October 24 Email to NAACP

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.