores from 2013-2018 and found the scores were anything but astonishingly high, let alone high.” When Dr. Alberto Fernandez was the KNC principal, the students were tested for a period of many years on the FAA. Never once during that time was the staff ever offered a bonus due to high scores on the FAA. During two of the three years I worked at NKC under Dr. Roos, the staff won a financial bonus based on our school’s performance on the FAA. I want to emphasize that those bonuses are awarded SOLEY on the basis of outstanding student performance on this test. Governor DeSantis, can you please ask the OIC why the NKC staff was awarded bonuses for two years if a dramatic improvement in FAA scores did not occur once Dr. Roos and Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) became the NKC administrators?

Governor DeSantis, at BEST, this sham “investigation” by your OIG seems very slipshod and sloppy. At its worst, it gives the appearance of being an attempt to whitewash the on-going 7 year rape of NKC and give yourself plausible deniability of responsibility if Dr. Roos or Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) commits one or more felony offenses such as allegedly physically assaulting a PMH child or cheating on the FAA. Governor DeSantis, if this happens, will you attempt to hide your negligence by claiming that you conducted a (lame) investigation, and your OIG found the charges to be without merit?

As I stated in my December 2018 letter to you, I am a political atheist. Governor DeSantis, if one or more NKC children chokes to death on his or her food, or is allegedly physically assaulted, I will move Heaven and Earth to get it into the papers that you were fully appraised of the events in my blog and did nothing to stop an entirely preventable tragedy.

The shooting of 34 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglass (17 of them fatally) has been called the most easily preventable school shooting ever. Nicolas Cruz gave clear and unmistakable warnings of his murderous intentions. The political repercussions of that event are still being felt. I am sure you will agree that it is much easier to be proactive and prevent a school tragedy than it is to deal with the political repercussions of failing to take appropriate action. Both Dr. Tracy Roos and Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) give the appearance of being ticking time bombs. Governor DeSantis, you won the governors race by a slim margin. People feel ENORMOUSLY protective of severely mentally retarded children. If (may God forbid it) an entirely preventable tragedy happens at NKC, how do you think that will effect your poll numbers in the next election? If you remember the Presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Governor Michael Dukakis, the governor had what appeared to be an insurmountable lead over Mr. Bush. Then the press was given the story of Willie Horton and it was all over for the Governor’s Presidential ambitions. Governor DeSantis, I am hoping you are smart enough not to let NKC become your “Willie Horton moment.”

Governor DeSantis, on bended knee I am literally BEGGING you to reopen the investigation into possible cheating on the FAA by the two NKC administrators . I am BEGGING you to appoint an agency independent of MDCPS (such as the Florida Bureau of Investigation, or the Federal Bureau of Investigation)to do this investigation. I am BEGGING you to interview ALL of the people I mentioned in my February 26, 2019 letter to the OIG. I am BEGGING you to examine all FAA answer sheets (looking for frequent reassure marks) from the time Dr. Roos became the NKC principal to the present, and if one or both NKC administrators are found to be guilty of cheating on the FAA, I am BEGGING you to assign a penalty commensurate with the offense committed including but not limited to permanent forfeiture of BOTH Florida teaching licenses and pensions. Also, if the investigation determines that MDCPS officials willfully falsified their recent investigation, penalties commensurate with those violations need to be assigned.

If the governor sees fit to recommend that the two previous NKC administrators who were illegally removed in case DOAH 13-1492 (Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol) are restored to their posts, I think that would be very helpful towards ending the 7 year crisis at NKC.

Commissioner Corcoran and Mr. Rawls, perhaps I am wrong here, but if Governor DeSantis receives a great deal of negative publicity because the two of you failed to take actions that could have prevented that negative publicity to the Governor, there is a possibility that the Governor may become very unhappy with the two of you.

I want to disclose a few things about myself before I close this letter. Both my wife and I are retired teachers of NKC. My wife was both a certified music therapist and the NKC music teacher, and I was an NKC classroom teacher for 25 years. As my wife and I have no children of our own, we have become very protective of the children of NKC. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am like a dog with a bone. As a retired man, I have unlimited amounts of time and energy to advocate for PMH children. Governor DeSantis, if the children of NKC continue to be exposed to entirely preventable danger at the hand of Dr. Roos and Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer), I will pay a visit to the Florida Democratic Party headquarters and every Florida media organization that I can think of to present my case. If, on the other hand, you choose to safeguard and protect the PMH children of NKC, I will simply disappear, never to be heard from again. (which is what I would prefer to do.)

This letter will be posted on my blog, along with all the previous communication I have had with you.

Respectfully, Bill Detzner

Bill Detzner 7722 SW 99 St. Miami, FL 33156 billdetzner@bellsouth.net 305-279-5488

2 November 2018

Hello 9 School Board Members, Ms. Hernandez Mats and Mr. Carvalho.

My name is Bill Detzner. I have sent many unanswered certified letters to all of you. I sent 7 of those letters to Ms. Hernandez Mats, 6 to Mr. Carvalho, 5 to Mr. Feldman, 3 to Mr. Gallon, and 1 to every other school board member. The only change in behavior I have seen from Neva King Cooper School (NKC) principal Dr. Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez as a result of those letters is a dramatic change for the WORSE in the treatment of both NKC staff and students. I am sending you this latest letter ONLY so you will not be able to bleat that you didn’t know of the terrible things that continue to happen at NKC.

The latest catastrophe at NKC is that principal Dr. Roos allegedly physically assaulted a Severely Mentally Retarded (SMR) African American boy about a week and a half ago. I discussed this at great length in my blog: mdcpsallegations.com. You will find a description in my 10/31/2018 entry (“Fourth Email To PTA President For MDCPS Nancy Lawther.”) As usual, the MDCPS investigative people gave the appearance of wanting solely to intimidate witnesses into silence and covering this up. For example, the mother of the alleged physically abused child was LIVID and threatened to get a lawyer and go to the NAACP. She very quickly went completely silent. Is it possible that Dr. Roos and/or MDCPS phoned this woman and threatened to have the child removed from his home and put into a foster home unless the woman agreed to stop advertising uncomfortable facts about NKC? If so, this would not be the first time Dr. Roos has allegedly used this threat to silence a parent who had incriminating evidence against her. For the record, there is a 30- year MDCPS employee at NKC (he/she has also been a UTD member for over 30 years) who witnessed Dr. Roos allegedly physically abusing this SMR child. This person is too frightened to tell what he/she observed. The allegedly dirty/corrupt MDCPS police officer who conducted the sham “investigation” of this latest incident is partly responsible for the fear of this witness. This witness is also intimidated by the fact that Dr. Roos, despite being accused of physically abusing a SMR child, remains on campus as the NKC principal.

During the 2011-2012 school year, NKC attempted to exercise its (supposedly) legally protected right to explore converting from a public school to a charter school. The law stipulates that the superintendent cannot interfere with this process. Godfather Al Carvalho was desperate. He needed an excuse to very quickly smash this attempt, lest many other MDCPS schools follow NKC’s lead and also convert to charter schools. The allure would have been difficult to resist. As a result of no longer having to support the obscenely overstaffed downtown bureaucracy, NKC would no longer have its step raises denied, year after year. We would have been able to grant ourselves handsome raises every year and have MUCH greater freedom in choosing our own curriculum, plus we would have had enormous cash surpluses at the end of every school year. The Godfather rightly feared that these three enormous benefits would cause a stampede of schools converting to charter schools, putting the Godfather (and the school board, and the UTD president) out of a job.   The Godfather’s excuse for smashing the conversion attempt was that he feared the 2 NKC administrators were attempting to INTIMIDATE staff into supporting the conversion process. Yet after the 2 administrators were illegally permanently removed from the NKC campus, and staff (knowing these 2 administrators would never again return to NKC) were asked how many of them felt intimidated by the previous NKC administrators, NOT A SINGLE STAFF PERSON SAID THEY HAD BEEN INTIMIDATED BY THE TWO EXILED ADMINISTRATORS. Given the HORRENDOUS amount of what appears to be retaliation the NKC staff have suffered in the ensuing 6 years, it seems very hypocritical of MDCPS to say they were concerned about alleged intimidation of the NKC staff by the school site administrators. (Later in this letter, I will give examples of how the illegal 6- year retaliation against the NKC staff violates MDCPS (supposed) “zero tolerance for bullying.” Godfather Carvalho realized that it was not enough to smash the NKC conversion attempt. His goal (which he has achieved) was to make the retaliation against NKC so brutal and so prolonged that no school in MDCPS would ever again even consider converting to a charter school

On many occasions I have referred to MDCPS not as a school district, but as a criminal enterprise, with Al Carvalho as the Godfather, (and Ms. Hernandez Mats as one of the Godfathers most senior and trusted lieutenants, thug, and henchwoman.) A criminal enterprise cannot work without a climate of intense fear. Victims will not submit to the Godfather’s rule unless they fear the consequences of not doing so. Intimidation cannot be accomplished without breaking numerous laws. The Godfather does not want to go to prison for breaking laws, so he has his thugs do the dirty work for him. The understanding is that if the thugs get caught, they take sole responsibility and let the Godfather off the hook. If they are prosecuted, the Godfather will do everything in his power to intimidate witnesses, cover up the crime, obtain either no media coverage or favorable media coverage, and provide the finest legal help to try to beat the charges. If the thugs go to jail, their families will want for nothing during the entire jail sentence, provided the thugs keeps their mouths shut and continue to protect the Godfather. Once released from prison, the thugs are guaranteed a job with a generous salary. Once a thug has performed a certain number of dirty deeds for the Godfather, he becomes a “made” man, which means the Godfather will do ANYTHING in his power to protect his “made” men. The Godfather does this not out of gratitude, but out of necessity. The Godfather knows that nothing will dilute his power as quickly as an inability of the Godfather to protect his “made” men. If the Godfather’s thugs cannot depend on the Godfather to protect them from the consequences of their illegal activities, they will become risk averse. If the Godfather tells them to “whack” (i.e. murder) someone, the thugs, fearing a long prison sentence, may merely threaten the victim, putting the Godfather at risk. Readers of this letter, would it be fair and accurate to surmise that NKC principal Dr. Roos and NKC assistant principal Mrs. Alicia Fernandez are Godfather Al Carvalho’s “made” women at NKC? I am guessing that neither myself or any person reading this letter thinks the fact that these two thugs (I mean administrators) were assigned to NKC was a random event. I suspect that superintendents throughout the country assign certain thugs/administrators to a school that has caused them problems, with instructions to do ANYTHING (legal or otherwise) to rid those schools of employees the superintendent doesn’t like. The tacit understanding is that the superintendent will look the other way when the thug/administrator deliberately lies and/or frames a “problem” employee or does other things that are clearly illegal to get rid of “problem” employees. The tacit understanding is that if the rogue administrator gets caught, the administrator will take the fall and the superintendent will deny all knowledge and involvement. The superintendent will do everything in his/her power to protect the thug/administrator should he/she get caught. Even if the thug/administrator is found guilty, the thug/administrator will merely be shuffled off to a new post, often with both a promotion and a raise. The idea is to make the choice to be a thug/administrator as appealing as possible by minimizing the risk, minimizing the penalties if caught, and offering enormous rewards if the thug is successful in his/her dirty work. If the administrator gets rid of the employees the superintendent doesn’t like, he/she will get glowing evaluations, and fast tracked to positions and salaries the thug/administrator could never have dreamed of had he/she remained an honest administrator. Consider some of the illegal things “made” women Dr. Roos and Alicia Fernandez have done while cleaning house for Godfather Carvalho. 1) On the recommendation of Dr. Roos, Luz Morales was illegally terminated as a teacher (DOAH 145-2439). Ms. Morales was reinstated as a teacher and awarded 50% of the salary she was denied during the time she was illegally terminated. The case against Ms. Morales was so weak that MDCPS called NOT A SINGLE WITNESS to defend its inexcusable action. This cost the school district a great deal of money, but since it is the taxpayers money and not Godfather Carvalho’s money, it is of no concern to the Godfather. 2) Dr. Roos and Alicia Fernandez charged Mr. Massa with 7 potentially career ending charges. Mr. Massa’s lawsuit was settled out of court. Although I will never know the terms under which that lawsuit was settled, my guess is that this lawsuit cost MDCPS a great deal of taxpayer money. Alicia Fernandez allegedly knowingly and willfully falsely charged Mr. Massa with cheating on the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA). In her deposition in the resulting lawsuit, Mrs. Fernandez allegedly perjured herself. If an investigative body independent of MDCPS investigates this, I can provide the name of a person who can shed some light on this. 3) This crime was committed by Godfather Al Carvalho. In DOAH 13-1492, MDCPS illegally removed Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Henny Cristobol from their posts as NKC administrators after they exercised their (supposedly) legal right to explore conversion to a charter school. This crime (of Godfather Carvalho) cost the taxpayers $250,000. 4) Dr. Roos allegedly physically assaulted an NKC staff member. She (Dr. Roos) was not prosecuted for this 5) Dr, Roos allegedly recently physically assaulted a Severely Mentally Retarded child. MDCPS gives the appearance of doing everything in its power to sweep this under the carpet.

6) Just days after the murder of the daughter of an African American NKC employee, Dr. Roos allegedly ordered an African American custodian to deliver Dr. Roos threat to have this woman involuntarily transferred to another school. When it looked like Dr. Roos might suffer adverse consequences for this action, Dr. Roos allegedly threatened the African American custodian with immediate job termination unless he immediately recanted his story. In a REAL school district, these two HORRENDOUS actions would have cost Dr. Roos her job. However, in “The People’s Republic” of MDCPS, a grateful Godfather Carvalho (or perhaps someone acting on orders from the Godfather) shortly afterward rewarded his faithful thug/administrator with the highest award an administrator can achieve. Dr. Roos became a candidate for the prestigious Principal of the Year Award. 7) Although it is MANDATORY that all staff participate in the annual staff satisfaction survey, Dr. Roos (possibly in a vain effort to boost the abysmally low approval ratings she gets year after year) forbade almost all African Americans from taking this survey. Um, Godfather and school board members, it is possible that you may not yet be aware of this, but the Voting Act of 1965 gave ALL people the right to vote (Yep, African Americans too). I know that this may be a difficult concept for you to grasp, but when you forbid people to vote based on their race, it is called discrimination, and believe it or not, it is illegal. Astonishingly, Federal laws apply everywhere, even in The People’s Republic of MDCPS! Of course, as this law was passed in 1965, it is possible that the Godfather and the school board are not yet aware of this “recent” legislation. 8) It is possible that the ASTONISHINGLY high results Severely Mentally Retarded children have achieved for several years at NKC since Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez became the administrators were achieved by cheating. Should an investigative body INDEPENDENT of MDCPS investigate this, I know 2 people who may be able to shed some light on this matter

Godfather Carvalho knows that there are other schools with staff who may displease him, and he wants to be sure he has a ready force of thugs/administrators to brutally crush any dissent, however mild. To do this, potential thugs must retain their confidence in Godfather Carvalho’s ability to protect them, no matter how egregious their law breaking is. Thus, the Godfather will fight like a tiger to keep both thug/administrators at NKC NO MATTER HOW SERIOUS THEIR LAWBREAKING IS. If he cannot keep them at NKC, his next goal will be to merely shuffle them off to a new post, with both a promotion and a raise. If an equilibrium between staff and administrators is ever to be reestablished in MDCPS, this absolutely MUST NOT happen. The ONLY way rogue administrators (gosh, I hope I didn’t just repeat myself) and rogue superintendents will ever be brought back under control is if they begin to suffer penalties (up to and including imprisonment) commensurate with the crimes they commit. Another concern is that even if Godfather Carvalho is forced to remove one or even both of the two thugs currently in charge of NKC, he will merely replace them with two new thugs, as bad or worse than the thugs presently there. For this reason, the NKC staff is asking that Dr. Fernandez be reappointed to his post as the NKC principal, and Henny Cristobol be reappointed to his post as the NKC assistant principal.

The biggest reason that the equilibrium of power sharing between employees and administrators in MDCPS has become so HORRIBLY out of alignment is that there is no longer a REAL teacher’s union. Ms. Hernandez Mats is unashamedly and unabashedly the Godfather’s personal poodle. When the Godfather backed out of his promise to become the New York City education czar. Ms. Hernandez Mats used UTD money to throw a party for a superintendent that many of her membership consider to be the WORST superintendent MDCPS has ever had. Ms. Hernandez Mats, why is NKC a “no-go” zone for UTD? How many other “no-go” schools are there in MDCPS? Why have you answered none of the SEVEN (7) certified letters I have sent you? Why do UTD people almost never visit NKC? Ms. Hernandez Mats, as you know, a thirty- year NKC teacher had a nervous breakdown right on campus last spring, during the school day. That person is a former winner of the teacher of the year award, and an outstanding teacher in every regard. That teacher was and still is a UTD member. Do you know why that teacher had a nervous breakdown on campus? It happened because for over 6 years, the campus that neither you or any other UTD people dare to visit has become a HELLHOLE. At NKC, making sure you completely observe every single rule completely is NOT a guarantee a staff member won’t find himself or herself the victim of potentially career ending charges that have little or no basis in fact filed by these two thugs/administrators. Ms. Hernandez Mats, do you ever wonder why this former teacher of the year, and 30- year employee who is an exemplary teacher in every regard did not reach out to you prior to his/her nervous breakdown? I think you already know the answer to that question. This teacher did not call on UTD for help because this teacher knows that UTD does NOT have his/her back. This teacher correctly surmised that had he/she asked UTD for help, UTD would have pretended to see no problem and then stood back and pretended not to see when the two thugs/administrators of NKC retaliated at the conclusion of the sham UTD “investigation.” Karla, recently, Dr. Roos was accused of physically abusing a Severely Mentally Retarded child. That alleged abuse was allegedly witnessed by an African American NKC employee WHO HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF UTD FOR THIRTY YEARS. That person has a very deep love for Severely Mentally Retarded children. That person DESPERATELY wants to do anything in his/her power to protect these extremely vulnerable children who LITERALLY cannot speak for themselves. Karla, do you know why this UTD member has (very wisely) decided to keep his/her mouth shut? Do you know why this person has decided not to testify about the crime he/she allegedly saw Dr. Roos commit against a helpless and vulnerable Severely Mentally Retarded child? That person is too terrified to step forward because (after being a dues paying member of UTD for THIRTY YEARS) that person correctly surmises that Karla Hernandez Mats does NOT stand up for the rights of dues paying UTD members. Ms. Hernandez Mats, many UTD members believe that not only will you NOT stand up to defend UTD members, but you are in fact one of Godfather Carvalho’s closest and most trusted lieutenants, and that you will do almost ANYTHING to protect your Beloved Godfather, even if it means turning your back on a THIRTY- YEAR dues paying member of UTD. Ms. Hernandez Mats, do you have any idea how tortured this individual who has a DEEP. DEEP love for Severely Mentally Retarded children is feeling? Due to the fact that you simply will NOT exercise your DUTY to protect UTD members, this THIRTY -YEAR dues paying member of UTD is forced to choose between continuing to have a job with MDCPS or standing up for the rights of a Severely Mentally Retarded child. No matter which choice this person makes, he/she is going to be torn apart. Ms. Hernandez Mats, today I listened to the fourth robo-call I have received from you, urging me to vote for UTD candidates and issues. The hair on the back of my neck stood up as I listened to your very cheery, chipper voice. While I hope I am wrong, my belief is that you don’t care at all about the welfare of UTD members , just as long as you continue to be paid your SIX FIGURE SALARY, and just as long as you get the chance to continue to help your Beloved Godfather, even if you achieve the Godfather’s goals on the backs of dues paying UTD members. Ms. Hernandez Mats, although the UTD serfs at NKC have gone through HELL for over SIX YEARS, my guess is that you sleep like a baby every night. While I hope I am wrong, I get the feeling that you and the Godfather are soulmates. I say this because both of you give the appearance of not being concerned with anything other than your own well- being. Here is a question for you, Ms. Hernandez Mats. The dues paying members of NKC are aware of the fact that UTD is going to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for them, year after year. Yet year after year, they continue to pay their dues. Why do you suppose this is so? They do so because they see what happened to Mr. Rick Massa. Mr. Massa was NOT a member of UTD, and within a period of a month and a half, the poor man found himself charged with SEVEN (7) potentially career ending charges (all based on slim or nonexistent evidence) by the two thugs/administrators of NKC. Ms. Hernandez Mats, NKC staff belong to UTD NOT because they believe in it, but because they fear the two thugs/administrators who rule NKC will abuse them even more if they don’t belong to UTD. Ms. Hernandez Mats, you remind me of the thugs who charge mom and pop businesses a “protection fee” not to burn the business down. Ms. Hernandez Mats, would it be fair and accurate to say that both yourself and UTD are parasitic, taking from your victims while giving nothing in return? As a final aside, Mr. Massa was at one time a UTD steward. Later he realized what a worse than useless organization UTD is and quit. I was a UTD steward for 10 years. I also now believe that UTD is a worse than useless parasitic organization.

At one time, I and most of my NKC colleagues believed that NKC was one of the finest facilities in Florida, or perhaps even the entire USA for Severely Mentally Retarded children. It was an honor to work there, and I looked forward to coming to work every day. Unlike the present, where the thugs/Administrators view staff as adversaries and prey, the staff and administrators viewed each other as colleagues and allies in an effort to improve the quality of life for Severely Mentally Retarded children. All that changed when the Godfather illegally smashed NKC’s attempt to explore conversion to a charter school. The first change was that the 2 highly effective curriculums in use, (the Small Step Curriculum (SSC) and the M.O.V.E. curriculum were discarded (against the nearly unanimous wishes of the NKC staff) in favor of the utterly useless Unique Learning System (ULS), a curriculum that is FAR above the cognitive abilities of Severely Mentally Retarded children. This means that our students may sit in our classrooms for up to 19 years and learn very close to nothing at all. The only explanation I can think of for this disastrous change that the SSC earned nothing for the vendors who sell to MDCPS, while the ULS costs taxpayers a small fortune. Large profits for vendors mean large political contributions for school board members reelection campaigns. My guess is that the fact that students may sit in a classroom for up to 19 years while learning nothing is not nearly as important as school board members being reelected to cushy, well paid positions. The mission statement for MDCPS is “Giving Our Students the World.” Perhaps a more honest mission statement would be “Giving Our Vendors the World.” Many of our students are wheelchair bound. Students who sit in their wheelchairs all day long for several years have their bodies slowly “freeze” into a permanent sitting position. This can cause EXCRUCIATING pain in adulthood. When we used the M.O.V.E. curriculum, we got students out of their wheelchairs and into very expensive physical therapy devices that stretched their muscles and kept those muscles from atrophying. That very expensive physical therapy equipment is now stored away, gathering rust and dust. Under the two thugs/administrators who now terrorize NKC, students remain in their wheelchairs ALL DAY LONG! I once heard Dr. Roos BOAST that NKC wheelchair bound children are no longer removed from their wheelchairs. That is NOT something I would be proud of. Another important component of our curriculum was toilet training. Nothing will more adversely affect a child’s sense of self-esteem than an inability to control his/her bladder and bowels. Conversely, a child who has mastered this skill enjoys an ENORMOUS boost in self- esteem. (Also, students who have not mastered toilet training will NOT be accepted into sheltered workshops.) In prior years, we were able to place our top students into sheltered workshops. Sheltered workshops give special needs people a great boost in self-esteem. As a result of the completely useless ULS curriculum, virtually NONE of our students will qualify for a sheltered workshop after they graduate from NKC. This means that all NKC children, who have committed no crime, are now condemned to a life sentence, without the possibility of parole of being warehoused 24/7 in a group home once they graduate from NKC. Again, I realize that the profits of the MDCPS vendors, and the reelection campaign contributions school board members receive from those vendors FAR outweigh any benefit for Severely Mentally Retarded children. Toilet training used to be an important part of the NKC curriculum. When I left NKC, we were FORBIDDEN to toilet train our students. Again, toilet training does not generate revenue for vendors, and I guess that the humiliation of sitting in wet and soiled clothing is not as important as vendor revenue.

When NKC was FORCED to adopt the completely useless ULS curriculum, (this caused parents to picket our campus with signs) one parent became so disgusted that she no longer sent her son to school, saying he wasn’t learning anything, and NKC was wasting her child’s time. This gave MDCPS two alternatives. It could either present a curriculum helpful to the child, or it could put the hammer down. As MDCPS always does when presented with these two options, the school district put the hammer down. This mother was told to either have her child in attendance every day, or have the child forcibly removed from his home and involuntarily placed into a foster home. Thus, a precedent was established. No matter what, you either send your child to NKC, or the child will be placed into a foster home. Then, ”The Carvalho Tax” was imposed. As Mr. Carvalho and the school board have known for OVER THREE YEARS, NKC students are exposed to an entirely preventable elevated risk of choking to death on their food, because Dr. Roos, Mr. Carvalho, and the 9 members of the school board appear to be willing to use Severely Mentally Retarded children as bait, in an effort to dismiss staff that have fallen out of favor with the two thugs/administrators who rule NKC. (I have discussed this issue at great length in every letter I have sent to Godfather Carvalho and/or school board members. Those many letters can be found on my blog (mdcpsallegations.com) So the parents of NKC have a choice to make. The choice is to either keep their child out of school and have a 100% chance of losing the child to a foster home, or playing Russian Roulette with the possibility of the child choking to death on his/her food. As the percentages are lower for playing Russian Roulette, parents send their bait (I mean children) to NKC. However, MDCPS has recently upped the ante. As I described in my 10/31/2018 blog entry, Dr. Roos, who gives the appearance of being in extremely fragile emotional health, recently allegedly physically assaulted a Severely Mentally Retarded child. For reasons known only to God, MDCPS has chosen to leave this seemingly extremely emotionally unstable woman in charge of the students of NKC. (Godfather and school board members, have you noticed that Dr. Roos transgressions seem to be increasing both in severity and frequency? Does this worry you? What happens if Dr. Roos sends a child to the hospital, or worse yet, to the morgue? In that case, not even the extremely compliant Carvalho Herald (I mean the Miami Herald) may be able to keep a lid on the story.) So, in addition to the entirely preventable elevated risk of children choking to death on their food, parents now have to worry about their Severely Mentally Retarded child being attacked by the seemingly emotionally fragile principal of NKC School! MR CARVALHO AND THE 9 SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, DOES MDCPS HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO PROTECT SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN FROM BEING ATTACKED BY THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL? If (may God forbid it) one of the readers of this letter has a Severely Mentally Retarded child as a member of the family, would that person be comfortable sending that child to school at NKC? If you were the parent of an NKC child, or an NKC staff member, would you regard the superintendent and the school board as allies or as obstacles? Would it be fair and accurate to say that NKC is being run for the benefit of Mr. Carvalho and the school board, and not the benefit of the Severely Mentally Retarded children who attend that school?

Back in the 1950’s a young Nelson Mandela presented a proposition to the evil Apartheid government of South Africa. He said, “Give Blacks one third of the seats in Parliament, and I will permanently disarm the African National Congress (ANC) army. Furthermore, we will write into the Constitution that this one third percentage will NEVER be changed, so the Apartheid majority will be preserved forever.” Mr. Mandela made this offer not because he felt it was fair, but because he felt it was the best deal he could hope to achieve. Although the ANC fighters were tough, brave, and gallant, the South African Army was equipped with the most advanced military hardware the world had at that time. It was truly a fight between an elephant and an ant. The South African government was evil, arrogant, amoral, and respected only might and power. (One might say the South African government is just like Godfather Carvalho and the MDCPS school board is today.) The South African Government basically laughed at Mr. Mandela’s offer and told him to go to hell. Years later, when the Apartheid government was on the verge of collapse, its representatives approached Mr. Mandela and asked him if that deal was still on the table. Mr. Mandela chuckled and told them that unfortunately, that deal had expired just yesterday! (Lest my words be mistaken, I want to state for the record that I am NOT comparing myself to Mr. Mandela. On the worst day of that great man’s life, he was a better man than I will ever be.) The situation between NKC and MDCPS is much the same as it was for Mr. Mandela and the Apartheid government. Just as a once hopeless situation for Mr. Mandela and the ANC eventually turned into a wonderful future, I think things will eventually turn out well for the persecuted staff of NKC. As you recall, the Apartheid government fell due to the economic sanctions imposed against it. Last January, I wrote to every Florida politician who sits on the K-12 education committee. I asked that funding for MDCPS be withheld until the People’s Republic of MDCPS observes Florida and Federal laws. I will continue to send those letters every year when the Florida legislature meets. Also, I will write to the new Florida Governor and ask him to send independent investigators to do a district wide audit of The People’s Republic of MDCPS. Finally, I am actively trolling every national media source I know to get this explosive story of neglect out to the public. I am wondering if any of the readers of this letter are able to understand how explosive my blog will be to the general public?

If the readers of this letter will go back and read the first letter I sent in June 2015, (it’s on my blog mdcpsallegations.com) you will see that the tone of my letter was very respectful and deferential My sole request was that Dr. Roos be replaced as the NKC principal, and I gave numerous examples of her horrific failures as an administrator. I figured that being the end of the school year, this would be extremely easy for MDCPS to implement. When I got no response whatsoever from ANY of the five people I wrote to, I knew what kind of people I was dealing with. So here we are in 2018. MDCPS has had 4 summers to replace the thugs/administrators who have run NKC into the ground and declined to do so.

Godfather Carvalho, the voters of Miami-Dade County are about to bestow a terrible gift upon you. Although you do not give the appearance of being a decent or moral man, you appear to be a master politician. You have capitalized on the public’s well- founded fear of school shootings to place a measure on the ballot placing a policeman or policewoman in every school. You, of course, will be in charge of those police. The ever generous (and ever gullible) taxpayers will probably approve this measure because of their genuine wish to safeguard children. However, as you and I know, every well- meaning school law can be perverted to increase the power of education bureaucrats. Take the law protecting children against school teachers who are sexual predators. If that law is enforced as it was intended, it is a wonderful law. Having said that, the teachers Of MDCPS (and probably most other school districts in the country) have a bitter riddle. That riddle is: “What do you call an educator who disputes any policies of a school bureaucrat?” The answer, of course, is a child molester. In the same way, the primary function of all those new police at your disposal will NOT be to safeguard children, but to insure educators instantly and completely carry out all edicts from both yourself and school site administrators. Staff who balk at a particularly odious edict may get a warning of a glowering cop, with arms folded across his or her chest. Further reluctance on the part of the educator may result in the police officer observing that educator committing a career ending offense. As with everything else in the People’s Republic of MDCPS, promotion for MDCPS police officers will result not from merit, but from a willingness to instantly and without question carry out the edicts of the bureaucrats. I am very, very happy that I am no longer a MDCPS serf. (I mean employee)

My final thought in this letter is that Godfather Carvalho pretty much runs MDCPS singlehandedly. The school board gives the appearance of being nothing more than the Godfather’s rubber stamp, a fig leaf so that the Godfather can pretend that decisions are made by the educational politburo (Of one person.) If there were only 7 school board members, I guess you people could be thought of as the 7 dwarves. (Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Doc, and Bashful.) There is no doubt in my mind as to which one of you is Bashful. Mr. Feldman, you win that contest hands down. The students of NKC are in YOUR district, Mr. Feldman. I have sent you FIVE (5) certified letters and I haven’t heard so much as a peep from you. Mr. Feldman, for goodness sake, are you able for just once in your life to stop being the Godfather’s most reliable “Yes” man? Are you able to gather what little courage you seem to have and get up off your knees and stand up for children in YOUR district who literally cannot speak for themselves??? Mr. Feldman, I am not naïve enough to think that you would stand up for Severely Mentally Retarded children because it is the decent or moral thing to do. I am asking you to do this because if you don’t do this, the public may elect a school board member who really DOES care about the welfare of SEVERELY Mentally Retarded children. Think what that would mean. You would lose that extremely generous salary the taxpayers are giving you. You would also lose the fawning attention you receive by virtue of the fact that you are a school board member. Most frightening of all, you would no longer have your picture taken with people who really ARE movers and shakers in the field of education. Mr. Feldman, as long as you act in the best interests of Severely Mentally Retarded children, I really don’t care what your motivation for those actions is.

Sincerely,

Bill Detzner

Bill Detzner/7722 S.W. 99 St./Miami, Fl. 33156

Hello, Fed. Congratulations on being elected President of the Florida Education Association. Fed, I need your help. My name is Bill Detzner. My website is mdcpsallegations.com I was the UTD steward for 10 years at Neva King Cooper School (NKC) I was the steward during your tenure as the UTD President. In a nutshell, NKC has been persecuted and under lockdown for over 6 years as a result of NKC attempting to assert its (supposedly) legally protected right to convert from a public school to a charter school. I have sent 7 unanswered certified letters to Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, and another 7 unanswered certified letters to UTD President Karla Hernandez Mats. Among my accusations are an alleged physical attack by the school principal against a Severely Mentally Retarded African American student, illegally forbidding most of the African American staff from participating in the MANDATORY annual staff satisfaction survey,  and the principal threatening an African American woman whose daughter had been murdered just days before with an involuntary transfer to another school. (If you do not have time to read my entire blog, my latest entry, (Fourth Email To PTA President For MDCPS Nancy Lawther 10/31/2018) should give you a bird’s eye view of the situation. Fed, I am sending you this email and posting this email on my blog so that when this story breaks (I am trolling every national media source I know)you will not be able to say you were unaware of the situation. Here is what I am asking of you: 1) If it is within your power, can you remove (or recommend removal) of UTD President Karla Hernandez Mats for non-performance of her duties? 2) If it is within your power as FEA President, can you place the maximum sanction you are capable of against MDCPS Superintendent Alberto Carvalho for abuse of his position? 3) Will you please send me a list of all the actions you intend to take as a result of reading my blog? 4) If it is within your power as FEA President, will you recommend that the National Labor Relations Board and/or the Federal or Federal Bureau of Investigation do an in-depth audit of the entire MDCPS district? 5) Will you forward copies of this email to both Ms. Hernandez Mats and Mr. Carvalho? 6) Will you, as FEA President also recommend that BOTH current NKC administrators (Principal Dr. Tracy Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez) be immediately and permanently removed from their posts? Will you recommend that these two people be replaced by former NKC principal Dr. Alberto Fernandez and assistant principal Henny Cristobol as the new NKC administrators? 7) Will you ask that the two present NKC administrators principal Dr. Tracy Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez be investigated by a body INDEPENDENT of MDCPS for cheating on the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA) ? (I can provide the names of 2 people who can shed some light on this.) Will you also ask this investigative body to investigate Alicia Fernandez for knowingly and willfully filing false charges against Mr. Rick Massa for cheating on the FAA and then perjuring herself in her deposition in the resulting lawsuit? (I can provide the name of a person who can shed some light on this.) If an independent investigative body find the two present NKC administrators guilty of one or more offenses, will you recommend that they receive a penalty commensurate with their offense(s)? 8) Will you recommend that principal Roos be removed from the NKC campus until a comprehensive investigation is completed by an agency independent of MDCPS for possible child abuse? There is an NKC African American employee who has been both a MDCPS employee and a UTD member for over 30 years. He/She allegedly saw the alleged child abuse occur, but is too terrified to come forward. If an independent agency (perhaps the NAACP) were able to guarantee his/her safety from retaliation by MDCPS, he/she might be willing to testify. Thank You for your help in this matter.

Hello Nancy, and hello also to your PTA vice president who has also received every email I sent you. I am disappointed that neither one of you have answered my previous 3 requests for help for Severely Mentally Retarded (SMR) children. I am hoping you will respond to this 4’th email and act to protect children so vulnerable that they literally cannot speak for themselves. I want to bring an event to your attention that is so shocking that only a very cold hearted person would fail to respond to it. (My hope is that neither one of you is a very cold hearted person.) About a week and a half ago, at the end of the school day, a bus returned to Neva King Cooper School (NKC), returning a Severely Mentally Retarded child to NKC. The child was returned to NKC because there was no one at the child’s home to receive the child. The child was returned to NKC AFTER 3:05 P.M., so the child’s teacher had already gone home for the day, as staff are dismissed at that time. The contract very clearly states that if a child is returned to school after staff have gone home, the principal (Dr. Tracy Roos) is legally OBLIGATED to accept custody of that child. Nevertheless, Dr. Roos allegedly attempted to refuse to accept custody of this Severely Mentally Retarded child. The bus driver and the bus aide informed Dr. Roos that they (the 2 bus people) had been told by their supervisor to release the severely mentally retarded child to the principal and return the school bus to its parking lot. Allegedly, the 2 bus personnel assisted the Severely Mentally Retarded child off the bus (They said it was them, and NOT Dr. Roos who off-loaded the student.) At that point Dr. Roos (possibly believing nobody was watching) allegedly PHYSICALLY ABUSED the child. This incident was witnessed by THREE individuals. The first two witnesses were the bus driver and the bus aide. The third witness was an African American staff member of NKC who has been an employee of Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) for over 30 years. This person has also been a member of United Teachers of Dade (UTD) for over 30 years. The two bus personnel wrote up and pressed formal charges against Dr. Roos. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME DR ROOS HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING A PERSON. My blog (mdcpsallegations.com) describes in great detail Dr. Roos alleged physical assault of an NKC staff member. This staff member did not report this incident to the MDCPS investigative bodies, probably because he/she feared the incident would be covered up and the employee retaliated against. This person transferred to another school and is still a MDCPS employee should an investigative body want to investigate this. Superintendent Carvalho, UTD president Hernandez Mats, and all 9 school board members are all well aware of this incident. In my blog, I discussed that Dr. Roos allegedly told me that she (Dr. Roos) has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) My blog also discussed Dr. Roos 2 uncontrollable crying jags at faculty meetings (one of which I personally witnessed.) Dr. Roos gives the impression of being an extremely emotionally unstable person. She also gives the appearance of being an extremely vicious and vindictive person who seems to derive extreme pleasure in getting revenge against any person who  has caused Dr. Roos to look bad, even if it is solely the fault of Dr. Roos that she (Dr. Roos) has done something to make herself look bad. I have explained all of this to Mr. Carvalho, the 9 school board members, and Ms. Hernandez Mats in the numerous unanswered letters I have sent them. A MPCPS police officer also participated in the sham “investigation” that was done in regard to this incident. This MDCPS police officer is the spouse of an NKC teacher who is allegedly Dr. Roos best “snitch” on campus. A few years ago, the teacher who is allegedly a “snitch” for Dr. Roos had a dispute with a paraprofessional he/she worked with. (an African American woman) This teacher allegedly talked his/her MDCPS police officer spouse into paying an unauthorized visit to the NKC campus in an attempt to intimidate the African American paraprofessional. The police officer allegedly parked his/her police car illegally on campus, allegedly went onto the grounds of the campus (without announcing his/her presence or purpose to the principal), without signing in, and went to his/her spouse’s classroom  and silently stood in the open classroom door with his/her arms folded across his/her chest for several minutes, glaring at the African American woman who reported this rogue cop to Dr. Alberto Fernandez, (the NKC principal at the time) Dr. Fernandez ordered this rogue cop to leave the campus and never return unless on official business. In another incident, Dr. Roos was attempting to terminate an employee she did not like. Dr. Roos attempted to pressure other NKC employees into saying one or more of us had witnessed this staff member physically abusing a child. NKC staff members are very protective of Severely Mentally Retarded children and we will not tolerate staff who abuse these children. (Of course, if NKC ADMINISTRATORS abuse severely mentally retarded children, staff are too fearful for their jobs to turn in the offending NKC administrator.) I will discuss that later. Anyway, (most but not all) NKC staff are also unwilling to willfully lie and say that they observed a staff member do something illegal if that alleged illegal action did not actually occur. As no staff saw the alleged physical abuse occur, nobody stepped forward to level willfully false charges against the serf who had incurred Dr. Roos wrath. That was the point where Dr. Roos had her first alleged uncontrollable crying jag that I personally witnessed. At that point, Dr. Roos called in this same MDCPS police officer to see if additional pressure would cause staff to level knowingly false charges. This police officer began one-on-one questioning with a staff member who stated SEVERAL TIMES that he had not witnessed any physical abuse at NKC. At this point, the police officer began shouting and banging his/her hand on the table and accusing the staff member of lying! This is the police officer who did the sham “investigation” of Dr. Roos alleged abuse of a Severely Mentally Retarded child. Both members of this husband/wife team of MDCPS employees are widely considered by most NKC employees to be completely under the control of Dr. Roos. The cameras that were in the bus loading area were in the sole custody of Dr. Roos and this police officer. It was not surprising that it was ruled that the cameras did not show evidence of Dr. Roos physically abusing this Severely Mentally Retarded child. One other incident needs to be discussed to show why this 30 year MDCPS employee who is African American was too terrified to step forward and testify as to what he/she saw Dr. Roos do. As I described in my blog, last year, shortly after the daughter of an African American NKC staff member was murdered, Dr. Roos allegedly ordered an African American custodian (who is a very close friend of the woman whose daughter was murdered) to verbally convey Dr. Roos threat to have this African American woman involuntarily transferred to another school. When it looked like Dr. Roos might suffer negative consequences for this action (shortly afterwards, Dr. Roos was nominated as a candidate for the prestigious Principal of the Year Award). Dr. Roos summoned the African American custodian to her office for a closed door meeting and allegedly threatened this man with immediate termination of his job unless he recanted his story that Dr. Roos had ordered him to deliver this threat to his friend. Nancy, are you aware of the fact that last spring, Dr. Roos allegedly illegally forbade most African American staff from participating in the MANDATORY annual staff satisfaction survey? Do the two of you see that in incident after incident Dr. Roos gives the appearance of being very racist and performing harmful hateful actions against African Americans. The Severely Mentally Retarded child Dr. Roos allegedly abused is African American. Given the fact that MDCPS has a policy that MANDATES that an administrator accused of physically abusing a child be removed from that campus until the investigation is complete (for the protection of the child) , and given the fact that MDCPS is aware that this is NOT the first time that Dr. Roos has been accused of physical assault, and given the fact that MDCPS is well aware of the fact that Dr. Roos gives the appearance of being in extremely fragile emotional health, and given the fact that Dr. Roos gives the impression that she is unable to control her destructive urges, and given the fact that Dr. Roos has a long history of actions against African Americans that appear to be racist and discriminatory in nature, and given the fact that the child who allegedly suffered this abuse is African American, and given the fact that this child does not have speech and therefore cannot tell anyone if Dr. Roos allegedly physically abused him, doesn’t it seem odd to you and your vice president that MDCPS failed to follow its own policy of  MANDATORY removal of an accused abusive administrator from the campus??? I think there are 2 reasons why MDCPS failed to implement its own MANDATORY guidelines: 1) MDCPS is a criminal enterprise and they do whatever they need to do to sweep their criminal activities under the carpet 2) Keeping Dr. Roos on campus is a very effective way of silencing this terrified African American 30 year employee and 30 year UTD member until the incredibly short deadline for prosecuting offenses of this nature passes. This person is well aware of my blog. This person has personally witnessed the brutal and willful rape of NKC employees for the last 6 years. This person is well aware that although all NKC employees are treated very poorly, African American employees are treated the worst of all. This person knows that although UTD has been fully informed of the rape of its NKC members for 6 years, UTD has done NOTHING to defend those members. This person witnessed the fact that after Dr. Roos committed an offense so serious that it should have resulted in Dr. Roos termination of employment.  (threatening an employee with an involuntary transfer shortly after the murder of that employees daughter) Dr. Roos was not only NOT punished, she was nominated for the highly prestigious Principal of the Year Award. This person saw that the only person who was punished in this incident was the African American custodian who was threatened with immediate job termination. This person knows that if he/she were foolish enough to report Dr. Roos physical abuse, he/she would be reporting that incident to the MDCPS police officer who is widely viewed by NKC staff as being very corrupt and entirely under the control of Dr. Roos. I worked for Dr. Roos for 3 years, and I know what she is capable of. In the time I worked there, Dr. Roos NEVER ONCE failed to achieve revenge against a person who had caused her to look bad, even if it was entirely the fault of Dr. Roos that she looked bad. This Severely Mentally Retarded child does not have any physical speech and cannot tell anyone if Dr. Roos (again) physically abuses him. Given the fact that this child is Severely Mentally Retarded, Dr. Roos cannot inflict mental or emotional abuse against him. The only tool left in her toolbox is physical cruelty. Here is one (of many) options available to Dr. Roos for illegally punishing this child for the “crime” of having nobody at home one day at the end of the school day. Dr. Roos could simply order this child’s teacher to deliver the child to her office. Once the child is behind closed doors, Dr. Roos seems to have a green light from Superintendent Carvalho, the 9 school board members, and Ms. Hernandez Mats to physically abuse this Severely Mentally Retarded child with virtual impunity. Even if staff hear the child’s screams of pain and terror, who will be brave enough to risk their job by reporting an action that will result in no adverse consequences to Dr. Roos??? You see, Nancy, (and your vice president) that child is not the only one who has no voice. The staff of NKC also have no voice. UTD will NOT exercise its MANDATORY duty to protect its members from unlawful actions by MDCPS. I have sent 7 unanswered certified letters each to both Superintendent Carvalho and to Ms. Hernandez Mats. The staff of NKC is asking you (for the 4’th time) to ask Superintendent Carvalho to immediately and permanently remove both NKC principal Tracy Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez from their posts (Mrs. Fernandez allegedly knowingly and willfully filed false charges against an NKC employee for cheating on the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA) test and then allegedly perjuring herself in her deposition in the resulting lawsuit. (If an independent investigative body investigates this, I can provide a former NKC staff member who can verify this) Both Dr. Roos and Alicia Fernandez allegedly  cheated for many years on the FAA (I can provide the names of 2 people no longer at NKC who can shed some light on this. ) As the NKC staff feel they have been punished for over 6 years for engaging in the (supposedly) legally protected process of exploring converting from a public school to a charter school, and given the fact that the NKC staff are deeply fearful that Superintendent Carvalho intends to punish them in perpetuity, they are asking that former principal Dr. Alberto Fernandez and former assistant principal Henny Cristobol be restored to their positions. Given the fact that the NKC staff is fearful that the MDCPS internal investigative bodies are extremely corrupt, the staff is hoping that an independent body such as the National Labor Relations Board or the Federal or Florida Bureau of Investigation will do a district wide audit of MDCPS. The NKC staff is hoping that the PTA of MDCPS will endorse all of these actions in a written memorandum to Superintendent Carvalho, or whatever part of these requests fall under the PTA jurisdiction. Nancy, a politically ambitious person might be motivated to seek the position of the MDCPS PTA president only to buff up his/her resume in anticipation of a career as an educational bureaucrat. Such a person would do ANYTHING, even overlooking the physical abuse of a Severely Mentally Retarded child in order to remain in the good graces of a powerful political patron  such as Mr. Carvalho. I am hoping you are not that kind of person. When you accepted this post, one of your duties was/is to protect the rights of children, even if carrying out your duties caused you to become unpopular with powerful educational bureaucrats. Nancy, you should know that the explosive allegations in my blog are not going to go unnoticed forever. I an currently trolling every nationwide media source I can. When this story breaks, if you choose to do little or nothing, how will that effect the careers of you and your vice president? Nancy, it is time to put on your big girl pants. Here is the present situation at NKC. Staff are well aware that it is illegal to physically abuse a child, ESPECIALLY a Severely Mentally Retarded child. However, MDCPS says there is an exception to this rule. MDCPS says that (in violation of Federal law) an administrator may abuse one OR MORE? Severely Mentally Retarded children, WITH VIRTUAL IMPUNITY! Think of that. The school principal, who is supposed to be the school leader, stands accused of child abuse, and it seems highly likely that she is indeed guilty of that offense. Not only that. Given Dr. Roos seemingly fragile emotional health, it seems likely that an incident like this (or worse) is likely to happen again, possibly in the near future. DO MDCPS OFFICIALS HAVE A DUTY TO PROTECT EXTREMELY FRAGILE SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN FROM PHYSICAL ABUSE AT THE HANDS OF THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL? If this is no longer the case, DOES THE PTA STILL HAVE THIS DUTY? It gets worse. Although Superintendent Carvalho and the 9 school board members are COMPLETELY aware of what is going on, they give the appearance of attempting not only to cover this up, but to allow Dr. Roos to potentially physically abuse one or more NKC students in the future. The NKC staff and parents who read my blog are aware of this situation. As you know, I am going to post this email on my blog.

Hi Ebony. Would you please be kind enough to forward this email to Ruban Roberts? There has been a new development at  Neva King Cooper School (NKC.) A few days ago, the school principal, Dr. Tracy Roos allegedly physically assaulted an African American severely mentally retarded student in front of witnesses who submitted formal charges against her. By the way, this is not the first time Dr. Roos has been accused of physically assaulting a person. A few years ago, an NKC employee alleged that Dr. Roos had physically assaulted that employee. The employee was so fearful of retaliation by MDCPS (who act more like a criminal enterprise than a school district)  if he/she reported the incident that the employee did not report the incident to MDCPS authorities and transferred to another school. That person is still a MDCPS employee and is a very kind person who cares very deeply about severely mentally retarded children. If this person finds out about this alleged physical assault against an NKC student, that person may be willing to come forward and tell about Dr. Roos alleged first physical assault.  Although it is MANDATORY that Dr. Roos be assigned alternate duty at another location until the investigation is complete, (for the safety of the child) Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) is refusing to do this, and Dr. Roos remains the principal at NKC. This means the child’s parents must either keep their child out of school and risk having the child removed from his home and placed in foster care, or send him back to NKC where a principal who has personally told me she (Dr. Roos) has an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Additionally, Dr. Roos gives the appearance of being unable to control her vicious and vindictive impulses and has a long history of retaliating against anyone who has caused her (Dr. Roos) to look bad. Thus it is entirely possible that if this child is returned to NKC, Dr. Roos may again physically assault him. As you can see, returning this child to NKC, where Dr. Roos is still the principal is not a good idea. While allowing this child to transfer to another school  (which may result in a longer bus ride each way for a child who did nothing wrong) is one solution, it still leaves Dr. Roos (who most of the NKC staff regard as very racist) (i.e. last spring, she illegally forbade most of the African American NKC staff from taking the MANDATORY staff satisfaction survey.) in charge of a school containing other African American severely mentally retarded children. Again, given the fact that Dr. Roos has said she has OCD, this places these children at risk for being physically assaulted by Dr. Roos. For this reason, the NKC staff is hoping that the NAACP will see fit to insist that Dr. Roos be relieved permanently of her duties at NKC. As Superintendent Carvalho has punished NKC for six years ( I talk about this at great length in my blog mdcpsallegations.com) the NKC staff is very fearful that Mr. Carvalho will appoint a new principal to NKC who is as bad or even worse than Dr. Roos. For this reason, the NKC staff has asked me to ask the NAACP if this organization would consider asking Mr. Carvalho to reinstate the previous administrators who are Dr. Alberto Fernandez (principal) and Henny Cristobol (assistant principal) One other problem that results from allowing Dr. Roos to remain at NKC is the issue of witness intimidation. You see, in addition to the bus driver and the bus aide who witnessed Dr. Roos alleged physical assault of this student, an African American woman and NKC staff member who has been a MDCPS employee for over 30 years also witnessed this event. She is terrified to come forward to report what she saw, probably because she remembers what happened to the African American custodian who came forward last year and reported Dr. Roos for threatening another NKC African American woman whose daughter had just been murdered with an involuntary transfer to another school. Dr. Roos summoned the custodian to her office for a closed door meeting and threatened the man with immediate termination of his job unless he immediately recanted saying that Dr. Roos had ordered him to threaten one of his closest friends with an involuntary transfer to another school. MDCPS is more like a criminal enterprise than it is a school district, and I think the reason MDCPS is violating its MANDATORY rule that a principal accused of child abuse be removed from campus pending the results of the investigation  is because MDCPS knows that if Dr. Roos is removed from NKC, the third witness to Dr. Roos child abuse will lose her fear of testifying what she saw Dr. Roos do.

I am contacting you regarding the illegal reprisals that have been happening at Neva King Cooper (NKC) a school for severely retarded children. These abuses have been happening for 6 years, ever since Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) Superintendent Carvalho illegally smashed NKC’s attempt to convert from a public school to a charter school. (legal case DOAH 13-1492) My blog is mdcpsallegations.com The principal, Dr. Tracy Roos told me she has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and seems unable to control her vicious and vindictive illegal retaliation against staff and students. Most NKC staff view BOTH NKC administrators as extremely racist. Last spring, Dr. Roos forbade almost all African American staff from taking the MANDATORY staff satisfaction survey. A few days ago, Dr. Roos allegedly physically assaulted an African American severely mentally retarded student in front of witnesses, who submitted formal charges against her. Although it is MANDATORY that Dr. Roos be assigned alternate duty at another location until the investigation is complete(for the safety of the child), MDCPS is refusing to do this and Dr. Roos remains at NKC. This means this child’s parents must either keep their child out of school and risk having their child removed from his home and involuntarily transferred to a foster home, or send him back to NKC, where a principal who has said she has OCD and seems incapable of suppressing her vicious and vindictive impulses, and has a long history of retaliating against everyone who has caused her (Dr. Roos) to be viewed in a negative light is still in charge of running the school this Severely Mentally Retarded child attends. SENATOR NELSON, DO SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN IN FLORIDA HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE FROM PHYSICAL ASSAULT BY THEIR PRINCIPAL? The African American staff and the African American parents of NKC are FURIOUS, and a major explosion seems imminent. Over a period of 3 years, I have sent 7 UNANSWERED certified letters to Superintendent Carvalho and another 7 unanswered certified letters to United Teachers of Dade (UTD) president Hernandez-Mats. MDCPS seems more like a criminal enterprise than a school district. Reform from within will never happen as MDCPS is utterly corrupt. Would it be possible for you as a Florida senator to relieve Superintendent Carvalho of his duties and appoint a caretaker superintendent while an independent investigative body such as the National Labor Relations Board or the Florida or Federal Bureau of Investigation does an in-depth investigation of MDCPS? I have sent several letters to Governor Scott regarding this matter and he has not responded. As I am a political atheist, my friend is whoever will help me fight for the rights of Severely Mentally Retarded children. If there is an explosion at NKC and it gets in the papers that you knew of the problems and did nothing, it could hurt you in the election. I am posting this email on my blog.