Fourth Email To PTA President For MDCPS Nancy Lawther, Oct. 31, 2018

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.