April 30, 2022
My name is Bill Detzner. I am writing to the two of you (Commissioner of Education Corcoran and MDCPS school board member Ms. Santos) in regard to the TEN YEAR on-going rape of the profoundly mentally retarded students, parents, and staff of Neva King Cooper (NKC) School by the nation’s fourth largest school district. There are two illegal activities being practiced by MDCPS against NKC. The first illegal activity is the ten year on-going punishment of NKC for pursuing the supposedly legally protected activity of exploring converting from a public school to a charter school. DOAH 13-1492 explores in great detail the illegal actions Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) took to crush this conversion attempt. The second illegal activity is the THREE alleged physical assaults by the WHITE school principal (Dr. Tracy Roos) against a minority student and two minority staff. It is deeply disheartening to know that 67 years after the Brown vs, Board of Education decision, the nation’s fourth largest school district sees fit to allow THREE incidents of alleged PHYSICAL ASSAULT by a WHITE school principal against a minority student and minority staff to go unpunished. I will post this email on my blog (mdcpsallegations.com). Mr. Corcoran and Ms. Santos, I am asking that due to the fact that there is an allegation of Dr. Roos physically assaulting a Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (PMH) African American student (Tadarian Williams) and two allegations of Dr. Roos physically assaulting minority staff (a Hispanic social worker and Sabrina Crawley Cross, an African American custodian) that Dr. Roos be IMMEDIATELY and PERMANENTLY removed from the NKC campus. Ms. Santos, I am asking you to share this email with Superintendent Dotres and ask him to immediately and permanently remove Dr. Roos from the NKC campus. As a show of good faith that MDCPS is finally abandoning the TEN YEAR persecution of NKC for its attempt to convert to a charter school, it would be very helpful for Dr. Alberto Fernandez to be reinstated as the NKC principal.
If Dr. Dotres fails to immediately remove Dr. Roos as the NKC principal, I am asking Ms. Santos to contact both Commissioner Corcoran and Governor Ron DeSantis and ask these two people to immediately relieve Superintendent Dotres and NKC principal Dr. Tracy Roos of their duties for failure to protect PMH minority students, the parents of those students, and minority NKC staff from the threat of physical assault by Dr. Roos. Ms. Santos, I am also asking that you and the entire MDCPS school board draft a memo to Superintendent Dotres urging him to take this immediate action, and informing Dr. Dotres that the school board will petition the state of Florida to remove Dr. Dotres from his post if he fails to perform this action.
Commissioner Corcoran, I am asking you to forward this email to Governor DeSantis and urge him to remove Dr. Dotres from his post if he fails to protect minority Profoundly Mentally Handicapped African American children and minority NKC staff by immediately removing Dr. Roos as the NKC principal.
It is interesting to note that when MDCPS illegally smashed NKC’s conversion attempt to a charter school, BOTH NKC administrators were very abruptly relieved of their duties, in the middle of the school year, because MDCPS alleged those two administrators had threatened DISCIPLINARY punishment (as opposed to the THREE alleged physical assaults of Dr. Roos) against staff who opposed the conversion attempt. It is curious that MDCPS could very quickly take this action against the two administrators who attempted to convert NKC to a charter school, and NOT remove Dr. Roos after THREE allegations of physical assault. Also, when principal Dr. Alberto Fernandez and assistant principal Mr. Henny Cristobol were removed as administrators from the campus, NOT ONE NKC STAFF MEMBER STEPPED FORWARD TO SAY THAT EITHER ADMINISTRATOR HAD ATTEMPTED TO PRESSURE THEM IN ANY WAY TO SUPPORT THE CONVERSION ATTEMPT.
As I have been petitioning both Florida education bureaucrats and MDCPS for SIX YEARS regarding this problem and as none of you have had the decency and professionalism to even acknowledge receipt of my certified letters (although I have heard from Ms. Santos a few times) I have come to the conclusion that the soulless bureaucrats I am dealing with give the appearance of being both racists (by allowing these incidents to go unpunished) and people who are morally bankrupt. There is simply no other explanation for people who force minority parents to relinquish control of their minority severely mentally retarded children to the “care” of a WHITE principal who gives the appearance of being deeply hateful and prejudiced against both African American and Hispanic students, parents, and staff. While I hope my impression is wrong, this is the impression I had of Dr. Roos for the 3 years Dr. Roos was my principal.
I know the drill. You people are the most arrogant, responsible to no one (other than the lobbyists/vendors who supply the money for your reelection campaigns) shells of human beings I have ever met. This email will be met with the usual wall of silence and no protection offered to the long- suffering stakeholders of NKC.
Do either one of you know who Benjamin Crump is? Mr. Crump is arguably the most famous civil rights attorney in the US. He is the attorney who represented both the Trayvon Martin case and the George Floyd case. Mr. Crump has an office three miles from my house. I bring this up because I have contacted Mr. Crump regarding MDCPS seeming attempt to sweep WHITE principal Dr. Roos alleged physical assault against African American custodian Sabrina Crawley Cross under the carpet. I will also bring to Mr. Crump’s attention the possibility that Dr. Roos may have pressured NKC staff who did NOT witness this alleged physical assault into writing statements absolving Dr. Roos of blame for this alleged physical assault. I will also inform Mr. Crump that in violation of FEDERAL law, it was someone from NKC and NOT Ms. Sabrina Crawley Cross who filled out the paperwork involving the workman’s compensation papers that allowed Ms. Crawley Cross to get the workman’s compensation medical care she needed as a result of this alleged physical assault.
Ms. Santos, do you think Mr. Crump has enough power to get a very firm and positive response from the Miami African American media, churches, and the NAACP should he choose to? You arrogant people give the appearance of being unwilling to provide any redress whatsoever to the NKC stakeholders, but I will bet my bottom dollar that you will soon be dancing to whatever tune Mr. Crump decides to play of his fiddle. I have heard it said that Mr. Crump DOES NOT PLAY, ( but my guess is that the two of you are too arrogant to take this into consideration.)
I have a friend who is a semi-retired attorney who has lobbied the Florida legislature for over 30 years. This man is on a first name basis with all the Florida legislators who matter. He has told me that everything I have done for the last six years has been a complete waste of my time. He said the only way to achieve my goal of getting Dr. Roos TERMINATED (not transferred but terminated) as a MDCPS employee is to personally speak with Governor DeSantis. He has told me the way to do this is to donate large sums of money to the Governor’s reelection campaign. Eventually, I will become one of the largest contributors to the governor’s reelection campaign. My attorney friend has cautioned me that this is going to be VERY, VERY expensive for me. My wife and I have no children of our own. We both worked at NKC. (I worked there for25 years) and we consider the nearly helpless and defenseless severely mentally retarded minority children as family. I AM WILLING TO SPEND EVERY PENNY I OWN TO RANSOM THESE DEFENSELESS INNOCENT MINORITY CHILDREN FROM FURTHER PHYSICAL ASSAULT AT THE HANDS OF WHITE PRINCIPAL DR TRACY ROOS.
Mr. Corcoran and Ms. Santos, my guess is that you are thinking I am bluffing here and neither one of you will do anything whatsoever to help me. My attorney friend has promised to introduce me to all the right people, provided I donate generously to various campaigns. Mr. Corcoran, the reason I have included you in many emails is so when I finally meet Governor DeSantis, I will be able to show that you were fully aware of this multi year punishment of the students, parents, and staff of NKC, and never so much as acknowledged receipt of my letters and emails. Dick, when the Governor wins reelection, do you worry about him very quietly showing you the door when he sees how poorly you have served him as the Commissioner of Education?
Ms. Santos, if you fail to contact Governor DeSantis and/or Commissioner of Education Corcoran should Dr. Dotres decide to shirk his duty to protect severely mentally retarded minority students, do you suppose Mr. Crump might be able to generate enough negative publicity about you to destroy any future political aspirations you may have?
When I meet Governor DeSantis, I will bring up the point that Florida law currently provides no punishment for school districts that unlawfully retaliate against public schools that attempt to convert from public schools to charter schools. When the Governor wins reelection, what if he introduces legislation to provide ROBUST protections for MDCPS that attempt this conversion process? If that happens, MDCPS will very quickly suffer a rush for the exits by its captive schools.
At NKC, we crunched the numbers before we decided to attempt to convert from a public school to a charter school. By cutting out the HUGE MDCPS bureaucracy, NKC would have enjoyed a 1.8 MILLION dollar surplus at the end of the school year as a charter school. This means that charter schools will be able to offer teachers both higher salaries and far less bureaucratic red tape. Ms. Santos, if the fear of being illegally punished for attempting to convert to a charter school is removed, in a few years, there will be almost nothing left of MDCPS. My guess is that Governor DeSantis may like this idea.
Here is another frightening thing for you to consider, Ms. Santos. What if I am able to convince the Governor, after the election, to do a systemic investigation of MDCPS? Just a few of the many areas that might prove interesting would be a thorough investigation of the Office of Professional Standards (OPS). It would be interesting to see how many employees who referred matters to the OPS suffered retaliation for those referrals. It might be interesting to compare and contrast the number of administrators referred versus other MDCPS employees referred. It would be interesting to see what percentage of administrators were absolved, or not investigated at all as opposed to other MDCPS employees. Many MDCPS employees (myself included) accuse the OPS of having the dual purpose of sweeping wrongdoing by administrators under the carpet and then retaliating against those who brought the matter to the OPS. Given the fact that employees can be very easily dismissed, other questions that might be asked include how many employees claim to have been physically assaulted (or sexually assaulted) by an administrator, but failed to report the incident(s) due to fear of reprisal, termination of employment, and fear that OPS exists to merely sweep administrator violations under the carpet, and then to retaliate against the employees who lodged those complaints?
Other questions might be to ask the mother of Tadarian Williams if MDCPS officials and/or child protective services threatened her with loss of her child if she pressed the matter of the alleged physical abuse of her severely mentally retarded African American child by Dr. Roos. The two bus aides who provided written testimony as to what they observed Dr. Roos do that day could be interviewed to see if MDCPS pressured them into dropping the matter.
In regards to the alleged cheating (see my blog) by Dr. Roos and assistant principal Mrs. Alicia Fernandez on the FAA, the bubbled in with pencil answer sheets could be checked to see if there are frequent erasure marks , which could indicate that incorrect answers were erased, and replaced with correct answers, for which these two administrators received a financial bonus. As MDCPS and not the state of Florida conducted the investigation of alleged cheating on the FAA, the MDCPS officials who conducted that investigation could be interviewed to see if they falsified their findings.
Mr. Rick Massa, who is now retired, and therefore able to speak freely, was accused of cheating on the FAA (see my blog) A teacher who did not have tenure, and could easily be terminated, observed Mr. Massa inform assistant principal Alicia Fernandez that he (Mr. Massa) received testing materials with the correct answers already penciled in in the test booklet, but not the answer sheet. Ms. Fernandez then told Mr. Massa that was not a problem and ordered him to begin using those test materials to test his students. She (Alicia Fernandez) then entered Mr. Massa’s classroom, observed him testing his students with the correct answers already penciled in the test booklet, but not the answer sheet (by the rookie teacher who used those materials before he turned them over to Mr. Massa) and filed potentially career ending charges against Mr. Massa for “cheating” on that test. When Mr. Massa filed a court case for this action, the nontenured teacher who observed Mr. Massa being deliberately framed declined to testify on his behalf, fearing termination of her employment. This teacher is still a MDCPS employee. If she is offered protection against retaliation from the Gestapo OPS, she would probably be very eager to tell her story. Mr. Mass was also accused of sexually abusing a student. The person who made those accusations against Mr. Massa could be questioned as to whether Dr. Roos pressured this person into making highly improbable accusations. I say this because Dr. Roos also threatened me once with forfeiture of my teaching license if I failed to file a HIGHLY dubious claim of child abuse against the caregiver of one of my students (see my blog).
The Hispanic social worker who Dr. Roos allegedly physically assaulted is now retired, and safe from retaliation by MDCPS. She would probably also be willing to tell why a SOCIAL WORKER was so fearful of retaliation by MDCPS that she did not risk filing a complaint with the Gestapo OPS.
The parent of an NKC child briefly refused to continue to send her child to NKC because Dr. Roos was the school principal. Dr, Roos forced this parent to return the child to NKC by telling the parent her child would be forcibly removed from his home and placed into a foster home unless the child returned promptly to NKC. That child has now graduated and this woman is not a MDCPS employee, and she has no other children in the school system and therefore can no longer be blackmailed by MDCPS. This very articulate woman, along with other mothers who picketed NKC to protest Dr. Roos management of NKC would be more than happy to provide testimony about how their severely mentally retarded children suffered the worst punishment of all by Dr. Roos and former school Superintendent Alberto Carvalho (see my blog) for NKC’s illegally smashed conversion attempt.
Julie Besherat and Luz Morales, if provided protection, might be willing to testify that Dr. Roos attempted to pressure then into cheating on the FAA. Former assistant principals Adrian Sanchez and Alicia Fernandez could also be invited to provide testimony as to alleged illegal activities by Dr. Tracy Roos.
This is merely the tip of the iceberg. I could go on and on about additional alleged illegal activities by Dr. Roos, but I think you get the idea.
Have you ever pulled at one tiny strand of a ball of string, only to unravel that entire ball of string? That is the way it is with the nation’s fourth largest school district. Some people call MDCPS a criminal enterprise. If an investigation of MDCPS uncovers enough questionable activity to warrant questioning under oath, both former Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and current Superintendent Dotres may find themselves in a situation where their only choice is to answer the questions honestly, and face termination of employment, or to commit perjury, and face jail time.
Several years ago, Mr. Carvalho applied for the number two position in the Federal Dept. of Education. At the very last moment, after he had endured the entire grueling investigation process, Mr. Carvalho abruptly announced that he had come to the realization that he could not bear to be parted from the company of MDCPS children and was therefore withdrawing his nomination. While this is a charming story, many people wonder if Mr. Carvalho’s very abrupt withdrawal of his candidacy was due to more skeletons being found in his closet than there are in a cemetery.
At first glance, Mr. Carvalho’s achievements as MDCPS superintendent seem nothing short of startling. Many people wonder if a closer look at Mr. Carvalho’s records may reveal his astonishing success was due to cooking the books.
I want to conclude this email by strongly stressing that I hold Commissioner Corcoran, and NOT Governor DeSantis responsible for the rape of severely mentally retarded minority children, their parents, and minority staff of NKC. Governor DeSantis is probably one of the greatest and most proactive governors Florida has ever had in regard to protecting school children, As a result of Governor DeSantis firm leadership, at considerable political risk to himself, Governor DeSantis led the entire nation in both reopening Florida schools to in person learning during the Covid pandemic , and in repealing the mandates requiring children to wear masks while in school.