Month: August 2019

Hello Governor DeSantis. Commissioner Corcoran, Superintendent Carvalho, 9 school board members, and Ms. Hernandez Mats,

My name is Bill Detzner. Today is August 30, 2019. My blog is mdcpsallegations.com. I am writing this letter so that when this story becomes too big to sweep under the carpet and hits the press,, none of you will be able to bray that you did not know what continues to happen at Neva King Coper School (NKC) I want to strongly emphasize that the SEVEN YEAR lockdown and punishment of NKC that continues to this day appears to be retaliation for engaging in the (supposedly) protected activity of exploring conversion to a charter school.

Recently, Governor DeSantis chose to conduct a sham investigation, allowing Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) to investigate itself as to whether or not Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) cheated on the yearly achievement test given to profoundly mentally handicapped children. This test is the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA). Although during the time Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez were the NKC administrators, I as an NKC teacher received financial awards for two years that are given ONLY for outstanding student performance (something that had never happened prior to Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez becoming the NKC administrators,) the people who conducted this sham investigation told me that there had been not even a slight improvement in student performance after Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) became the NKC administrators. This is like telling me that it is both simultaneously over 100 degrees in temperature, and snowing a terrible blizzard. Obviously, both of these things cannot simultaneously be true.

I have been told that Dr. Roos is also being “investigated” for allegedly physically abusing a Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) student. I have no more confidence in this “investigation” than I do in the cheating make believe “investigation.”

Both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) give the impression of being people who are unable to restrain their destructive urges. One of two things are true. These two administrators either knowingly and willfully cheated on the FAA, or they did not cheat on the FAA. Cheating on the FAA is nearly the most egregious violation a MDCPS employee can commit. This offense is so serious that an employee who is caught doing this can be terminated and lose their pension. IF the MDCPS officials falsified their findings of cheating by these two people, they sent a very clear signal that MDCPS “has their back” no matter how serious their lawbreaking is. If MDCPS lied to protect these two people, then two people who have exhibited very poor impulse control in the past have been given a green light and a virtual blank check by MDCPS to not only continue their wrongdoing, but to accelerate it.

A normal administrator, having just undergone a possibly career ending investigation would have become more cautious in their actions, at least for a brief period of time. As You Already Know (AYAK), this was not the case for the two NKC administrators. Only days after (perhaps undeservedly) being absolved of an extremely egregious charge, Dr. Roos (and I suspect Mrs. Fernandez as well) summoned Mr. Ray Morrison for an illegal interrogation as to whether or not he was in communication with me (Bill Detzner) in his off duty hours. I have discussed that in my previous (unanswered) letter to you.

I am sending you this latest letter to complain and notify you about Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) latest alleged persecution (perhaps rape is a more honest word) of an NKC serf/staff member. This offense occurred on Monday, August 26, 2019. It is important to note that this latest violation occurred on just the sixth day of the school year. Dr. Roos had, in violation of the contract, ordered a serf/staff member to move his/her classroom to a different classroom after the school year had already begun.. An African American serf/staff member made the PRIVATE observation to a coworker that Dr. Roos was in violation of the contract for taking this action. This PRIVATE comment was allegedly overheard by one of the school “snitches” and reported to Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer), who relayed this ‘horrendous crime” to Dr. Roos. Dr. Roos then summoned this African American serf/staff member for a conference. At that conference, Dr. Roos allegedly informed this African American serf/staff member that he/she “NEEDS TO BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD.” Is it just me, or does that sound like an extremely racist comment to make to an African American employee??? That seems to me to be in the same spirit as asking this African American employee to move to the back of the bus. I am also puzzled by the fact that crime boss Al Carvalho has a slogan that says “See something, say something.” So, which is it, Dr. Roos? Can you understand how this poor serf/staff member might be confused when she hears one slogan from crime boss Al Carvalho and another contradictory slogan from you? Regrettably, Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez were just getting started. The two administrators then allegedly attempted to persuade other NKC serfs/staff to write up this African American employee for various contract violations. When the staff declined to file false charges against their friend and co worker, Dr. Roos allegedly began to berate, bully, threaten, and insult the staff for their “failure” to file false charges against their coworker. This may come as a bit of a surprise to the people this letter is addressed to,, but school administrators attempting to threaten and bully their subordinates into filing false charges against a coworker is generally not recognized as one of the hallmarks of effective leaders.

This follows a familiar path of illegal activities by these two lawless administrators. This is not the first time Dr. Roos has allegedly attempted to browbeat, humiliate, and threaten staff into filing false charges against an employee Dr. Roos does not like. As my blog explained at length, at a faculty meeting (with a captive audience) Dr. Roos deteriorated into a prolonged and uncontrolled crying jag when the staff declined to file false charges of child abuse against the late Richard Dones (a UTD member). AYAK two thirds of the staff signed a petition asking that Dr. Roos be disciplined for this offense. AYAK, there was no response whatsoever from MDCPS to this petition. UTD also did nothing whatsoever in response to requests for help from the UTD members of NKC. AYAK, Dr. Roos second uncontrollable crying jag came in response to a t-shirt that some teachers wore to school saying “Straight Outta Neva.” Although contractually, the serfs/staff who wore this shirt to school broke no rules and did not need to ask Dr. Roos permission to create or wear these t-shirts, the serfs/staff were nevertheless required to attend individual conferences with Dr. Roos (and probably Mrs. Fernandez as well) where they were scolded and threatened for engaging in this legal and utterly harmless activity. AYAK, the serfs/staff of NKC appealed to UTD for help in this matter and were given the same cold stony silence that the staff got from MDCPS in response to Dr. Roos first uncontrollable crying jag. AYAK, the person who created this t-shirt, a UTD member. was retaliated against so badly by Dr. Roos for the entire next year that he/she transferred to another school. After this person had transferred to another school, he/she made the mistake of assuming that as a taxpayer and a MDCPS employee he/she had the right to visit the NKC staff AFTER the children had left school for the day. At NKC, the children leave school for the day at 2:05 P.M. The period from 2:05 PM to 3:05 P.M. is the time period when the entire staff has their planning time. This was the time period when this former serf/staff member attempted to visit his/her former co-workers at NKC. What this poor soul failed to realize is that Dr. Roos LITERALLY considers NKC to be her house. I am not speaking rhetorically here. I am speaking literally. (If you don’t believe me, you can ask Dr. Roos.) This person followed all of the rules for a person visiting a school (signing in, etc. ) and was informed by the school security person that Dr. Roos had allegedly told the security guard to order this person off the NKC grounds, and to call the school police if this order was not obeyed immediately. Although this person asked for UTD’s help in this matter, UTD did nothing. (as usual) AYAK, this same person, on a different occasion, made the mistake of stating in a private conversation to a peer during his/her lunchbreak that in his/her opinion, the FAA was not a good test to administer to PMH students. Regrettably, a “snitch” was present and ran off to inform Dr. Roos of this “blasphemy”. Dr. Roos then allegedly summoned the poor serf to her office DURING HIS/HER LUNCH BREAK and SCREAMED that this serf was never to utter this blasphemy ever again. AYAK, although this poor serf appealed to UTD for help in this matter, UTD could not be bothered to lift a finger in defense of these numerous egregious contract violations

Ms. Hernandez Mats, do you suppose that the reason both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) feel free to rape the serfs/staff of NKC over and over again is because no matter how frequent and egregious those contract violations are, you will do NOTHING WHATSOEVER in response? I have sent you NINE (9) unanswered certified letters regarding the numerous egregious contract violations that occur at NKC. Another very brave serf/staff UTD member of NKC has had numerous in-depth conversations with you on the crisis at NKC. You have also blown this person off. Maybe it’s just me, Ms. Hernandez Mats, but I’m starting to suspect that the serfs/staff of NKC are expecting a little bit more for their $800 dollars per year union dues than a calendar. Ms. Hernandez Mats, this may come as a bit of a surprise to you, but Labor Law forbids the physical assault that Dr. Roos allegedly committed against an NKC staff member. It also forbids Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) from going on prolonged screaming jags (20 minutes long in my case) against serfs/ staff. Ms. Hernandez Mats, did you know that the people who pay your SIX FIGURE salary are employees and not prison inmates? For that reason, it is inexcusable for you to have given the two NKC prison wardens (I mean administrators) a free pass FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS!

I am also deeply troubled by the fact that over and over again Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) contract violations seem to be against African Americans and Hispanics. In addition to the African American who was allegedly told he/she needed to be seen and not heard, Mr. Morrison, an African American was allegedly illegally questioned as to whether he was speaking to me in his off duty hours. Mrs. Green and Mr. Aaron Jackson, both African Americans were also allegedly targeted. Mrs. Green was allegedly threatened with an involuntary transfer to another school JUST DAYS AFTER HER DAUGHTER WAS MURDERED. Mr. Jackson was allegedly threatened with immediate termination unless he made a false statement saying he had NOT been told by Dr. Roos to tell Mrs. Green that she was in danger of being involuntarily transferred to another school. Also, although MDCPS set up TWO meetings with Mrs. Green to discuss her threat of being involuntarily transferred to another school, MDCPS cancelled BOTH of those meetings. To this day, Mrs. Green has never been given the opportunity to discuss the disgraceful treatment she received from MDCPS. As an additional slap in the face, shortly after this inexcusable event, MDCPS saw fit to nominate Dr. Roos as a candidate for the most prestigious award a principal can receive. That award is the Principal of the Year award. If Dr. Roos is one of the highest performing principals of MDCPS, one can only imagine what the underperforming principals must be like The PMH student who was allegedly physically abused by Dr. Roos is African American. Many African American employees refer to NKC as a “Plantation.” A large percentage of the African American parents of NKC children are highly dissatisfied with both Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez. Many of these parents are friends and neighbors of the African American staff members of NKC, and well versed on what occurs on a daily basis at NKC. Although it is MANDATORY that ALL employees participate in the annual staff satisfaction survey. Dr. Roos allegedly forbade the paraprofessionals of the staff (at NKC, paraprofessionals are nearly 50% of the staff) from taking this survey. The paraprofessionals of our staff are almost entirely either African Americans or Hispanics. The former teacher of NKC who was illegally ordered off of campus (because Dr. Roos regards NKC as LITERALLY “her” house) is Hispanic. I am guessing that the FEDERAL laws that forbid racial discrimination don’t mean much in MDCPS.

Superintendent Carvalho, would it be fair and accurate to surmise that you not only condone but lavishly reward racism by MDCPS school site administrators?? I ask this question because mere days after Dr. Roos allegedly illegally threatened a grieving African American grandmother whose daughter was brutally murdered with an involuntary transfer to another school, MDCPS saw fit to nominate Dr. Roos as a Principal of the Year nominee. This is the highest award a principal can receive. If your defense is that you were not the person who made the nomination, why did you not in your capacity as school superintendent order that this nomination be withdrawn? Why has MDCPS cancelled not one, but two appointments with Mrs. Green to discuss this intolerable behavior by Dr. Roos? WHY HAS MDCPS TO THIS DAY NOT MET WITH MRS GREEN TO DISCUSS HER CONCERNS? Why have you allowed Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez to remain as the NKC administrators, even though you have known for many years (I have sent you 10 unanswered certified letters over a 4 year period) that they have engaged in numerous activities that give the appearance of being blatantly racist?

Superintendent Carvalho, is it also possible that you are also a person who bears a striking resemblance to the late Timothy McVeigh? Mr. McVeigh was the evil monster who bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Among Mr. McVeigh’s victims were one or more classroom(s) of kindergarten children. When Mr. McVeigh was asked how he could justify such an evil action, he merely shrugged his shoulders and called these innocent children “collateral damage.” In my June 2015 (unanswered) letter (included in my blog) I stated that what gives the appearance of being your horrific retaliation against the staff of NKC for their attempt to convert to a charter school had caused the staff to give up all attempts to convert to a charter school. You knew over four years ago that your attempt to permanently kill NKC’s conversion attempt was successful. In that same letter, I very clearly spelled out the dangers of one or more NKC student choking to death on their food as a result of what appears to be Dr. Roos decision to use choking events as an excuse to get rid of staff who had incurred her (or Mrs. Fernandez) displeasure. In short, FOR OVER FOUR YEARS you have known that A) you permanently smashed NKC’s desire to convert to a charter school and B) Dr. Roos was needlessly exposing NKC children to a violent and easily preventable choking death. I think I have a possible motive for why a creature such as yourself would allow profoundly mentally handicapped children to be exposed to this entirely preventable danger for FOUR YEARS AND CONTINUING TO THE PRESENT DAY!. Everybody knows the parents of NKC children were wildly supportive of the conversion attempt. I am wondering if you are attempting to use the children of NKC as hostages and examples and a warning to the other parents of MDCPS students who might also be considering attempting to convert to a charter school. Is it possible that you are attempting to send a warning to other parents who are attempting the (supposedly) legally protected activity of exploring conversion to a charter school? I can think of no other reason why a superintendent would knowingly and willingly expose the most fragile and vulnerable children of all (i.e. the children of NKC) to such a danger. On the day that you abandoned your quest to become the czar of New York City schools, you made the following statement: “I just don’t know how to break a promise to a child. That has weighed on me over the last 24 hours like nothing has weighed on me before.” Mr. Carvalho, your soothing words contrast sharply with your actions.

Many years ago, Rod Paige was the superintendent of Houston schools. During that time period, the published statistics for the school district showed an ASTONISHING increase in student achievement on the annual achievement test and an equally ASTONISHING decrease in the dropout rate among students. It became known as “the Houston Miracle.” Superintendent Paige’s impressive statistics caught the eye of President Bush, and Mr. Paige became the U.S Secretary of Education. When it was revealed that Superintendent Paige’s astonishing statistics were possible only because he had “cooked the books,” the “Houston Miracle” became known as the “Houston Mirage”, and Secretary Paige hastily resigned in disgrace. He was nothing but a fraud and a humbug. Even a two bit hustler like Secretary Paige can look impressive if he’s willing to “cook the books” to do so.

Mr. Carvalho, I mention this because you appear to also bear a striking resemblance to Superintendent Paige. A few years ago, you released a report on the level of school violence in MDCPS. If your figures had been accurate, MDCPS would have had nearly the lowest total number of incidents of violence in the entire United States. When your figures were revealed to be “wildly inaccurate” (to put it charitably) MDCPS became the laughing stock of the nation. I am wondering, Mr. Carvalho, if the astonishing progress MDCPS has made over the years in the yearly achievement test is not also “wildly inaccurate.” During the time you have been the superintendent, schools that had been receiving failing grades for many years are now all receiving passing grades. If these figures are accurate, I salute this outstanding accomplishment. My skepticism stems from the fact of what I observed at NKC. I taught there for 25 years, so I know what profoundly mentally handicapped children can and cannot do. When Dr. Alberto Fernandez was the NKC principal, a baseline of several years existed of the very poor performance of NKC students on the yearly achievement test. When Dr. Roos became the NKC principal, student performance on this test skyrocketed to the point where (for the first time ever)teachers were receiving cash bonuses for the outstanding performance of NKC students on this test. When an investigation was done by the Florida Inspector General, the finding was that no cheating had occurred. However, it was NOT the Inspector General’s Office that did the actual investigation.THE INVESTIGATION WAS DONE BY MDCPS. The authorities of MDCPS are now on record as stating that their investigation revealed no cheating. Mr. Carvalho, what do you think is going to happen if Governor DeSantis orders a new investigation of cheating on the FAA at NKC, and it is done by an independent agency (as opposed to MDCPS?) Is it possible that an independent agency will determine that cheating DID occur? If that happens, it will be obvious that MDCPS lied. That may lead to a suspicion that MDCPS is not to be trusted and might have cheated on the yearly achievement tests at other schools. If Governor DeSantis orders a county wide audit of MDCPS, what kind of skeletons do you think he will find? Do you suppose one or more downtown bureaucrats who know “where the bodies are buried” and have been too frightened to come forward might now be brave enough to step forward? Does that scenario keep you up at night? Is it possible that “the emperor has no clothes?” If that happens, you, the former nationwide Superintendent of the Year, the author of the “Miami Miracle” may be revealed to be the author of the “Miami Mirage”, and nothing but a fraud and a humbug. The taxpayers of Miami might then come to the conclusion that even a two bit hustler like crime boss Al Carvalho can look good if he’s willing to “cook the books” to do so.

I want to quote from my last unanswered letter to all of you, as I feel this issue DESPERATELY needs to be addressed. Here, then, is that quote. “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, [from any of the people this letter is addressed to] no matter how frequent and egregious your violations of the law are.

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 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.” I am hoping that the people this letter is addressed to are able to see that the contract violations of Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) are becoming both more frequent and more egregious. Do you want to solve the problem now, or do you want to wait until there is a full scale revolt among the staff and parents of the children of NKC and it’s front page news in the Miami newspapers?

It is time for me to ‘Make the Big Ask’ of the various people this letter is addressed to. Governor DeSantis, I am asking you to tell Superintendent Carvalho that he must immediately relieve both Dr. Roos (who gives the appearance of suffering from very poor mental health) and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) of their duties at NKC. As Superintendent Carvalho gives the impression of being an extremely vindictive man, the staff of NKC are worried that Mr. Carvalho will replace Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) with administrators as bad or worse than the present administrators. For this reason, the NKC staff would like for you to very strongly suggest to Mr. Carvalho that the present NKC administrators be replaced by Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol. I am also asking that the investigation of possible cheating on the Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA) annual achievement test by Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez be reopened, by an agency entirely independent of MDCPS. The person that I spoke to at the Office of the Inspector General let the cat out of the bag and told me that it was NOT the Inspector General but MDCPS that investigated itself. I am asking that all 6 people I listed be interviewed. Those people are: Adrian Sanchez ( former assistant principal of NKC) Julie Besherat, Luz Morales, Rick Massa, Mary Surca, and Dr. Diana Morales. I am asking that the answer sheets from all of the years that Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez have been the NKC administrators be examined for frequent erasure marks. Perhaps the Florida Bureau of Investigation would be a good agency to tap for this investigation. If Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez are found to have cheated on this test, I am asking that the maximum penalty allowed by the law be imposed upon them. If cheating is found to have occurred on the FAA at NKC,, it would show that the MDCPS people who did this investigation lied, and perhaps have also been dishonest in the reporting of the annual achievement tests district wide. If this is the case, I am asking that an independent agency do a district wide audit of MDCPS. If widespread cheating is found to have occurred, I ask that Superintendent Carvalho be relieved of his duties and the district be placed under state control until such time as the district is in compliance with Florida rules for administering and scoring that test. I also ask that if MDCPS is found to have violated anti-discriminatory policies for minorities, that state funding be reduced and the district be placed under state control until the district is in compliance with state and Federal laws. Mr. Carvalho, I am asking you to immediately relieve the present NKC administrators and replace them with Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol. I am also asking the nine school board members and Ms. Hernandez Mats to make this same request of Mr. Carvalho If Mr. Carvalho declines to take this action, I am asking that the above named people ask Governor DeSantis to relieve Mr. Carvalho of his duties as the school superintendent.

I have begun to advertise the crisis at NKC on social media. I am hoping the public will bring some badly needed pressure to cause the people this letter is addressed to do the right thing for the profoundly mentally handicapped students of NKC. Finally, if you get a gag order against me, there are other people who will continue my blog.

Sincerely,

Bill Detzner

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

Dear Governor DeSantis,

Hello, my name is Bill Detzner. Since December 2018, I have sent you 4-5 certified letters detailing the serious violations of Federal laws, (such as alleged physical abuse of severely mentally handicapped children by Dr. Tracy Roos.) I have received two responses to my letters, both of which give the appearance of being an attempt by you (Governor DeSantis) to avoid carrying out your Constitutionally MANDATED responsibility to protect Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) children from being physically abused by the school principal, or dying a violent and easily preventable death of choking to death on the food they eat at school. (I’ll discuss that later on in this letter.)

Before I go any further, I want to wish you and your family a happy Fourth of July. As I am a military veteran, this is a special day for me.

Secondly, I want to apologize for the fact that this is a hand written letter. I am currently traveling and I do not have access to computer. If you have trouble reading my handwriting, this letter will be posted on my blog (mdcpsallegations.com) as soon as I return home.

On June 17, 2019, I received a very disappointing email from Randy Kosec (Fl. Dept of Ed.) Governor’s Assignment Case # 687,906 EOG 000457196 Corrflow#1292694. (I will discuss that email later on in this letter.) As I feel the crisis at Neva King Cooper (NKC) School is extremely serious, I do not wish to wait until I return home and have access to a computer to respond to Mr. Kosec’s email.

Governor DeSantis, here is how I believe you would have responded if I had been one of the top contributors to your election campaign as Florida’s governor. I am guessing that either yourself or the Education Commissioner would have promptly phoned or emailed Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) superintendent Alberto Carvalho and told him that if he did not remove NKC principal Dr. Tracy Roos and assistant principal Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) from their posts during the 2 month summer break before the start of the new school year, the governor would have no choice but to relieve Supt. Carvalho of his duties for failing to provide a safe school environment for PMH students. (At this point, myself and the NKC stakeholders are only asking for the removal of the 2 NKC administrators, even though we believe the termination of Superintendent Carvalho is RICHLY deserved, and long overdue. ) Governor, As You Already Know (A.Y.A.K.) the governor has a DUTY to remove Florida government employees who are derelict in their duties. (More on that later.) You would cite the following reasons for your demand that the 2 present NKC administrators be immediately terminated. All of the following reasons have been fully explained both in my numerous previous letters to you and in my blog. 1) Dr. Roos has allegedly physically assaulted BOTH an African American PMH student and a staff member of NKC. 2) BOTH Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez have allegedly cheated on the yearly high stakes achievement test (the Florida Alternate Assessment – FAA) that is given to PMH children. This offense is punishable by termination of employment, loss of pension, and permanent revocation of Florida teaching licenses. 3) BOTH Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez have allegedly violated Federal laws that prevent discrimination against African American staff. Dr. Roos has allegedly forbidden para-professionals, who are largely African American, from participating in the MANDATORY annual staff satisfaction survey that is to be filled out by ALL employees. Dr. Roos has allegedly carried out her threat to file allegedly deliberately false charges against one or more African American parents when those parents went to the authorities to complain that Dr. Roos had allegedly physically abused their PMH child. Other African American staff (detailed in my blog) who have been allegedly discriminated against by either Dr. Roos or Mrs. Fernandez include LaTanya Stephenson, Ray Morrison, Mrs. Green, Aaron Jackson, and Jerry Terry. Additionally, Mrs. Fernandez allegedly knowingly and willfully filed false charges against Mr. Rick Massa for cheating on the FAA. As I said in my blog, a teacher who is still an employee of MDCPS observed this happening, but is too terrified of being terminated if he/she reports the incident, as this teacher will never have tenure. IF the Governor had the political courage to offer this teacher protection from retaliation he/she would be willing to testify. Mrs. Fernandez then allegedly perjured herself in her deposition made under oath in the resulting lawsuit Mr. Massa filed. AS You Already Know (AYAK) Mrs. Fernandez allegedly screams at staff when she becomes upset with them. In my case, Mrs. Fernandez screamed at me nonstop for 20 minutes. It was far longer and far more vicious and degrading than any dressing down I ever got from a drill sergeant during boot camp in the army. AYAK, Mrs. Fernandez is allegedly FAR more vicious and humiliating when her screaming jag is directed at an African American staff member. (i.e. Ray Morrison on at least 2 occasions) As I am Caucasion, Mrs. Fernandez screaming jag was limited to a mere 20 minutes. African Americans endure far longer and far more hateful tirades at the hands of Mrs. Fernandez. (Allegedly, of course.)

At this time, I want to address the 2 very disappointing and very dishonest replies I have received in response to my numerous letters to the governor. The first response said that the ONLY issue the state was willing to investigate was the alleged cheating on the FAA. As you already know, for many years PRIOR to Dr. Roos, the FAA had been given to our students and a baseline existed of their very poor performance, year after year. When Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez became the NKC administrators, student performance DRAMATICALLY increased to the point where for the first time ever, staff for 2 years were awarded financial bonuses for the outstanding performance of our PMH students. AYAK, I BEGGED you NOT to allow MDCPS to conduct the investigation, as they are allegedly a very corrupt school district with a conflict of interest, as they would be sanctioned if they found the NKC administrators guilty of cheating on the FAA test. AYAK, the MDCPS district WAS allegedly allowed to conduct that investigation without supervision, and (surprise, surprise) they found that no cheating had occurred. Although I submitted a list of 6 people to interview for this investigation, only 2 of these people were questioned. Furthermore, the MDCPS investigators were very careful to ask questions that would exonerate them. For example, the two people who were questioned were asked if they observed STAFF cheating on the FAA. My accusation was that the ADMINISTRATORS had at the conclusion of the test allegedly erased some of the incorrect penciled in answers on the answer sheets and then penciled in the correct answers. AYAK, when I brought my concerns about the investigation to the authorities, I was curtly told that the investigation was closed and would not be reopened. Governor DeSantis, a reasonable person might come to the conclusion that not only is MDCPS openly and illegally turning a blind eye to cheating on the statewide yearly achievement tests, but that YOU as Governor, and the Florida education bureaucrats are also turning a blind eye to this cheating, perhaps to fool the public into believing that Florida public schools are performing at a higher level than they actually are.

The other disappointing and dishonest response I received was an email from Randy Kosec. (I will include that email in its entirety in my blog.) I want to include 3 incredibly dishonest sentences from that email. 1) “Florida statute gives public school districts the authority to operate with local control on matters related to employment. Concerns like yours are typically handled best at the district level.” AYAK, although MDCPS rules state that if a district employee is accused of physically or sexually abusing a student, for the protection of the child, it is MANDATORY that A) the accused person be removed from the campus B) an investigation be done to determine the validity of the accusation. In the case of Dr. Roos, although 2 witnesses filed a formal complaint of child abuse against Dr. Roos, ( a third witness of this abuse is allegedly too fearful of retaliation to report what he/she observed.) Dr. Roos was NOT removed from campus, and NO investigation was done. AYAK, Dr. Roos allegedly told me (Bill Detzner) that she suffers from an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. AYAK, in my previous letters to you I have said Dr. Roos also seems to suffer from an inability to suppress her destructive impulses (such as allegedly physically assaulting BOTH a PMH student and an NKC staff member.) AYAK, for 4 (FOUR) years now, the PMH children of NKC appear to be at risk for choking to death on their food due to Dr. Roos allegedly making the decision to use choking incidents as a weapon to file potentially career ending charges against staff she appears to dislike.

Governor DeSantis, are you saying that if MDCPS knowingly and willfully abdicates its responsibility to provide a safe school environment for the most vulnerable and at risk students (i.e. PMH students), you as Florida’s governor cannot intervene to protect children who literally cannot speak for themselves? ARE YOU SERIOUS??? ARE YOU SERIOUS??? ARE YOU SERIOUS???

This flies in the face of 2 recent actions you took. A) You relieved Broward Sheriff Scot Israel (an elected official) from his post for nonperformance of his duties WHICH PUT BROWARD SCHOOL CHILDREN AT RISK FOR HARM OR EVEN DEATH. B) Recently, the mayor of a Florida city allegedly fired a gun at Florida law enforcement officers. The mayor was of couse an elected official . You used the power granted to you as the governor of Florida to remove this man from his post. I suspect that your reason for taking this action was that you feared this out of control mayor posed a danger to harm or even kill the residents of that city. Governor DeSantis, can you please explain to the readers of my blog how you can have the power to take these 2 actions, but NOT have the power to protect the most vulnerable Florida citizens of all??? (i.e. PMH children)

2) “You have taken the appropriate steps by sharing your concerns with Superintendent Carvalho and the members of the Miami Dade County School Board.” Governor DeSantis, does this statement sound as patronizing and as pathetic to you as it does to me? AYAK, I have sent 10 unanswered certified letters to Superintendent Carvalho, 9 unanswered certified letters to Larry Feldman, the school board member who represents NKC, 9 unanswered certified letters to United Teachers of Dade union president Karla Hernandez Mats, and at least 2 unanswered certified letters to every other MDCPS school board member. Even after all of these letters, the abuse of BOTH students and staff by BOTH Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez got WORSE, not better. After all these letters were sent, MDCPS saw fit to nominate Dr. Roos for the most prestigious award available to a school principal. (the Principal of the Year Award)!!!

Governor DeSantis, do you REALLY believe all those letters I wrote resulted in even a tiny improvement in the behavior of either Dr. Roos or Mrs. Fernandez? Governor DeSantis, do you REALLY believe that if I send an 11’th certified letter asking Superintendent Carvalho to relieve Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez of their duties that Superintendent Carvalho will take this action?

Governor DeSantis, I want to return to the hypothetical phone call either yourself or Commissioner Corcoran makes on my behalf as a hypothetical top donor to your election fund. After you or Mr. Corcoran insisted that the present 2 NKC administrators be relieved from their posts, you would very strongly encourage Superintendent Carvalho to reinstate Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol as the NKC administrators. You would cite DOAH 13-1492 as showing that these 2 outstanding administrators were illegally and unlawfully removed from their posts solely for engaging in the (supposedly) legally protected activity of exploring converting NKC from a public school to a charter school. You would cite the fact that year after year, on both parent and staff satisfaction surveys, both of these administrators achieved some of the highest ratings in the entire district. You would cite the fact that at one point Dr. Fernandez was ranked as the most effective administrator in MDCPS. You would also cite the deep ties these 2 administrators have cultivated over the years as evidenced by the yearly golf tournament that raised money to buy physical therapy equipment for our students, and the 6 figure check a Fortune Five Hundred Company (Ryder) wrote to put Smartboards in every classroom in the school. You would also cite the threatening statement Superintendent Carvalho made during the one and only visit he ever made to NKC, shortly after he illegally smashed NKC’s attempt to convert to a charter school. You would conclude that the best way to ease the well founded fears the NKC staff have that Superintendent Carvalho will merely continue his 7 (SEVEN) year punishment of NKC by replacing Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez with administrators who are as bad or even worse than they are is to reinstate Dr. Alberto Fernandez as the NKC principal, and Mr. Henny Cristobol as the NKC assistant principal.

If Superintendent Carvalho is worried that Dr. Alberto Fernandez and/or Mr. Henny Cristobol will resume their efforts to convert NKC to a charter school, you can tell Mr. Carvalho that both of these administrators and the terrified NKC staff understand that this supposedly “protected” activity is merely a very bad joke. The NKC staff understands that any school in MDCPS stupid enough to engage in this suicidal activity (attempting to convert to a charter school) will be stomped into the ground and neither the governor or the Florida Legislature will lift a finger to protect them.

Governor DeSantis, shortly after I sent you my May 22, 2019 letter, I confided in a friend who is an attorney with over 30 years of lobbying the Florida Legislature. When I told this man I was appealing to you as the father of young children to intervene on behalf of PMH children, he threw back his head and roared with laughter. I switched gears and cited the many legal reasons I felt the governor was legally obligated to intervene. This caused him to laugh even harder. He held up his hand to silence me. He then told me I was a well meaning but incredibly naïve man. He said the governor and his staff would ask themselves only one question. That all important question is: How much has this person contributed to the governor’s election fund? If the answer to that question was little or nothing, I would be completely ignored, even if the governor had a mandatory obligation to take action. This man said, “Bill, the Governor’s kids will attend an expensive private school, so if 1, 10, or even 100 of your PMH children choke to death on their food, the Governor will sleep like a baby at night, provided he believes he won’t be blamed for those deaths.”

So Governor DeSantis, which of the two of us did a better job of predicting your response to my pleas for help for PMH children? Was it me, or was it my friend?

Governor DeSantis, in fairness to you, you have never verbally stated that unless I sent a sizable check to your election campaign fund, you would stand by and possibly allow one or more PMH children to die a horrible and entirely preventable death of choking on the food they eat at NKC, or more alleged incidents of physical abuse at the hands of Dr. Roos, the school principal. Having said that, a reasonable person who has read my blog and your astonishingly lack of action to protect PMH children from harm or even death, even though you are legally mandated to provide such protection would come to the conclusion that you are willing to expose PMH children to serious abuse and even death unless you get a sizable financial contribution to your reelection campaign.

Governor DeSantis, if you were a Florida voter, would YOU vote for such a person to remain the governor of Florida? When you run for reelection,if you bill yourself as the “Pay if you want to play,” or the “Pass the buck” candidate, I doubt that Fact Check will dispute that claim.

Let’s be honest, Governor. If you are not willing to perform an action you are legally obligated to perform unless you receive a sizable financial contribution from me, is that a “political donation,” or is it a bribe? But wait, it gets even worse than that. AYAK, there are no charter schools available for PMH students. If the parents of NKC children keep their children out of school due to their fear that school principal Dr. Roos may allegedly physically abuse them, or play Russian Roulette with their childrens’ lives by using those children as “bait” to trap teachers when those children begin to choke on their food at school, they already know that Dr. Roos will not hesitate to call child protective services and have those children removed from their homes and put into foster homes [if the parents keep their children out of school at NKC] Some Florida foster homes expose children to both physical and sexual abuse. Under these conditions, are Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez school administrators or terrorists? (as well as bullies and thugs) Under these conditions, aren’t both the parents and children of NKC hostages? If you, Governor DeSantis, will not execute your lawful DUTY to protect these parents and children unless you FIRST receive a sizable “donation” to your reelection fund, is this a “political contribution” or is it a ransom?

Governor DeSantis, if a magic genie were to appear and tell me that I could make just one wish , for anything I wanted and it would be granted, I know what my wish would be. My wish would be that Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol be reinstated as the NKC administrators effective the first day of the 2019-2020 school year. My lobbyist friend is correct. I am a very naïve man. Had I known that a “political contribution” was needed to gain PMH children the protection they are supposed to be guaranteed by law, I would have gladly made that “donation” many years ago. If I were a single man, I would sell my house and donate 100% of the proceeds of that sale to ransom the lives of the PMH children of NKC. The problem is that I am a married man and my wife and I own the house jointly. Furthermore, my wife has severe scoliosis and is a semi-invalid, and it just is not fair to subject her to this degree of hardship. As I am a teacher [retired] and not a politician, I have no idea what sum of money I need to “donate” in order to motivate you to carry out your legally mandated DUTY to protect Florida’s most fragile and vulnerable citizens. My plan is to run this by your career education bureaucrat, Randy Kosec. Perhaps he can come up with a figure for me.

Governor DeSantis, I recently read that several Florida cities have been victimized by computer hackers who plant malware into city computers. That malware renders the cities’ computers inoperable. The hackers then demand that unless a ransom is quickly paid, the city data will be permanently lost, condemning some hospital patients to horrific and easily preventable deaths. The hackers often settle for a ransom far LESS than their original demand. The hackers do this NOT because they have a small amount of decency or compassion in them. They do this because they realize their victims have limited financial resources and they realize that a smaller ransom is better than no ransom at all. They also demand that the ransom be paid in Bitcoin, as it is hard to trace. I am mentioning this story about these computer hackers for two reasons. First, Governor DeSantis, the readers of my blog (and perhaps a majority of Florida voters) may come to the conclusion that YOU, as the florida Governor, bear a striking resemblance to these computer hackers. Second, when you and your political operatives come up with a financial figure to be donated by myself and several NKC parents, please keep in mind that all of us are of limited financial means and please keep in mind that a more modest donation to your reelection campaign is better than no donation at all. Also, if you would prefer that our “political donation” be made in Bitcoin, please let us know, and we will see what we can do.

Governor DeSantis, you also appear to bear a striking resemblance to Officer Peterson, the cowardly policeman who allowed a lone gunman to allegedly shoot 34 people, 17 of them fatally. Although Officer Peterson is held in nearly universal contempt by Florida citizens, both the U.S. Supreme Court and disgraced former Broward Sheriff Scott Israel maintain that Officer Peterson was within his rights to allegedly stand by idly and do nothing as 34 defenseless people were mowed down by a lone gunman. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the police do NOT have a duty to protect the public from harm. Disgraced and dismissed former Broward Sheriff Scott Israel made it police department policy that police MAY (not shall) intervene if that intervention might result in the police officer being exposed to danger. When Officer Peterson exercised his option to excuse himself from danger, he changed from a police officer to a highly paid costumed character. I say these things NOT to excuse Officer Peterson’s reprehensible lack of action or courage. I say these things because YOU, Governor DeSantis, appear to bear a striking resemblance to disgraced former Officer Peterson. AYAK, the Florida Constitution does NOT say that if the actions or lack of actions of Florida public officials (such as Superintendent Carvalho) place Florida citizens at risk the governor MAY take actions that protect those citizens. Governor DeSantis, if you continue to allow the unsafe conditions at NKC to exist, and harm comes to a PMH student, or an NKC staff member, the public may come to the conclusion that your lack of action was motivated by a lack of a political financial contribution to your reelection campaign. In that event, the public may decide that Officer Peterson’s cowardice was noble in comparison to your lack of action on behalf of PMH students.

Will Rogers once quipped that “America has the finest politicians that money can buy.”Another astute person has observed that “It’s not an election, it’s an auction.” Governor, myself, several NKC parents, and other NKC stakeholders have come up with a way to possibly raise a very large sum of money for your reelection campaign. We are going to open an account on the internet entity “Go Fund Me.” My blog address will be given and we will explain that we are trying to raise enough money to motivate Governor DeSantis to take action to insure the safety of the PMH children of NKC. As we are hoping the site will go viral, I am going to contact the Florida Democratic Party in the hopes they will give this fundraising page as much publicity as possible. If a gag order is issued against me, several NKC stakeholders have stepped forward to keep both my blog and the fundraising page active and on-going.

When NKc parents become visibly active in this campaign, there is a possibility that Dr. Roos and/or Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) may contact child protective services and have the children of these parents involuntarily placed inrto foster homes. I am telling you this so that (May God Forbid It) if this happens you will not be able to bray to the press that you did not know this was going to happen. In the bad old days, when “Uppity African Americans” became vocal in insisting that their Constitutional rights be respected, the Ku Klux Klan would terrify them into silence with a burning cross on their lawn. Thankfully, the KKK has lost most of its power but Child Protective Services has been a very handy replacement for Dr. Roos and Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) AYAK, many African American NKC staff refer to that unhappy place as a “Plantation,” and AYAK, the racial discontent among both African American NKC staff and NKC African American parents has been at a very high boil for a long time. AYAK, Dr. Roos appears to greatly enjoy bullying her staff and she appears to have both very poor judgement and impulse control. GOVERNOR, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN IF DR. ROOS MAKES THE MISTAKE OF ALLEGEDLY PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING ANOTHER AFRICAN AMERTICAN STUDENT OR AN AFRICAN AMERICAN STAFF MEMBER? (Hint: Some African Americans suffer a significant amount of loss of esteem among their peers if they fail to physically respond to a physical assault. This loss of esteem is especially acute if the alleged attacker is a white female.)

Governor, AYAK, Ray Morrison has already been warned that if Mrs. Fernandez (Screamer) engages in another “Screamathon” against him, the only response that he has to prevent a very dangerous escalation (i.e. walking away from Mrs. Fernandez until she is able to address him in a non-screaming, professional manner) will not be tolerated. WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN THE NEXT TIME MRS FERNANDEZ LOSES IT?

Governor DeSantis, everyone knows that when the 2019 legislative session ended, you had a great deal of free time on your hands. You had so much free time that you went on a several day junket to Israel. How do you think the voters are going to react if they discover that you had plenty of time to take a [possibly all expenses paid] junket to Israel, but you did not have enough time to insure the safety of Florida’s most fragile and vulnerable citizens, even though you had a 2 month long golden opportunity to return Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol to their posts as the NKC administrators at the break between the end of the 2018-2019 school year and the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year?

Governor DeSantis, here are a few questions I hope you will consider. 1) Do the PMH children of NKC have a right to be safe from an entirely preventable choking death and physical abuse at the hands of the present NKC administrators? 2) Do the AfricanAmerican NKC staff have the right to expect that the Federal laws that protect them from discrimination at the hands of the present 2 NKC administrators will be enforced? 3) Will the laws that define the punishment given to administrators who cheat on the yearly achievement test be enforced? 4) Do the NKC staff have the right to expect that the Federal laws that protect them from physical abuse at the hands of their employer will be enforced? 5) Do NKC staff have the right to expect that the Federal laws that protect them from being allegedly shouted at by Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) will be enforced? 6) Do the parents of NKC children have the right to expect that the Federal laws that protect their children from alleged physical assault by Dr. Roos will be enforced? 7) If the MDCPS district violates state and/or Federal laws, will that result in a partial loss of state funding, and state supervision until the state is satisfied that MDCPS is in compliance with the law? 8) Does the MDCPS policy that states it has “a zero tolerance for bullying” apply to just students and staff, or does it also apply to school site administrators and Superintendent Carvalho as well? 9) Does “Accountability” apply only to MDCPS staff, or does it also apply to school site administrators , school board members, and Superintendent Carvalho? 10) Governor DeSantis, are you the Governor for ALL Floridians, (including Florida’s most fragile and vulnerable citizens) or are you the Governor only for the wealthy people who contribute large sums of money to your election campaign? 11) Governor DeSantis, if you had a PMH son or daughter, would you want that child to be enrolled in Neva King Cooper School? 12) Have the bureaucratic snafus that allowed the Parkland massacre to occur been resolved, or could one or more Florida children die a violent and easily preventable death (such as choking to death on their food at NKC?)

Governor DeSantis, at this time you still have the luxury of preventing both a political catastrophe for yourself and the death or physical abuse of one or more Neva King Cooper children or staff. Today is July 6. You still have over a month to make the desperately needed changes I have suggested in this letter. If you fail to do so, I fear you will suffer a “Michael Dukakis Moment.” I wish you the best, my friend, and I hope you decide to do the right thing.

Respectfully,

Bill Detzner

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

P.S. Governor, this may be a hard thing for you to understand (as a very powerful, privileged and wealthy man) but the peasants who are the parents of NKC students love their children as deeply as you love your children.

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