July 4, 2019 Letter To Governor DeSantis

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.