All of us are familiar with the horror stories of emotionally troubled armed individuals who break into schools, armed with guns and kill and maim students and school staff. In an effort to prevent this, many schools now have one or more armed police assigned to schools.
What do you do when the person allegedly physically assaulting students and staff (including a PROFOUNDLY MENTALYY RETARDED AFRICAN AERICAN CHILD, a Hispanic social worker, and an African American custodian) is the white school principal who is committing these alleged crimes against minority students and staff? What do you do when both the principal (Dr. Tracy Roos) and the assistant principal (Alicia Fernandez) are also allegedly cheating on the annual end of the year student achievement tests given to students and receiving a financial bonus for the high student test scores achieved by virtue of alleged cheating by the two school administrators on those tests? What do you do when in violation of FEDERAL law, the school principal allegedly causes fraudulent workman’s compensation paperwork to be submitted in regards to an African American custodian who was allegedly physically assaulted by the school principal? The textbook remedy for that situation is to bring these matters to the attention of the school board and the superintendent of schools. What do you do when NUMEROUS emails to the school board and the school superintendent go unanswered over a period of several years and the school principal is NOT removed from the campus, and alleged physical assaults against students and staff allegedly continue to happen?
A person facing this situation would probably come to the conclusion that this school district (Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS)) is actually a criminal enterprise, needing to be put under the control of the State of Florida, until such time as a new school board and a new school superintendent who will enforce both state and Federal statutes can take control of the nation’s fourth largest school district.
What do you do when NUMEROUS emails over a period of several years to two Florida Commissioners of Education (Richard Corcoran and Manny Diaz) go unanswered, and the principal of this school (Dr. Tracy Roos) continues to be the principal of Neva King Cooper (NKC) School, a school exclusively for PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN. Most people reading this would come to the conclusion that NOBODY is ultimately in charge of Florida public schools, and that the school principal is free to break as many state and Federal laws as he or she pleases, with no fear of adverse consequence of any sort. This is the conclusion that many of the desperate parents of NKC Profoundly Mentally Retarded students have come to.
Regrettably, the situation is even WORSE than that. NKC is a center school, exclusively for Profoundly Mentally Retarded children, most of whom do not have speech, or any communication skills. This means that every day, the mostly minority parents of the most vulnerable children of all are forced to surrender the custody of their minority children to the “care” of a white principal who has allegedly already physically assaulted a Profoundly Mentall Retarded African American child, and two minority staff.
A few years ago, a Hispanic parent rebelled and refused to continue to send her child to NKC. After the child had been absent a few days, Dr. Roos informed the parent that unless the child was immediately returned to the tender mercies of Dr. Roos “care,” the parent would be stripped of her child and the child placed into a foster home. At no time was this mother offered the opportunity to enroll her child in a different school. Imagine the daily anguish of minority parents of very vulnerable, utterly defenseless children, most of whom cannot communicate, who must make a daily choice to entrust their children to a white principal who is regarded as deeply prejudiced by many minority staff and parents and who already has THREE alleged physical assaults against minority students/staff, or to risk losing custody of their child. What a terrible choice to force a parent to make, on a daily basis. It cannot be comforting for these parents to know that their tax money is being spent to pay the salary of this principal.
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination. Given the fact that tolerating physical assault by a supervisor is NOT a condition of employment for minorities in the rest of the US, why is it tolerated in MDCPS? In the rest of the US, minority parents enjoy the right to NOT have their children (allegedly) physically assaulted by the white school principal. Why don’t minority parents in MDCPS also enjoy this right? When I was a teacher at NKC for 25 years, I knew that a single incident of physical assault by me against a Profoundly Mentally Retarded child was grounds for immediate termination of my employment. Why has Dr. Roos been allowed THREE incidents of alleged physical assault, with no adverse consequences whatsoever???
The persecution of NKC has been ongoing for eleven years. It started when the parents and staff of NKC made the SUPPOSEDLY “legally protected” decision to convert from a public schooto a charter school. The term “legally protected” meant that supposedly, MDCPS could not retaliate against us for pursuing this option. A reader of the legal case DOAH 13-1492 would be shocked to find that MDCPS broke every rule in the book in illegally smashing NKC’s attempt to convert to a charter school.The school district was able to be this brazen, because the law provides NO PENALTIES WHATSOEVER for school districts that illegally smash a school’s attempt to convert from a public school to a charter school. IT IS THE HOPE OF MANY MDCPS EMPLOYEES THAT GOVERNOR DESANTIS WILL INTRODUCE LEGISLATION PROVIDING FOR DRACONIAN PENALTIES FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ILLEGALLY SMASH ATTEMPTS BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO CONVERT TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.
It is beyond cowardly and despicable for MDCPS to spend eleven years (and counting) punishing the minority parents AND PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN for the “crime” of pursuing the supposedly legally protected activity of converting from a public school to a charter school.
Here are two letters that I sent on June 16,2023. The first letter is to Superintendent Dotres. The second letter was sent to all 9 MDCPS school board members. Please be advised that there are one or more additional letters to interested stakeholders that I am not posting on this blog at this time.
Hello. My name is Bill Detzner. My blog is mdcpsallegations.com As the white school principal of Neva King Cooper School, Dr. Tracy Roos has allegedly physically assaulted THREE minority students/staff (a Hispanic social worker, a PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY RETARDED AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILD, and an African American custodian,) I am asking Superintendent Dotres to permanently remove Dr. Roos from her post as the Neva King Cooper principal PRIOR to the start of the 2023-2024 school year.
If Dr. Dotres fails to take this action, many people will judge him to be guilty of criminal negligence in protecting the most vulnerable children of all, Profoundly Mentally Retarded African American children, and the Hispanic and African American staff of Neva King Cooper.
Many people will also judge Superintendent Dotres to be guilty of condoning and protecting what gives the appearance of being racist physical violence by the white principal against Hispanic and African American Profoundly Mentally Retarded children and staff of Neva King Cooper School.
If Dr. Roos is allowed to remain of the principal of that school during the 2023-2024 school year, I will contact both Reverend Al Sharpton and attorney Benjamin Crump and make them aware of what gives the appearance of being the condoning of racist violence against minority students and staff in MDCPS. I will ask these two gentlemen to conduct a county wide audit of MDCPS to determine if racism and violence against minorities is widespread throughout the nation’s fourth largest school district.
I would also ask that MDCPS allow an independent investigative body, such as the FBI to conduct an investigation as to whether or not Dr. Roos illegally and fraudulently filed workman’s compensation paperwork regarding the African American custodian who went on workman’s compensation as a result of Dr. Roos alleged physical assault against this custodian. This custodian is alleging that a person other than herself fraudulently and without her knowledge or consent filed workman’s compensation on her behalf. If this allegation is true, whoever fraudulently filed this paperwork violated Federal statutes If this illegal activity is found to have occurred, I am asking that the proper legal sanctions be applied, including loss of employment, loss of pension, and an appropriate prison sentence.
I am going to post this email on my blog, along with emails I send to other interested stakeholders.
I would also remind Superintendent Dotres that MDCPS has recently been the target of a grand jury investigation regarding underreporting of wrongdoing by MDCPS.
Hello to the niner members of the Miami Dade Couinty Public Schools (MDCPS)school board. My name is Bill Detzner. My blog is mdcpsallegations.com
As the white school principal of Neva King Cooper (NKC) School Dr. Tracy Roos has allegedly physically assaulted THREE minority students/staff (a Hispanic social worker,a PROFOUNDLY MENTALLY RETARDED AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILD, and an African American custodian), I have sent Superintendent Dotres an email asking him to permanently remove Dr. Roos from her post as the NKC principla PRIOR to the start of the 2023-2024 school year. If Dr. Dotres fails to take this action, I am asking that the nine members of the MDCPS school board (especially Ms. Luisa Santos, who represents district 9, where NKC is located) write Governor Ron DeSantis and ask him to permanently relieve both Superintendent Dotres and Dr. Roos of their positions for failure to protect the most vulnerable children of all (Profoundly Mentally Retarded African American children)and the Hispanic and African American staff of NKC from alleged physical assaults by white school principal Dr. Tracy Roos. If Drand if the MDCPS school board fails to recommend to Dr. DeSantis . Dotres fails to take this action,