March 28, 2020
Dear Mr. Feldman,
Hello. My name is Bill Detzner. I have sent you (as the school board member who is SUPPOSED to represent Neva King Cooper School (NKC)) NINE certified letters via USPS. I have heard NOT A SINGLE WORD OF RESPONSE FROM YOU to those nine (9) certified letters.
I am asking that you do three things: 1) Forward this email to Mr. Carvalho. 2) Send a written recommendation to Mr. Carvalho recommending that NEITHER Dr. Tracy Roos or Mrs. Alicia Fernandez (Screamer) be returned to their posts as the NKC administrators for the 2020-2021 school year. 3) In that written recommendation to Mr. Carvalho ask that Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol be restored to their posts as the NKC administrators for the 2020-2021 school year. Mr. Feldman, if you have read my blog (mdcpsallegations.com), or read the NINE (9) certified letters I have sent you, you are aware that the parents and staff of NKC have the perception that FOR EIGHT YEARS NKC HAS BEEN PUNISHED AND UNDER LOCKDOWN FOR THE “CRIME” OF ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT TO A CHARTER SCHOOL.
The NKC stakeholders (students, parents, and staff) have the well founded fear that Mr. Carvalho intends to punish THE SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED STUDENTS OF NKC, the NKC parents, and the NKC staff IN PERPETUITY. The NKC stakeholders, in light of the statement Mr. Carvalho made in his only visit to the NKC campus shortly after he illegally smashed NKC’s charter school conversion attempt (see my blog and DOAH 13-1492) fear that even if Mr. Carvalho replaces the two present NKC administrators, he will replace them with administrators as bad or even worse than the present administrators, and merely continue to punish the NKC stakeholders under new and different administrators.
If Mr. Carvalho wants to send a message that the NKC stakeholders will no longer be punished and under an EIGHT YEAR LOCKDOWN, the best way to send that message would be to reinstate Dr. Alberto Fernandez and Mr. Henny Cristobol as the NKC administrators.
While I hope I am wrong, my belief is that Mr. Carvalho will retain one or both of the present NKC administrators for the 2020-2021 school year. Therefore, in June, I will send a SECOND letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, the Federal Inspector General of the Department of Education in Washington DC, Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran, Governor Ron DeSantis, and other relevant parties asking that NKC receive these long overdue reforms. I will include a copy of this email with those letters.
As you know, Dr. Roos has allegedly PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED BOTH A SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT AND AN NKC STAFF MEMBER. You also know of the fact that BOTH NKC African American parents and NKC African American staff refer to that unhappy place as a “Plantation.” You also know that the NKC staff refer to assistant principal Alicia Fernandez as “Screamer.” You also know why the assistant principal has earned this nickname.
Vladimir Lenin once said that “The object of Terror is Terror.” As Mr. Carvalho has terrorized SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED STUDENTS, their parents, and NKC staff FOR EIGHT YEARS, Mr. Carvalho is probably aware that no MDCPS will ever again attempt the supposedly legally protected option of converting to a charter school for the remainder of Mr. Carvalho’s reign as the Supreme Leader of the nation’s fourth largest school district.
As Mr. Carvalho is aware, many NKC parents were enthusiastic supporters of NKC’s charter school conversion attempt. Rightly or wrongly, many NKC parents feel that Mr. Carvalho is recklessly and needlessly risking the safety and even the lives of SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN to punish parents for their support of NKC’s charter school conversion attempt. Mr. Feldman, if you have bothered to read my blog, or the NINE certified letters I have sent you, you are well aware of the daily danger NKC children face of choking to death on their breakfasts and lunches, and the fear that parents have that there may be one or more additional alleged physical assaults of their children by NKC principal Dr. Roos. Many NKC parents have the feeling that Superintendent Carvalho has a figurative loaded gun pressed against the heads of NKC children. They feel that Superintendent Carvalho is giving them (NKC parents) an unspoken ultimatum. That unspoken ultimatum appears to be, “Which do you value more? The safety (or even the lives) of your children, or conversion to a charter school?”
If Mr. Carvalho is offering this choice, please inform Mr. Carvalho that NKC parents value the lives of their children FAR, FAR more than they value conversion to a charter school. As I have stated to Mr. Carvalho on numerous occasions in the past, he (Mr. Carvalho) has permanently and irrevocably broken NKC’s charter school aspirations. As I have also stated to Mr. Carvalho on numerous occasions in the past, “Only a sadist continues to beat a dog after its spirit is broken.” (Again, EIGHT YEARS is an incredibly long time to keep a school under lockdown and punishment, especially given the fact that every NKC staff person who supported charter school conversion has either retired or transferred to another school.)
Mr. Feldman, many NKC parents feel that you have done an incredibly poor job of representing the interests of NKC children. Mr. Feldman, many NKC parents are DEEPLY disappointed that you have failed for many years to protect the severely mentally retarded students of NKC and speak up about the alleged HORRENDOUS abuses committed by BOTH present NKC administrators. Many NKC parents feel that you represent the interests of Superintendent Carvalho and school vendors, and NOT the interests of the stakeholders of NKC, or the ninth district.
Many NKC parents are DEEPLY FEARFUL that your heir apparent (Dr. Nancy Lawther) will be as bad or even worse at representing the interests of NKC children . I make this statement because when Dr. Lawther was the PTA president of MDCPS, I sent her NUMEROUS emails informing her of the alleged physical assault of an NKC student by Dr. Roos. I asked that Dr. Lawther recommend to Mr. Carvalho that an investigation by MDCPS be done of this alleged incident. Dr. Lawther never took this action. She alsop declined to respond to the numerous emails I sent her. For this reason, prior to the upcoming school board election, I am going to publish my numeroue emails to Dr. Lawther, both on my website,and the website of an independent blogger, who reaches an audience of one million readers per month. If I am given a gag order, I have a friend who is much more eloquent than I am. This friend has volunteered to continue to post about the NKC tragedy if I am shut down.
Mr. Feldman, many NKC children have compromised immune systems. The irony for these children is that when the Corona virus pandemic is over, the danger to NKC children will INCREASE, because their parents will then be FORCED to return their severely mentally retarded children to the “care” of a school principal who gives the appearance of being mentally unstable. As you know, there are no charter schools for severely mentally retarded children..
Once again, “Only a sadist continues to beat a dog after its spirit is completely broken.”
Respectfully,
Bill Detzner
P.S. Only a sadist continues to beat a dog after its spirit is completely broken. MDCPS has a slogan that says, “It has a zero tolerance for bullying.” Does that policy also apply to Superintendent Alberto Carvalho?
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