January 10, 2022
Hello Commissioner Corcoran and Mr. Carvalho. My name is Bill Detzner. I am going to post this email on my blog(mdcpsallegations.com) I am writing this email not because I have any hope that the two of you will act to protect Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) children, but to leave a paper trail, so that “when the bad stuff hits the fan,” neither one of you can claim you weren’t fully appraised of the abuses that occurred during your watch. This is a follow up to the email I sent both of you yesterday (“Is the Nation’s Fourth Largest School District Plagued With Systemic Racism?”)
The embattled Neva King Cooper (NKC) principal Dr. Tracy Roos is currently being investigated for TWO egregious violations. The first violation is Dr. Roos alleged physical assault of African American custodian Sabrina Crawley Cross. It is also alleged that Dr. roos pressured NKC staff who did NOT witness this alleged physical assault on Ms. Crawley Cross to write false statements absolving Dr. Roos of blame. The second charge Dr. Roos is being investigated for is her alleged refusal to allow a Hispanic employee, Mr. Javier Ruiz Lopez to see a doctor after Mr. Ruiz Lopez was injured on the job while performing his duties. During her troubled ten -year tenure at NKC, Dr. Roos has been investigated over and over and over by MDCPS, and in the face of overwhelming evidence of her guilt, let off the hook time after time by the corrupt MDCPS internal investigations. The NKC staff, parents, and children have seen this movie over and over and over and we know how these present two incidents are going to end. Dr. Roos will once again be let off the hook and her alleged physical assaults against NKC African American staff and African American Profoundly Mentally Handicapped children will continue.
The NKC stakeholders are taking the following actions as low-level staffers from both of your offices might, or might not read this email. 1) We are going to enlist the help of both BLM and the NAACP. Given the fac that neither one of you have lifted a finger to protect PMH children from alleged physical assault by Dr. Roos, these two organizations are going to clean up your mess for you. Hopefully, they will “tear out a new one” for both of you. They have both the political and financial resources to ensure that highly unflattering stories about both of you appear in the media. Hopefully, the end result will be that both of you get fired and are disgraced. Mr. Carvalho, you will soon become the Los Angeles (LA) superintendent. You have ruled MDCPS with an iron fist. You are greatly feared, but not respected. You are obeyed without question, due to the climate of intense fear you seem to have deliberately cultivated. Mr. Carvalho, what is going to happen when you are no longer the MDCPS superintendent? You will still be despised, but no longer feared. When BLM and the NAACP start printing very unflattering stories about you, and the school board begins taking heat, do you think the school board is going to back you up, or given the fact that they know “where all the bodies are buried” will they give you up to save their own skins?
You will hopefully be attacked from day one by the LA press (or possibly before even your first day on the job in LA) The NKC stakeholders are going to contact both the LA Times and small independent LA media regarding your performance here in Miami. We will concentrate most of our efforts on the small , independent LA media, as you probably do not yet have a stranglehold on what gets published about you in LA. Mr. Carvalho, if small, independent LA media begins publishing the things on my blog, the LA Times will have to either follow suit, or risk being scooped. If your strategy is to get a legal gag order against me, you are too late. Many other people now have complete copies of my blog. If I am given a gag order, I will fully comply. Several other people will continue to publish about the ten year, on-going rape of NKC.
I used to think it was only in NKC that African American mentally retarded students and African American and Hispanic staff were routinely allegedly physically assaulted by MDCPS administrators, but now I see that a 7-year-old African American mentally retarded girl has been allegedly physically assaulted by a MDCPS employee, and just like at NKC, the MDCPS investigative unit has attempted to sweep things under the rug.
Al, when you are in LA, and the BLM and the NAACP look up the mother of the African American profoundly mentally handicapped child who was allegedly physically assaulted at NKC, if MDCPS and/or Child Protective Services silenced this parent by threatening to place the child in a foster home unless the mother kept quiet about the affair, do you think this woman will continue to keep your dirty little secret? How about the two African American bus drivers who witnessed this alleged assault and were allegedly pressured into keeping silent? If MDCPS used threats to silence them, do you suppose they will keep your dirty little secret, when they know that BLM and the NAACP will protect them from retaliation by MDCPS? Al, do you suppose that might possibly open the floodgates? Do you suppose this might lead to MANY more African American and Hispanic students and staff coming forward to tell how they too were physically assaulted by MDCPS employees, while the MDCPS investigative units worked to threaten and silence them? Al, are you familiar with the term “house of cards?” Do you know what that term means? Perhaps an example will illustrate the meaning of this phrase.
During the 1980’s, the Houston school district, like many other urban school districts was plagued by falling graduation rates and achievement test scores. Then a miracle school superintendent appeared on the scene. His name was Dr. Rod Paige. Houston schools soon announced astonishing, hard to believe gains in both achievement test scores and graduation rates. They called it “The Houston Miracle.” Dr. Paige became an educational hero and was selected by President Bush to become the Secretary of Education. Just like you, Al, Dr. Paige was greatly feared, but not respected. When Dr. Paige relocated to Washington, D.C., the fear he imposed was gone, but not the widespread disgust he had cultivated. Al, do you remember what happened to Dr. Paige? Some Houston employees contacted a t.v. show called Sixty Minutes and they did an explosive piece on him that showed that “the Houston Miracle” was achieved by cooking the books. Dr. Paige quickly resigned his post in disgrace. Al, when you relocate to Los Angeles, do you suppose you might suffer a similar fate? (Hint: I am going to post this on my blog, and several independent LA media are being contacted, as a low-level staffer from your office MIGHT or might not take the time to read this email.)
Al, when BLM and the NAACP start causing unflattering stories about you to appear in the media, people are going to want to see evidence to back up those claims. Without supportive evidence, the narrative falls apart. So, the question is: Do the NKC stakeholders have the evidence to back up their claims? Let’s take the case of Dr. Roos allegedly cursing during a Zoom lesson. Although myself and at least one parent sent written reports to the MDCPS authorities (Office of Professional Standards), nothing was done. However, due to the fact that MDCPS has the only copy of that Zoom tape, it means MDCPS is off the hook. Am I right about this, Al? Well, no, MDCPS is NOT off the hook. You see, Al, the NKC stakeholders have copies (note that this is plural) of this Zoom tape. Al, do you suppose the NKC stakeholders also have a great deal of evidence to support the other claims of wrongdoing by Dr. Roos? Well, Al, if you knew how much evidence we have against MDCPS, you might not sleep very well at night. Al, it is entirely possible that your superintendent’s job in LA may either not happen at all, or be very short lived. Al, what happens if due to negative publicity, either the Florida Bureau of Investigation or the Federal Bureau of Investigation begins an investigation on you? There are rumors that you had an extramarital affair with a Miami Herald reporter. Perhaps that was an isolated incident. If it was not, if you had additional affairs, there is no telling what will remain hidden, and what will come to light, should you become the target of an investigation.
Al, what the terrified and bullied parents and staff of NKC would REALLY, REALLY like is an end to the ten-year persecution you have inflicted on NKC after you broke several state laws to illegally smash NKC’s attempt to investigate changing from a public school to a charter school. Your flagrant lawbreaking was brought out in DOAH 13-1492. Al, during your one and only visit to NKC after you illegally smashed the conversion attempt, you made the following statement: “This is a MDCPS, this will always be a MDCPS, and if anyone wants to change that, they are going to have to come through me.” Al, there are witnesses who are still at NKC who were present when you made that statement. Al, this may be difficult for you to understand, but African American parents of profoundly mentally retarded students and African American NKC staff are very, very tired of allegedly being physically assaulted by Dr. Roos, and then having MDCPS clear her of all charges in a sham investigation (or no investigation at all.)
NKC stakeholders are seeking two actions to to address this ten-year rape of the school. The first is the dismissal of Dr. Roos as a MDCPS employee, if probable cause is found. The NKC stakeholders will NOT be satisfied if Dr. Roos is merely shuffled off to another post, even if that new post is one where she has no contact with children. The second action NKC stakeholders would like to see is to have Dr. Alberto Fernandez restored as the NKC principal. Al, as you give the appearance of being a very vindictive man, the NKC stakeholders fear you intend to punish NKC in perpetuity, for the “crime” of pursuing the supposedly legal option of converting to a charter school. Appointing Dr. Fernandez back to the position you illegally removed him from would send a clear signal to NKC that the ten-year rape of NKC is finally over.
Al, do you get the idea that Dr. Roos has played you like a fiddle? Do you get the idea that the reason she keeps screwing up over and over again is because she has no respect for either you or your authority? Anyone can read my blog, and my guess is that far more people than you know have read this blog and lost all respect for you. Al, this blog would not even exist if it weren’t for the many, many screwups of Dr. Roos. Dr. Roos is the person who is making you look bad, and ruining your reputation. Some people are wondering if the reason you have taken no action against Dr. Roos during a ten-year span is because she is blackmailing you.
Mr. Corcoran, you have told me that as the Florida Commissioner of Education, you lack the authority to prevent a profoundly mentally retarded African American child from being allegedly physically assaulted by the principal of that school. Dick, if that statement is true, what justification is there for you to hold that position? Is your job merely to collect an obscenely generous salary, while catering to the whims and desires of the educational for-profit lobbyists? Dick, you served as a Florida legislator for several years. A Florida law was crafted that was so deceitful that it could have been made in North Korea. That law sternly states that Florida public school administrators are NOT allowed to interfere should a public school elect to convert to a charter school. The law then lays out all protected activities that are allowed, and all activities public school officials are forbidden to take to smash the conversion attempt. WHAT THE LAW DOES NOT DO IS TO PROVIDE ANY PENALTIES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL OFFICIALS WHO BREAK THIS LAW. Dick, there is a term for this kind of law. This is called a “smoke and mirrors law.” It allows Florida legislators to give a sneaky monopoly to for profit companies to create charter schools, while denying this opportunity to public schools. Dick, I have heard it said that you are not the sharpest tool in the shed, but even YOU should be able to understand that a law that has no consequences for breaking that law is just a make-believe law. Dick, when you were a Florida legislator, did you vote for, or write, or sponsor this pathetic law?
As a result of this flim-flam, make believe law, Mr. Henny Cristobol, the assistant principal of NKC, and one of the finest educators and human beings I have ever met was hounded out of his career as a Florida educator. Florida schools lost a very fine educator as a result of this shameful law.
Dick, you say you are helpless to prevent the physical abuse of an African American profoundly mentally handicapped child. Let’s be honest, Dick. Is the reason you are unable to help this child due to the fact that my limited financial resources prevent me from making a political contribution to the right people? Dick, if I HAD been able to make a generous financial contribution, would you then have taken action to protect this extremely vulnerable child? Dick, if you are unable to protect this child, would you advise me to contact Nikki Fried or Charlie Crist, the Democratic candidates for the Governor’s Office? Dick, do you suppose those two people might be more motivated than you are to protect a severely mentally retarded African American child? Dick, you are not presently motivated to help this child. If BLM and the NAACP cause a number of unflattering stories to appear about you in the media, do you suppose that might increase your pathetic lack of motivation to help this African American severely mentally retarded child?
Just so you know: The NKC stakeholders are NOT looking for encouraging words from one or both of you. TELLING the NKC stakeholders you are investigating the matter will not work. TERMINATING Dr. Roos is what the NKC stakeholders are looking for (if cause is found.)
Al, you had no trouble very quickly terminating a school principal a few years ago for the crime of dirty bathrooms. The NKC stakeholders feel that Dr. Roos numerous egregious violations over a ten-year period far exceed dirty bathrooms.
Respectfully,
Bill Detzner billdetzner@bellsouth.net