May 27,2022
Hello Dr. Dotres, Commissioner Corcoran, and school board member Luisa Santos. My name is Bill Detzner. My blog is mdcpsallegations.com I trust that by now, even the three of you are now aware of the tragic Texas school shooting that has so far claimed 21 lives.
In view of this tragedy, on behalf of the very frightened minority African American and Hispanic SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED students of NKC, the parents of those students, and the African American and Hispanic staff of Neva King Cooper School, I am asking that two actions be taken. Many of the minority parents of these SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED students DEEPLY, DEEPLY dislike NKC principal Dr. Tracy Roos and have lost confidence in Dr. Roos ability to offer a SAFE learning environment for their children. Indeed, they view Dr. Roos as the fox in the chicken coop, and the greatest OBSTACLE to achieving a SAFE learning environment for their children.
The minority parents of NKC students have expressed a fear that if they bring their concerns about Dr. Roos to the MDCPS authorities, Dr. Roos will retaliate by physically assaulting their children and that the Gestapo-like Office of Professional Standards (OPS) will then cover up the crimes of Dr. Roos and then further retaliate against those parental whistleblowers.
This tactic varies only slightly from the days when African American parents who had the temerity to insist that their children receive a high quality education were intimidated into silence with a burning cross on their lawns. Is it possible that 67 years after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision a WHITE principal in the nation’s fourth largest school district is free to PHYSICALLY ASSAULT A SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILD, a Hispanic social worker, and an African American custodian (see my blog) and still remain a MDCPS employee?
On behalf of the very frightened NKC stakeholders, I am asking that these two steps be taken. 1) Dr. Roos needs to IMMEDIATELY and PERMANENTLY be removed from the NKC campus. She also needs to be terminated as a MDCPS employee. 2) It would GREATLY enhance a DESPERATELY needed healing process for the NKC stakeholders if Dr. Alberto Fernandez is reinstated as the NKC principal.
Ms. Santos, as the school board member that represents NKC, if Dr. Dotres fails to IMMEDIATELY and PERMANENTLY remove Dr. Roos from the NKC campus, I am asking you and the other school board members to draft a letter to both Governor DeSantis and Commissioner Corcoran asking that Dr. Dotres be relieved of his position as the MDCPS school superintendent for failure to protect SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN from the danger of physical assault by WHITE school principal Dr. Tracy Roos. Ms. Santos, if you are reluctant to take this action, think of the negative things attorney Benjamin Crump (the attorney who represented both the Travon Martin and George Floyd cases) may say about you in the media. Think about what this may do to any future political ambitions you may have.
The NKC stakeholders fear that MDCPS intends to punish them in perpetuity for the “crime” of pursuing the supposedly legally protected activity of exploring converting from a public school to a charter school. Reinstating Dr. Alberto Fernandez as the NKC principal would send a clear signal to the NKC stakeholders that MDCPS is not intent on furthering this TEN YEAR punishment of NKC by replacing Dr. Roos with a principal as bad or worse than Dr. Roos. Also, MDCPS rated Dr. Fernandez as THE MOST EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATOR IN MDCPS. Dr. Fernandez has cultivated deep ties to business/stakeholder people in the community ( as evidenced by the golf tournament he held annually for many years to raise funds for the purchase of expensive physical therapy equipment for our students.) Finally, for many years, the yearly NKC staff and parent satisfaction surveys gave Dr. Fernandez some of the highest scores in MDCPS. I want to assure the readers of this letter that if Dr. Fernandez is reinstated as the NKC principal, it is extremely unlikely that NKC will ever again seek to convert to a charter school. No school knows better than NKC what happens to schools in MDCPS that pursue this supposedly legally protected activity.
If MDCPS chooses to fulfill both of the above mentioned requests, myself and the other NKC stakeholders will consider the matter as resolved, and take no further action. I am not naive enough to think that the three readers of this email will take these actions because it is the decent and moral thing to do. Therefore, I am asking the three readers of this email to consider how the quality of your personal lives will deteriorate if you lose the very large salaries you are currently receiving.
As I anticipate that the three morally bankrupt readers of this email see nothing wrong with offering the minority parents of SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN the option of either turning those UTTERLY DEFENSELESS AND EXTREMELY VULNERABLE CHILDREN over to the custody of a WHITE principal who has allegedly PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED THREE minority student or staff members, or having their children involuntarily being placed into foster homes due to school absences, I will pursue my plans to secure a face-to-face meeting with Governor DeSantis to address my grievances with MDCPS (my blog explains how I am going to use a highly connected attorney /lobbyist to do this.)
Here are some of the actions I will ask Governor DeSantis to take. First, I will ask him to introduce legislation to attach severe penalties for school districts that retaliate against schools that attempt to convert from public schools to charter schools. Once MDCPS realize that they will no longer be punished for taking this action, the stampede for the exits will be swift. Within a few years, Neva King Cooper School may be the only school still under the control of MDCPS!
I will also ask Governor DeSantis to conduct an in-depth investigation of MDCPS, especially the Gestapo-like Office of Professional Standards. Some other matters that may come under investigation include interviewing the now retired social worker as to how Dr. Roos allegedly physically assaulted her, interviewing the parent of the severely mentally retarded African American student who was allegedly physically assaulted by Dr. Roos to see if MDCPS threatened her with the loss of her child if she pursued her legal action against the school district, interviewing the two bus drivers who witnessed this alleged physical assault as to both what they saw, and what (if any) actions MDCPS took to intimidate them into dropping their complaint against Dr. Roos. Still other matters for investigation might include interviewing Ms. Sabrina Crawley Cross, the African American custodian who was allegedly physically assaulted by Dr. Roos , and finding out who ordered that someone other than Ms. Crawley Cross fill out the paperwork for Ms. Crawley Cross to pursue workman’s compensation for her injuries. If Dr. Roos pressured people who did NOT witness the alleged physical assault to write statements absolving Dr. Roos of blame for this incident, this action needs to receive the appropriate penalties. This list is only the tip of the iceberg that could be investigated concerning MDCPS. I intend to post this email on my blog.