Month: October 2018

October14, 2017
Dear Dr. Johnson,
Hello, and Good Morning. Recently, I sent you a letter concerning an alleged incident that occurred at Neva King Cooper School (NKC). To refresh your memory, Mrs. Green, an African-American staff person at NKC, recently suffered the tragedy of her daughter’s murder Shortly after that incident, the NKC principal, Dr. Roos allegedly ordered an African-American custodian at NKC, Mr. Jackson to deliver a verbal message from Dr. Roos to Mrs. Green. That alleged message was to tell Mrs. Green that if Mrs. Green was unhappy at NKC, Dr. Roos would be happy to arrange for a transfer of Mrs. Green to another school.
Today, I received a telephone call from Mrs. Green, informing me that last week, Dr. Roos allegedly summoned Mr. Jackson to a lengthy, closed door meeting. At that meeting, Dr. Roos allegedly threatened to terminate Mr. Jackson’s employment unless Mr. Jackson agreed to recant his testimony against Dr. Roos concerning the alleged threatened involuntary transfer of Mrs. Green to another school.
Dr. Johnson, both Mr. Jackson and Mrs. Green are fearful that Dr. Roos has begun her campaign of illegal retaliation against them, that both of their jobs are at risk, and that Superintendent Carvalho will do little or nothing to protect them. If the NAACP is willing to lend its mighty voice, this illegal retaliation cannot take place. God Bless You for any help you are able to provide. Mrs. Green has asked that I give you her telephone number. It is 786-718-8163.Please find enclosed my fourth letter to Mr. Carvalho.
Respectfully,
Bill Detzner
Bill Detzner/7722 S.W. 99 Street/Miami, FL. 33156 billdetzner@bellsouth.net 305-279-5488

2 October 1018
Hello Ms. Hernandez Mats,
My name is Bill Detzner. Readers wanting further information about what I discuss in this letter can find that 2 October 2018
information in my blog mdcpsallegations.com I am asking you to share this letter with all members of the UTD Hello Ms. Hernandez Mats.
Executive Council, Superintendent Carvalho, and all 9 members of the school board. (I am once again asking that school board members ask Mr. Carvalho to immediately remove the 2 present NKC administrators and replace them with former principal Dr. Alberto Fernandez and former assistant principal Henny Cristobol. If Mr. Carvalho fails to do this in a timely manner, I am asking school board members to contact Governor Rick Scott and ask the governor to remove Mr. Carvalho for non-performance of his duties.) I have sent many unanswered certified letters to several MDCPS stakeholders. I have sent 6 of these letters to you (Ms. Hernandez Mats), 6 to Mr. Carvalho, 4 to Mr. Feldman, 3 to Mr. Gallon, 3 to the Florida Commissioner of Education, 3 to Dr. Shirley Johnson,(the President of the Miami NAACP), 2 to Governor Rick Scott (plus a third letter that was not sent via certified mail), 1 to Senator Bill Nelson, 1 to Betsy DeVos, and 1 letter to every member of the MDCPS school board. With the exception of Betsy DeVos, none of my certified letters have resulted in a response. Not. A. Single. Word. in response to 38 certified letters over a 3- year period. I have 2 reasons for sending you this 7’th certified letter. First, I don’t want you to bleat that you did not know what is going on in Neva King Cooper (NKC) School. Secondly, I want to show readers of my blog that MDCPS is a criminal enterprise, and that Superintendent Carvalho seems to have the ability to unilaterally make decisions in violation of both Federal and state law. The two stakeholders who are supposed to serve as a check on Mr. Carvalho, (UTD and the school board) either cannot or will not hold Mr. Carvalho to either uphold the law, or to protect the lives of Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) children. My belief is that MDCPS is an “old boys/old girls” organization that has become so corrupt that reform can ONLY come from the Governor, either Rick Scott, or his successor. Although this letter is addressed to you (Ms. Hernandez Mats), my hope is that the letter will be read by other people who are aware of my blog. These people include Governor Rick Scott, Senator Bill Nelson, Dr. Shirley Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts, Cameron Kasky, Bill Gates, and the education reporters for both the Miami Herald and the New York Times. If Governor Scott fails to step in to stop the egregious criminal actions of MDCPS, my hope is that Senator Bill Nelson will see fit to make a t.v. commercial showing that Governor Scott has been aware that PMH children have been exposed to an entirely preventable danger of choking to death on their food and done NOTHING to protect those children. Mr. Kasky is the co-founder of the Marching for Our Lives, the organization protesting inadequate safety precautions in public schools that have led to entirely preventable student deaths. Mr. Kasky has a special needs brother. Mr. Kasky has stated that he would be extremely upset if his special needs brother suffered harm while at school. I am hoping that Mr. Kasky and the students Of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will see that a superintendent and school board that exposes PMH children to an entirely preventable risk of choking to death on their food [seemingly to terminate teachers who were foolish enough to exercise their supposedly protected choice to convert to a charter school] are just as guilty of terrorism as a disgruntled student with a gun (For that matter, I hope both Governor Scott and Senator Nelson also share this view.) I am hoping that Dr. Shirley Johnson will read the September4, 2018 letter that is posted on my blog and come to the conclusion that both NKC principal Dr. Tracy Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez give the appearance of being racists who have committed numerous egregious violations against the dignity and civil rights of the African American employees of NKC.
I am asking that Ms. Hernandez Mats take the following three actions: 1) Ask the National Labor Relations Board to do a county wide audit of MDCPS to determine if Federal labor laws are being enforced. 2) Send a written memorandum to Mr. Carvalho asking that both NKC principal Dr. Tracy Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) be immediately relieved of their duties as NKC administrators and be replaced by Dr. Alberto Fernandez as the new principal and Mr. Henny Cristobol as the new assistant principal. 3) I am asking UTD to file a grievance for a violation of the civil rights of the African American employees of NKC. Last spring, in an effort to prop up the abysmally low scores that the 2 NKC administrators generate year after year on the MANDATORY staff satisfaction surveys, the para-professionals of NKC were ILLEGALLY prevented from taking this MANDATORY survey. As many NKC students are in wheelchairs and need to be lifted out of those wheelchairs to have their diapers changed, there are almost as many paraprofessionals as teachers at that school. A high percentage of those paraprofessionals are African Americans. By ILLEGALLY preventing paraprofessional from taking this MANDATORY survey, it meant that only a small percentage of African Americans took the survey, while a very high percentage of African American staff were discriminated against, and not allowed to participate in this MANDATORY survey. Mr. Carvalho, yourself (Ms. Hernandez Mats), and the entire school board is aware of this blatant discrimination against African Americans because I sent each of you a certified letter describing this violation. Um, Ms. Hernandez Mats, I don’t know if you are aware of this, but a significant portion of the UTD membership is composed of African Americans. Judging by the fact that you have done NOTHING to address this problem, my assumption is that you are OK with the fact that MDCPS discriminates against African Americans!. As there is a 6- month window of opportunity to file these charges, UTD NEEDS TO TAKE THIS ACTION AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE Ms. Hernandez Mats, if you allow this matter to lapse, my hope is that the UTD Executive Council will remove you from office for non-performance of your duties. The address of the agency is U.S. Dept. of Education/Office for Civil Rights/Atlanta Office Southern Division/ 61ForsythSt.SW/Suite 19T10/Atlanta, GA. 30303. The contact person is Michelle Reid (404) 974-9386. Or Arthur Manigault at (404) 974-9376. The UTD steward at NKC is Mr. Brett Darwin Brown. As NKC appears to be one of many “no go” zones for UTD for the last 6 years, the UTD officials may have no clue who Mr. Brown is, or what he looks like. In the unlikely event that the well paid UTD officials are able to screw up their courage and enforce their contractual right to visit the NKC campus, Mr. Brett Darwin Brown is an African American man about 55 years of age. In the event that MDCPS elects to illegally punish Mr. Brown for engaging in protected union activities, and UTD pretends not to see the district illegally retaliating against Mr. Brown, I want to state for the record that Mr. Brown HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO with my (Mr. Detzner) actions to involve the Atlanta Ga. office in an action against MDCPS. As UTD is an extremely timid organization, and as MDCPS is an extremely vindictive organization, I have deliberately had no contact whatsoever with many NKC people, including Mr. Brown. So, if MDCPS or Dr. Roos or Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) is contemplating retaliation against Mr. Brown, please be aware of the fact that the only contact I have had with Mr. Brown in the last 3 years was when I telephoned him like a bolt out of the blue a few weeks ago to let him know I had contacted the NAACP and that that organization might be contacting Mr. Brown.
Ms. Hernandez Mats, it distresses me enormously that THREE YEARS of writing 38 certified letters have not resulted in even a miniscule decrease in the flagrantly illegal actions of either one of the NKC administrators. For example, a few weeks ago, a very gifted NKC teacher who has joined the long, long line of employees who have left NKC due to the excesses of BOTH NKC administrators made the mistake of attempting to visit his/her colleagues at NKC. This teacher visited the NKC campus between 2:00 P.M and 3:00 P.M. At that time, ALL STUDENTS HAD GONE HOME FOR THE DAY, AND THE ENTIRE STAFF HAD THEIR PLANNING PERIOD. This teacher, (who is a very pleasant and easy- going person who gets along very well with all NKC staff) signed the visitors log and began cordial conversations with NKC staff. Dr. Roos “allegedly” (I will use the word allegedly to protect myself legally) ordered the security person to tell this teacher to either leave the premises immediately and never return, or the school police would be summoned and this teacher, who is still a MDCPS teacher at a different school would be arrested. This teacher is a resident of Miami-Dade County, and a taxpayer. As such, having signed in, he/she had a legal right to be at that school. Does Dr. Roos intend to use that same “technique” to run every other Miami-Dade County taxpayer visitor off the NKC campus? If not, why was this teacher treated differently than other taxpayers? Given the fact that no students were on campus, no staff objected to the presence of this person on campus, and the person signed in at the office as a visitor, did Dr. Roos have the authority to run this teacher off campus? Is NKC the property of Dr. Roos or is it the property of the taxpayers of Miami- Dade County.? Given the fact that there were no students on campus, and given the fact that it was the teachers planning period, and given the fact that this teacher had signed in at the office, and given the fact that this teacher is extremely popular with the NKC staff, what was Dr. Roos reason for running this teacher off campus? It is difficult to believe that Dr. Roos (who seems to derive great satisfaction out of bullying and humiliating her staff) was unaware of how humiliating and unpleasant this experience must have been for this outstanding and well- liked teacher.
Ms. Hernandez Mats, you do not give the appearance of being the sharpest tool in the shed. Having said that, I am sure that even you are able to understand that the reason MDCPS administrators feel safe in committing numerous egregious contract violations is because in the 3 years you have been the UTD president, UTD has UTTERLY failed to enforce the contract or impose penalties on administrators who violate the contract. (Perhaps this is because you were busy spending UTD funds to throw a celebratory party when Mr. Carvalho declined his job offer in New York City). It is my deepest hope that you either not run for another term of office, or the UTD Executive Council removes you for non-performance of your duties. The teacher that Dr. Roos illegally ran off the NKC campus poses a potential problem for the allegedly criminal behavior of assistant principal Alicia Fernandez (Screamer). In my blog, I described in great detail how Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) filed charges against Mr. Rick Massa. (As Mr. Massa is now retired, and out of the reach of the extremely vindictive MDCPS goons and thugs (I mean bureaucrats) he is one of the few people who cannot be retaliated against, so I will use his name.) Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) filed charges against Mr. Massa for Mr. Massa’s alleged cheating on the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA). The FAA is the high stakes yearly achievement test that is given to Profoundly Mentally Handicapped children. In an effort to save money, only a few copies of the test are given to our school, so teachers share the testing materials. A teacher will test his/her class, and then hand the testing materials to the next teacher. When Mr. Massa received the testing materials, they had been used by a rookie (i.e. inexperienced) teacher who had marked the correct answers in the test booklet, and then gave that test booklet to Mr. Massa. Mr. Massa, who was well aware that he was public enemy number one in the eyes of both NKC administrators, went to Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) office, and showed Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) the marked test materials. THERE WAS A TEACHER PRESENT IN MRS. FERNANDEZ (SCREAMER) OFFICE WHO WITNESSED THIS EXCHANGE BETWEEN MRS. FERNANDEZ (SCREAMER) AND MR. MASSA. The teacher who witnessed this exchange was the same teacher that Dr. Roos recently illegally ran off the NKC campus. Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) thanked Mr. Massa for this information about the marked test booklet, allowed Mr. Massa to exit her office and begin testing his students, waited 10-15 minutes, used her master key to enter Mr. Massa’s classroom, and was SHOCKED, SHOCKED to discover that Mr. Massa was “CHEATING” on the high -stakes achievement test! Later, under oath, Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) allegedly committed perjury when she made a deposition in Mr. Massa’s resulting lawsuit for Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) trumped up charges. Mr. Massa then went to the teacher who observed the exchange between Mr. Massa and Mrs. Fernandez and asked if he/she would be willing to testify on behalf of Mr. Massa. This teacher, who will never have tenure, and can be fired at the drop of a hat, replied that he/she had a family to feed, and feared (correctly) he/she would be fired if he/she testified. Well, this teacher is no longer at NKC. Normally, this teacher could be kept quiet, because Mr. Carvalho gives the appearance of being an absolute dictator. Everyone I know, from administrators to paraprofessionals DEEPLY fears Mr. Carvalho. Under normal circumstances, if this teacher were to threaten to tell the truth, Mr. Carvalho has the option of quietly whispering to the administrator in charge of this teacher to threaten the teacher with termination if he/she obeyed Mr. Carvalho’s often repeated commandment of “If you see something, say something.” An administrator who fails to carry out any of Mr. Carvalho’s wishes risks termination, or an end of the administrator’s career advancement. Mr. Carvalho has a BIG problem here. You see the new administrator of this teacher is a man/woman that Mr. Carvalho illegally attempted to terminate. The case went to an administrative hearing, and it was found that Mr. Carvalho and MDCPS had broken every rule in the book to attempt to illegally fire this person. Having this black mark against him, Mr. Carvalho must be very careful not to again attempt to illegally remove this administrator. The administrator cares very deeply about the quality of education delivered to students. He/She has no qualms about removing a non- performing teacher. However, as the teacher who was chased out of NKC is an outstanding teacher, he/she is not in danger of losing his/her job while an employee of this administrator. This is a teacher that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) needs to speak to AFTER they guarantee he/she will not be retaliated against for his/her testimony. Ms. Hernandez Mats, I have been asking you for YEARS to contact the NLRB, and you have not done so. Why is this? Given the fact that you are not willing to take this step, my hope is that either Governor Scott or his successor will take this step. Also, since Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) have been the NKC administrators, NKC students have achieved results on the yearly high stakes achievement test (FAA) that seem to be vastly in excess of their intellectual capacities. (The NKC administrators achieve a hefty cash bonus for these astonishing results) As the test results under the previous administrators (principal DR. Alberto Fernandez and assistant principal Mr. Henny Cristobol) were MUCH lower for a period of several years, it is possible that cheating on this test has occurred. These tests are kept on file for several years. If the NLRB or any other investigative body investigates this, I know the names of 2 people who are no longer at NKC who may be able to shed quite a bit of light on this.
In my blog, I talked about how Mrs. Green, an African American grandmother was allegedly threatened with an involuntary transfer to another school, shortly after the brutal murder of Mrs. Green’s daughter. I also said that an African American custodian, Mr. Aaron Jackson was allegedly threatened with termination by Dr. Roos. Dr. Roos gives the appearance of being an extremely vindictive person. If Dr. Roos does what she has done in the past, during the 2018-2019 school year, Dr. Roos may receive one of her famous “anonymous” phone calls, accusing one or both of these African Americans of physically and/or sexually molesting one or more profoundly mentally handicapped children. As these children cannot speak, this charge will be extremely difficult to disprove. If this happens, my guess is that neither Superintendent Carvalho or Ms. Hernandez Mats will lift a finger to protect these 2 African American employees.
Last year, during school hours, on campus, a very talented, hardworking teacher with over 30 years of experience who is a former winner of the Teacher of the Year award allegedly suffered what appeared to be a nervous breakdown. When I was teaching at NKC, literally every day, I worried that either Dr. Roos or Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) would charge me with totally fabricated career ending charges. I am guessing that is what caused that teachers alleged meltdown. Dr. Roos gives the appearance of deriving enormous pleasure out of creating misery for her staff. She also never seems to miss an opportunity to humiliate her staff. On the last day of school, Dr. Roos allegedly called a MANDATORY faculty meeting. At that meeting every teacher EXCEPT the teacher who had the alleged nervous breakdown was awarded a prize. Ms. Hernandez Mats, BOTH the teacher who suffered the alleged nervous breakdown and the teacher that Dr. Roos illegally ran off campus are UTD members. Does that bother you? Is your attitude that the only thing UTD members are entitled to for their $800 yearly dues is a lousy desk calendar? A few years ago, a former NKC employee (who is still employed at another MDCPS school) was allegedly physically assaulted by Dr. Roos. Does that bother you? Does the fact that this person did not feel safe enough to report the incident to MDCPS officials bother you? This person would be a GREAT person to talk to the NLRB or another investigative body, don’t you agree? Ms. Hernandez Mats, does it bother you that Federal laws that prevent employers from physically assaulting their employees are not being observed in “The People’s Republic” of MDCPS? Would you agree that a body that receives Federal funds also ought to obey Federal laws? Or is everything OK with you, just as long as you continue to be paid your six- figure salary?
During the 2011-2012 school year, NKC attempted to exercise its right under Florida law to convert from a public school to a charter school. In legal case DOAH 13-1492, it was shown that Mr. Carvalho and MDCPS illegally smashed this conversion process. For the last 6 years, now continuing into the 7’th year, Mr. Carvalho has been breaking Florida law by punishing NKC and keeping it under a virtual lockdown. If an investigative body examines MDCPS, I suspect they will find Mr. Carvalho has more skeletons in his closet than there are in a cemetery. I suspect this is the reason Mr. Carvalho was turned down for the number two spot in the Obama Administration’s Department of Education.
The biggest beef that I have with Mr. Carvalho and MDCPS is their seeming willingness to play Russian Roulette with the lives of Profoundly Mentally Retarded children by exposing them to an entirely preventable death from choking to death on their food. As I have covered this topic extensively in nearly every blog entry for over 3 years, I will refer readers to my blog.
I want to end this letter by again stating that “The People’s Republic” of MDCPS is so hopelessly corrupt and owned by Mr. Carvalho that reform from within is impossible. If reform comes to MDCPS, an outside agency will have to come in and clean house, from top to bottom. While this letter is addressed to the UTD president, my REAL targeted audience is Governor Rick Scott (or his successor) Senator Bill Nelson, Mr. Cameron Kasby, Dr. Shirley Johnson Mr. Leonard Pitts, and the newspaper reporters from the New York Times and the Miami Herald
Mr. Carvalho, I am a very patient and persistent man. My goal is to reach a tipping point, where the pain of keeping Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) exceeds the pain of replacing them. Mr. Carvalho, a wise person once said that Pride goeth before a Fall. If you wait too long on taking some long overdue actions, an outside authority may decide that MDCPS is better off without you. May that day come quickly.
Sincerely,
Bill Detzner
Bill Detzner/7722 SW 99 St/ Miami, FL. 33156 billdetzner@bellsouth.net

September 4, 2018
Dear Dr. Johnson,
Hello, my name is Bill Detzner. I retired after 30 years as a Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) teacher. I spent the last 25 years of my career at Neva King Cooper School (NKC) a public school for Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) children. I was also the UTD building steward at NKC for 10 years. You can read about the many terrible things that have been happening at NKC FOR THE LAST SIX YEARS on my blog mdcpsallegations.com I have written to you twice before and you have not responded to my letters. While the staff of NKC are not very happy at all that the NAACP has not responded to our two pleas for help, as a former UTD steward for my school, I have a great deal of sympathy for the position you (Dr. Johnson) are in as both a former vice president of UTD, and as the current president of the Miami NAACP. Dr. Johnson, my guess is that you did not respond to our two pleas for help because you assumed that UTD could, should, and would respond to its members desperate need for help. Dr. Johnson, I am very sorry to have to say that UTD is only a tiny shadow of what it used to be back when you so capably and eloquently served as its vice president. I have sent a total of 18 certified letter to MDCPS officials. Six went to UTD president Karla Hernandez Mats, 6 went to Dr. Larry Feldman, (the school board member that is supposed to serve the NKC school) and 6 letters went to Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. I have received literally not a single word of response to ANY of those 18 certified letters. Not. A. Single. Word. (I have kept all 18 of my green return receipt cards, so I have proof that the people I sent those letters to received them.) Ms. Hernandez Mats is so controlled by Mr. Carvalho that I think she gets permission from him 30 days in advance before she even sneezes. NKC has been in a state of total lockdown for SIX YEARS (now starting the seventh year), ever since Dr. Tracy Roos became the NKC principal, and Mrs. Alicia Fernandez became the assistant principal. NKC has been in lockdown for SIX YEARS because Superintendent Carvalho is very angry at the school for attempting to convert from a public school to a charter school. Both these NKC administrators give the appearance of being very prejudiced against African Americans. I have listed 5 examples below of what appears to be extreme prejudice by BOTH these administrators against African American employees at NKC. Again, all these events are discussed at length in my blog.
1) Last fall, shortly after Hurricane Irma damaged her home, an NKC paraprofessional named Mrs. Green suffered the tragedy of having her daughter murdered, leaving behind a five -year old grandchild, who was in the house at the time of the murder. Although he has not been charged, many people think the husband was responsible for this death. Mrs. Green was granted an emergency leave to bury her daughter and obtain temporary custody of her grandson. On her first day back at work, Mrs. Green crossed paths with Dr. Roos in the hallway. Rather than express her (Dr. Roos) condolences, Dr. Roos wordlessly turned her back on Mrs. Green and walked away. The next day, Mrs. Green spoke very briefly with Dr. Roos. (again, Dr. Roos never expressed her condolences to Mrs. Green.) At NKC, courtesy and respect are a one-way street. Staff are courteous and respectful to administrators. However, FOR SIX YEARS, courtesy and respect are not shown to staff by NKC administrators. Furthermore, showing courtesy and respect to administrators is NOT enough to keep staff out of trouble. NKC administrators expect AND GET extremely meek and deferential treatment from staff. Mrs. Green, wracked by grief, was polite and courteous to Dr. Roos when she (Mrs. Green) spoke to Dr. Roos, but she did not bow and scrape. Dr. Roos then “allegedly” did a very evil thing. (To protect myself legally, I will use the word “allegedly,” even though I am certain that this and other events described later in this letter occurred.) Dr. Roos then summoned one of Mrs. Green’s closest friends, an African American custodian named Mr. Aaron Jackson. Dr. Roos then allegedly ordered Mr. Jackson to deliver a very thinly veiled verbal threat to Mrs. Green. The alleged verbal message was, “Tell Mrs. Green that if she is not happy here [at NKC], Dr. Roos can easily arrange an [involuntary] transfer for her.” MDCPS regulations state that disciplinary matters are a very sensitive and private matter and are to be handled privately between ONLY the affected employee and the administrator. MDCPS regulations also state that even if an employee is given an order he/she believes is illegal, that order is to be carried out, lest the employee be charged with insubordination. Can you imagine the terrible sense of anguish Mr. Jackson must have felt as he delivered this cruel message to one of his closest friends, whose daughter had been brutally murdered just days ago? Dr. Johnson, unless you are unfortunate enough to be an NKC employee, it is difficult to understand the very, very deep sense of fear that staff there have of being fired from their jobs (again, FOR THE LAST SIX YEARS.) If an employee is stupid enough to report a contract violation to UTD, the union will do NOTHING WHATSOEVER, and then turn a blind eye as the employee is retaliated against once the “investigation” (wink, wink) is completed. After Mr. Jackson repeated Dr. Roos thinly veiled threat to her, Mrs. Green had a “Rosa Parks moment,” because she decided she was sick and tired of being disrespected. She then did something that most NKC serfs would call “career suicide.” Mrs. Green reported Dr. Roos to the MDCPS authorities. A meeting was scheduled to discuss Mrs. Greens’ concerns. That meeting was postponed, but Mrs. Green was never informed of this fact. At the end of the school day, Mrs. Green reported to the assistant principal’s office and sat in that empty room for an hour, waiting for a meeting that everyone except her knew had been postponed. While Mrs. Green sat in that empty office, Dr. Roos then allegedly summoned Mr. Jackson to a closed -door meeting in Dr. Roos office. (Staff members saw Mr. Jackson enter and leave that lengthy meeting in Dr. Roos office.) At that meeting, Dr. Roos allegedly threatened Mr. Jackson with immediate termination unless he recanted saying that Dr. Roos had ordered him to make that cruel comment to Mrs. Green. Mr. Jackson, fearing his job was on the line, then recanted saying that Dr. Roos had ordered him to deliver a threat to Mrs. Green. If one is to believe Mr. Jackson’s recantation, then one has to believe that Mr. Jackson, a very kind -hearted person, would willingly subject one of his closest friends to a terribly cruel threat on his own initiative shortly after the brutal murder of his close friend’s daughter. A second meeting was scheduled to address Mrs. Green’s concerns. That meeting was also canceled, and never rescheduled. Apparently, MDCPS did not think the very serious threats made against this 20+ year African American employee after the murder of her daughter were worth even one meeting to discuss! Regrettably, MDCPS was not finished humiliating the African American employees of NKC. A few weeks AFTER this disgraceful event, MDCPS saw fit to nominate Dr. Roos as a candidate for one of its most prestigious awards. Astonishingly, Dr. Roos became a candidate for the Principal of the Year Award!
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT BOTH MRS GREEN AND MR JACKSON ARE IN DANGER OF BEING TERMINATED DURING THE 2018-2019 SCHOOL YEAR. A little background information is needed before I explain how these two fine people could be fired during the present school year. Prior to my retirement, Dr. Roos summoned me to her office for a meeting. She asked me to be seated at a table containing several chairs. I randomly selected a chair and sat down. Dr. Roos gave me a deeply disapproving stare. I knew I had somehow upset Dr. Roos, but I had no idea what my offense was. Dr. Roos continued to give me the evil eye, but as I had no idea what I had done to offend her, I had no idea how to escape her disapproval. After a long and intense stare down, Dr. Roos told me I was sitting in the wrong chair and told me she wanted me to sit in the chair right next to the chair I was seated in! Dr. Roos then “allegedly” told me she suffers from an obsessive- compulsive disorder. (Again, even though Dr. Roos personally told me this, I will use the word “allegedly” to legally protect myself.) Dr. Roos often appears to be sullen, lethargic, in a bad mood, and having very little energy. All of this changes dramatically when Dr. Roos actions have caused one or more staff to be in trouble, even if the staff member is in trouble because Dr. Roos exaggerated or even straight out lied. When Dr. Roos actions have caused a staff member to be in trouble, she seems almost giddy with joy and happiness, and she seems to have an incredible amount of energy. Dr. Roos gives the appearance of being almost addicted to the joy and energy boost she experiences when she has been very nasty to a person, deeply humiliated a person, or caused that person to be at risk for losing his or her job. Perhaps I am wrong here, but Dr. Roos does not appear to be able to control her impulses to be deliberately hateful or to humiliate her staff, tell outright lies in order to cause trouble or even danger of job termination for the NKC staff. Again, my blog tells of many examples of this. Additionally, Dr. Roos gives the appearance of being an extremely vicious and vindictive person. If a staff person has made Dr. Roos look bad, even if it is entirely the fault of Dr. Roos that she (Dr. Roos) appears in a bad light, Dr. Roos allegedly WILL NOT REST UNTIL SHE HAS EVENED THE SCORE. Dr. Roos looked bad as a result of her vicious and cruel actions against both Mrs. Green and Mr. Jackson. In the past, Dr. Roos has waited until the following year to get her revenge so that it doesn’t look like revenge. In the past, Dr. Roos favorite tactic is to receive an “anonymous” phone call, accusing the person she (Dr. Roos) wants to get even with of a very serious offense. While I hope I am wrong, I suspect that sometime during the 2018-2019 school year, Dr. Roos is going to receive an “anonymous” phone call accusing Mrs. Green and/or Mr. Jackson of physically and/or sexually abusing one or more PMH students. As very few of these severely mentally retarded students are able to speak, these charges will be extremely difficult to disprove. IF MRS GRREN OR MR JACKSON FIND THEMSELVES ACCUSED OF THESE OFFENSES, YOU CAN BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THAT NEITHER UTD OR MR CARVALHO WILL LIFT A FINGER TO PROTECT THEM. For this reason, I am hoping that the NAACP will stand up for these two African American employees, because UTD will not.
2) At the end of the school year, it is MANDATORY that every staff member, both teachers and para-professional fill out an anonymous, on-line “staff Satisfaction survey”. This survey asks staff to rate their level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their school site administrators. Prior to the last six years, our previous administrators, principal Dr. Alberto Fernandez and assistant principal Mr. Henny Cristobol received very high approval ratings from the staff, year after year. However, during the last six years, both principal Dr. Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez have been rated, year after year, as among the worst administrators in MDCPS. Last spring, in an effort to raise the horribly low staff satisfaction survey scores, the para-professionals were illegally forbidden to take part in this MANDATORY survey. At NKC, there are almost as many paraprofessionals as there are teachers (due to the fact that teachers need help lifting wheelchair bound students in and out of their wheelchairs to change diapers.) Most of the para-professionals are African American. Only a small percentage of the teachers are African American. In this MANDATORY survey, nearly half of our staff, and almost all our African American staff were illegally forbidden from participating in this MANDATORY survey. Dr. Johnson, the staff of NKC are BEGGING you to PLEASE involve the NAACP in addressing this grievance. What the NKC staff would like the NAACP to do is to partner with NKC in filing a grievance with the US. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights against MDCPS for this egregious civil rights violation. The address of the agency is: U.S. Dept. of Education/ Office for Civil Rights/ Atlanta Office, Southern Division/61 Forsyth St. SW/ Suite 19T10/Atlanta, GA. 30303. The contact person would be Michelle Reid (404) 974-9386 (I have found her to be very helpful) or Arthur Manigault at (404) 974-9376. The UTD steward at NKC is Mr. Brett Darwin Brown. I think you will also find him to be quite helpful. This needs to be done quickly, as civil rights complaints need to be filed within 6 months of the event, or they don’t count. As this event occurred last spring, this complaint will need to be filed as soon as possible.
3) 3) Last spring, the lead secretary for our school retired. Her obvious replacement was an African American woman who has been a MDCPS employee for 30+ years. This woman is an extremely competent, pleasant, hard- working team player who gets along well with everyone. She is punctual and has nearly perfect attendance There is not a single secretarial skill that she cannot perform in a timely fashion. To the astonishment of the entire staff, this exemplary employee was passed over for promotion, and Dr. Roos hired a secretary from outside NKC, which meant this new secretary had to be taught her job. At NKC, African Americans are frequently passed over for promotions by the NKC administrators.
4) The assistant principal of NKC (Mrs. Alicia Fernandez) has a nickname. Her nickname is “Screamer.” She has this nickname because when she is upset with a staff member, (and she gets upset easily, and very often) she screams at them. In my blog, I discuss an incident where Mrs. Alicia Fernandez screamed at me, nonstop, for 20 minutes! On 4 separate occasions during her tirade, I asked her to lower her voice. The first time I made this request, she very briefly lowered her voice, then went right back to screaming at me. The other 3 times I asked her to please lower her voice, she simply ignored me. Every time I tried to say something during her screaming tirade, she just shouted me down. Dr. Johnson, I am a military veteran, and I have to tell you that even during army boot camp, not even army drill sergeants screamed at me as long, as loud, and as disrespectfully as Mrs. Fernandez (AKA “Screamer”) did. When Mrs. Fernandez finally left my classroom after her 20- minute long Screamathon, I felt very deeply humiliated and emasculated. When I reported Mrs. Fernandez temper tantrum to Dr. Roos, Dr. Roos shrugged her shoulders and said, “Well, Bill, you must have done something to upset her!” At no time did either Dr. Roos or Mrs. Fernandez ever offer me an apology for Mrs. Fernandez unprofessional behavior. Dr. Johnson, I have to be very candid with you. As badly as Mrs. Fernandez treated me that day, I got off easy. I am Caucasian, and both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez treat African Americans with even more disrespect and contempt. There is an African American para-professional who has a 20+ year unblemished record at NKC. He is a hard worker who cares deeply about mentally retarded students He has been the victim of Mrs. Fernandez Screamathons at least twice. The second time, after Mrs. Fernandez ignored his numerous requests that she lower her voice, he simply exited her office, saying he would be happy to resume the “discussion” when she had calmed down. He also stated that in the future, he wanted his UTD steward to be present whenever he was called to either administrators office. For this “offense” he was summoned to Dr. Roos office, and BOTH administrators then read him the riot act, and threatened to place a charge of insubordination in his file. At no time has this gentleman ever been offered an apology from either Dr. Roos or Mrs. Fernandez for Mrs. Fernandez unprofessional screaming tirades. Are there other African American NKC staff who have been the victim of one or more of Mrs. Fernandez screaming tirades, but not reported it because they knew UTD would do little or nothing to protect them? I would bet my bottom dollar that this is the case
5) The head custodian of NKC was an African American man with a 30- year unblemished record at MDCPS. Shortly after Dr. Roos became the NKC principal, this man was summoned on numerous occasions to Dr. Roos office and shouted at and spoken to in a very disrespectful way by Dr. Roos. In anger, one day this man said some things that were probably best left unsaid, and he was involuntarily transferred to another school. It does seem very strange that a man can work for 30 years, have not a single blemish on his record, and a few months after Dr. Roos became the principal, he is suddenly ( for the one and only time in his career) a “problem employee.”
Dr. Johnson, if you read my blog, you will be astonished at how badly NKC staff have been treated for SIX YEARS. The NKC staff is VERY, VERY angry, and VERY, VERY frightened. That is not a good combination. You can only mistreat people for so long before they feel they are in a position where they feel they have nothing to lose. Dr. Johnson, the NKC staff feel that there is NOBODY in a position of authority who is willing to help them. To be quite honest, they are not at all happy that the NAACP has not helped them. Several NKC staff have urged me to post the 2 unanswered letters I have sent to the NAACP on my blog in an attempt to prod the NAACP into taking action to help them. As a compromise, I offered to send the NAACP a third letter, and then publish all 3 letters on my blog if the NAACP declined to respond in the near future. Dr. Johnson, NKC is like a rumbling volcano. Smoke is pouring out of the mountaintop, the ground is rumbling and shaking, and there is a strong smell of sulfur in the air. If the NAACP declines to help the NKC staff, perhaps some of the wealthy donors who make generous financial contributions might become less enthusiastic about contributing to the wonderful organization that the NAACP has always been.
Here are the actions that the NKC staff are hoping the NAACP will take on their behalf. 1) Would the NAACP be willing to write a letter to Superintendent Carvalho, asking that both principal Tracy Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez be removed from their posts at NKC immediately? 2) Would the NAACP be willing to partner with the NKC staff in filing a civil rights grievance with the civil rights office of the Dept. of Education? 3) If an investigation reveals wrongdoing by either NKC administrator serious enough to merit dismissal as MDCPS employees, would the NAACP be willing to insist that this be done? 4) Superintendent Carvalho gives the appearance of being a very vicious and vindictive man. The NKC staff has a well- founded fear that if Mr. Carvalho replaces the two present NKC administrators, he will replace them with new administrators who are as bad or even worse than the present ones. Given the fact that in legal case DOAH 13-1492, it was recommended that both principal Dr. Alberto Fernandez and assistant principal Henny Cristobol be returned to NKC, and given the fact that MDCPS previously rated Dr. Fernandez as the most effective administrator in the district, and given the fact that both previous NKC administrators enjoyed high approval rating year after year on both the staff and parent satisfaction surveys, would the NAACP be willing to ask Superintendent Carvalho to restore the previous NKC administrators to their posts? 5) Would the NAACP be willing to ask that the National Labor Relations Board be called in to do a complete audit of MDCPS to determine how well civil rights laws are being enforced? 6) Would the NAACP be willing to send a copy of any correspondence they send to any party to either the NKC union steward (Mr. Darwin Brett Brown), or myself as a courtesy, so we can report how things are going to NKC members? God Bless you and Thank You Dr. Johnson for any help you and the NAACP are able to provide in these areas.
Respectfully,
Bill Detzner
Bill Detzner/7722 S.W. 99 St. Miami, Fl. 33156 billdetzner@bellsouth.net mdcpsallegations.com