What can be done to encourage better handling of these types of situations to keep predators out of the schools and to ensure that women have their rights?
WHAT CAN BE DONE? see also Contact. see archived posts, incl.: The Fort Hays State University (FHSU), Hays, KS piece
What can be done to require better handling of these types of situations by local, state, and federal agencies & law enforcement, to keep predators out of the schools, and to ensure that women* actually have their human rights & American civil and legal rights?
*[It is recognized that in talking about domestic violence, especially within a marriage, that victim and applicable protective laws, both old and those yet to be written, must apply to either party. But, for the focus and purposes of this blog, the author will use the majority pronoun i.e. usually it is the wife/she that is the battered victim and husband/he the batterer/perpetrator. Also, until all women, especially those victims of domestic violence, actually have gender human, civil rights and legal rights as citizens, we are yet still constitutionally denied our voice including a legal voice in the issues addressed within this blog and its story.] Dogs are better protected than we are in our own country.
This section is for mutual use, by this author and concerned reader. It will be separated into three categories. The author/survivor intends to make public everything known and learned about the flaws, problems & cover-ups with the systems; to thus network with others also working in this area. Also, to encourage solid ideas from others also harmed. Within this format, it is hoped to make recommendations and provide a way to attack these issues [letting others move this issues forward into action and hope the information is of help and is used by those entities already at work in these areas].
Specific, by name and district, kids harmed- in more recent past.
And in General for the well-being of all: to put a stop to these atrocities.
1) Monsters, sexual predators, within our schools.
a) How to stop their entry; get them permanently out, and other legal actions: differing agencies and levels of government.
b) Possible immediate actions by parents to protect their own kids.
2) Domestic Violence
a) Legal Voice: both criminal and civil.
b) Other needs which are unmet or ineffectively addressed.
3) Legal CORRUPTION & Brokenness– especially when it impacts these two areas:
School Predators and Domestic Violence.
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SCHOOL MONSTERS
I.
FOR Parents: Take Action Do: any or all of the following recommendations & it would be proper to involve those for whom English is not the first language in the home or someone who can speak for them.
It is planned to encourage & include others’ ideas– especially legislative & legal- and expand on the facts, reasoning for these specific recommendations in future posts.
…To be continued….
1 Do what you must do to protect your child’s welfare & safety. Pay attention to what your kids express to you, esp. any unease, discomfort, or a description that doesn’t make sense to you. Even if that means you alone or with the whole group of parents – pull your kids from the class or school. Demand the monster(s) be immediately terminated from the district or removed completely from the school until that is accomplished. You wouldn’t let anyone else back around your kids while the systems process this; so why should a District require you keep your defenseless child in harms way.
Work openly and honestly with decent, good administrators and teachers; they don’t want these creeps around either. Part of what this blog intends to address is the quasi-legal issues that perpetrators skillfully use to tie decent hands: esp. in rural or poorer districts.
Never make a false accusation – this just makes it easier within all the systems, especially schools, for perpetrators to stay employed or for the District to ‘pass the trash’ to yet another school. Arizona has quite a reputation for doing this.
2 Know your child’s legal and or disability rights & your rights as the parent or legal guardian. Network with others who’ve had to deal with the same ‘trash’ or issues.
KNOW & UTILIZE your rights to see & get a copy of your child’s records especially IEPS [as soon as possible this section will offer more general information & it specifically impacts children/parents of AZ MUSD #43 during 3+ academic years 2002-2005 and beyond.]
See section II 3 4
3 KNOW and if you don’t yet know – learn, inform yourself exactly what the different adults do, especially the support service professionals, & how they do their job. The following is a generalized example.
For Example: a School Psychologist (& often in small districts they may wear another hat like a director of special education i.e. dual responsibilities) has a primary responsibility to administer the varied evaluative, diagnostic ‘tests’ to a child; these are used for proper identification of need and thus a key part of the overall academic placement of the child: especially for special needs, special education students. Said test results are a required key part of what is referred to as an I.E.P. (the student’s Individual Education Plan). This IEP not only governs the child’s academic placement etc. but is directly tied to funding the school gets from varied sources including State & Federal with stipulated legal rights and requirements that the District must abide. The administrations of these tests have standardized protocols; professionals have a responsibility to secure them. The protocols on a number of these tests also include a calendar time factor which means that there must be a definite time frame between the testings of the child or the test is invalided.
Parents should know also the following: to administer any of the needed testing to a student (or to do the required update testing) most tests are required to be done one on one with the individual child. The school psychologist thus has physical access per their scheduling for whatever time and frequency they deem required with that specific child. This is done usually in a separate room or location away from others, door closed, and a ‘Do not disturb, Testing.’ directive to other staff. The child is alone with the professional adult; it is unsupervised.
In most situations and with most professionals, including the other support service professionals who too must test or work individually with a student, this is not a safety concern for the child.
[A future entry will make specific suggestions to make these scenarios safe for all: child/student, adult professional, and school.]
Parents should know that for any testing, evaluation etc. to be administered to their child that they must give written informed consent. Research, learn what this really means. At the very least, it requires that whatever you, as parent, decide or agree to is based on receipt of complete
information of all pertinent facts, variables, or risks. Any withholding or failure to disclose a key variable may subject the school district to lawsuit.
Specific for Parents: Nadaburg USD 81 & Dysart USD 89, AZ. (Mayer USD 43, Humboldt USD 22 -Prescott Valley, & Continental School District #39, AZ).
General information within is for all parents and taxpayers.
SPECIFIC
Administrators, reasonably, are often dependant on those professionals within district staff, to properly and professionally advise them regards their area of expertise, as a part of fulfilling their professional contractual obligations.
Berny Kruse’s resignation, effective June 30, 2009 i.e. end of current contract, and the Nadaburg USD #81 Board’s quieted acceptance of same, however supposedly included an internal written notice to & signed by Kruse that he was never to be alone with a child (for the protection of all involved).
Note: Kruse’s background check by the Nadaburg Unified School District #81, Wittmann, AZ was not in fact done until year’s end 2008.
This note will be expanded, continued elsewhere as is apparently linked to the Nelson/Kruse child molestation lawsuit & Yavapai County Arizona corruption, and the attempt to kill me.
If he failed to inform the District of the following (3 points below): Kruse has violated his professional obligation to the District, parents and their children/students & thus subjected the District to possible law suits.
An administrator or school board president, district lawyer, or any parent can find and verify the following (answers to the questions) from any reputable professional or graduate school that trains school psychologists: [see INSERT below]
Boils down to 3 main points:
- Parents must give informed consent (& that should include why the other adult is present).
- Informed consent: needs to appraise parents/school that: the collection of data will be less accurate from student & also impact results; said written reports should have included such and also explained not only the presence of another adult but why.
- It is against professional standards to unnecessarily expose the testing protocols which set the usable standardized norms.
Do any of you really think any student Kruse has tested since that stipulation was put into place was properly tested or that the parent gave informed consent?.
April is National Prevent Child Abuse month. Perhaps parents will get done what the State apparently due to ineptness, brokenness or (and as this total story unfolds, it will be left to the readers- the extent & levels of corruption involved); didn’t even bother to address complaints but was unwilling or unable and instead deliberately deferred for yet another 3-6 months; timed to coincide with Berny’s sudden resignation’s effective date.
INSERT To preface, the situation* for these questions is not in any way needed or required by or for the student.
This is about the various standardized and accepted testing administered by a professional school psychologist to an individual (minor child) student– 2 similar but different queries.
A: 1) Is the privacy of the student and tester needed for:
Accuracy or honesty of the student’s response? Thus, does it or can this added adult impact the validity of the results?
2) To meet individual student’s confidentiality rights?
*The situation is one in which another adult is deliberately placed in the room i.e. the school psychologist is not allowed to be alone with the child.
B: Would not the licensed school psychologist be obliged to not only factor into the results and thus so state within the written report that additional variable (the inclusion of another adult into the testing situation; and which one would assume it would also require the why that other person is present) but also: prior to testing:
1) So advise the District? Especially if a District administration lacks background regards the testing, protocols etc. (school psychology expertise) and or is dependant upon said professional for that expert information? and
2) So advise the parents of the minor child (parents who must give informed consent to testing) regards a) this impact upon testing result and
b) the ‘why’ for the other* adult’s presence?
* restating, the need for the other adult is not necessitated by any assist required by the test subject: the minor child.
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To whichever Nadaburg USD #81 parent(s) this concerns: Regarding Berny Kruse’s purported claim that he was ‘trained, practiced in take-down & immobilization techniques’.*
As a school psychologist, unless your district paid for it, he has never received any such training nor been affiliated with any educational program, professional entity or district that would condone or subscribe to any such conduct. However, there is a thread of truth: he was exposed to such ‘training’ when he (Bennie) as a junior high student wrestled at the lightest weight possible on his small rural school’s wrestling team.
Perhaps, dependent upon circumstance, all parents should consider inappropriate conduct by any adult staff, more often, as possible assault and battery & involve local police. However, jurisdiction for Wittmann, AZ is the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department; Surprise, AZ is the local police.
[* more about this on the future restricted site]
This section: is both Specific & of General information– regards the issues within that are exposed. Time is of the essence & hopefully this section too will be rapidly expanded within the My Story. Parents and taxpayers of Yavapai County take note of what was covered-up, kept from you, as to what was done to your kids & District: esp. at Mayer USD, AZ.
Caution: Good people within this specific story were also treated with disdain because of the role corruption played; be supportive, even now of them- as this story unfolds. Parents will come to appreciate these quiet heroes, who try with one hand tied, to give their best to your Districts & children. Now you, as taxpayers and parents, must give your best to demand legal accountability for the monsters & those agencies who failed your trust; to work with your representatives to cross district boundaries and academic calendar time frames, and to eliminate flaws, legal brokenness and corruption thereby to truly strengthen and enforce the laws/agencies you think protect your children. Additionally, parents, taxpayers, and schools must eliminate denial and recognize realities which victims and those authorities who do try and stop school monsters know. One of which is predators tend to hook up and run in packs; one get in & pulls in the others. I’m told that when a targeted District gets on top of it too often 2-3 years have passed; damage done & the monsters slither out to their next prey.
In Arizona, it’s known as passing the trash.
… to be continued
4 And, this is so important: if at any time, as a parent, you’ve been told in response to your concern or trying to report conduct that harms a child, especially sexual, or suspicion of same – be wary of authority figures who dismissively say ‘Oh, you’re the only parent (or child) who’s had this complaint or said anything’ or ‘Your child must have just misunderstood what Mr. or Ms. XYZ was trying to do.’
Talk openly with other parents. What the monsters depend on is the secrecy or shame or isolation of victims one from another– even within the same district.
If you find that the system requires you work your way up thru a process; one that they can and do delay, even extend for months & even years – also Go very Public immediately. Utilize your public forums and even the press or media.
Do not speak any untruth; demand the school comply with even the basic state laws that require ‘suspected’ be reported to the State and have trained outside experts make a determination.
Know that factual personal conduct that is criminal or unprofessional, even if for whatever reason there may be no criminal conviction, can be grounds for administrative dismissal and or license revoked by a District and or the State.
Insist that agencies that have been harmed do what they know they should, instead of remaining silence, and file the appropriate complaints or reports in all arenas: administrative, civil and criminal. Back decent administrators and school boards who do their job. Be wary and pay attention to those who are more concerned about ‘parents finding out’ than protecting your children and the next district.
5 Even if you chose to concurrently go to school authorities DO NOT do so sequentially when you have a concern. Treat it as you would if it were a stranger off the street & immediately, if not before, involve the local police or CPS. If it is within the school’s administration that the concern lays; particularly in a rural district – it may be wise to trust no one; enlist and leave it to outside trained professionals.
HOWEVER, if you know you’re dealing with a corrupt or inept jurisdiction take it to the state and/or even the federal level. Special Needs or special education kids are funded by federal, state, and local tax dollars. Both state and federal law enforcement may be able to become involved: particularly in issues of corruption or cover-up within the responsible agencies or personnel. Document Everything: dates, times, names, facts, etc. If the area is known for corruption; join forces – get someone or some advocate group involved from the outside. They can help direct you to resources and you may want to hire an attorney.
Specific: With a corruption piece see II 1) and 2).
II.
This section will deal with the state and local agencies which parents and taxpayers depend upon to prevent predators, especially of children, from even making entry into the schools.
Their true culpability and failings in this will hopefully give you motivation to act. It bears repeating herein; the issues this true story will present are not limited to locale.
By necessity you will come to understand how critical the legislature must become involved to actually accomplish real change within this facet.
…to be continued This section will too be developed within the My Story.
1 Know your state representative: both house & senate. Know which committees deal with school related issues. Demand real action to control these school monster issues.
Note: Those of you in the MUSD, HUSD & Nadaburg, Dysart Districts of AZ – it appears you are all within the 4th Legislative District. At least one legislator, Tom Boone, apparently has germane life experience background to better assist with your concerns.
Recommendation: Get together & work with him; demand there be a full outside investigation esp. regards Yavapai County—and then its impact on your districts; even now with facts as this blog unfolds, and what persons therein still know or should recall, there should be both criminal & civil action still available. More importantly, insist that what happened there be fully disclosed and proper legislative & prosecutorial steps be taken.
Do not rural districts, often with additional concerns of lower income & demographics of second language needs, have the right to expect the State to protect your children too from monsters who deliberately prey on smaller, rural districts? And if the State won’t, Who?
Additionally, when a child, especially a special education child, has been harmed or hurt in any way by a school employee, including administrators, but especially when that adult was the school psychologist it should have resulted in a proper report – to the State- for outside investigation of child abuse; charges filed, and license pulled. This includes physical, verbal, sexual, or emotional harm inflicted upon that child(ren) which is subject to both criminal and administrative action; unprofessional conduct can also be addressed by both District and State. Those involved in the cover-up are culpable too; this culpability may be both against an agency and or an individual.
2 FEDERAL Agencies have responsibility and authority to become involved in local jurisdictions when there is corruption & failure to protect. The Phoenix FBI would be the proper office for residents of Yavapai County, AZ to request help. In addition, perhaps they may be able to, in concert with the U. S. Regional Department of Education (out of California), co-ordinate an investigation or audit since federal (&state) tax dollars impacting special ed children, and federal grant monies were embezzled and/or illegally used during the Kruse & Nelson tenure at MUSD.
3 Immediately engage an outside attorney to represent (suggest do as a group) because Arizona has a tight 180 day time frame to file a notice of intent to file a civil lawsuit against a public agency. There are qualified attorneys in Phoenix who may take this on.
SEE the IEP section (above in I 3) for additional information. Because:
“What They didn’t want the Public to know”, and thus there was an orchestrated cover-up by county officials and entities, which involved three areas:
What was going on behind the scenes during the MUSD Nelson-Kruse tenure but prior to April 2005;
What really happened April 2005; and
What damage by especially B. Kruse was found after they exited the MUSD District June ‘05.
The damage itself had a long-term impact – on your children’s I.E.P.s because they found that all 3 academic years of I.E.P.s, i.e. 2003-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, were non-existent i.e. destroyed or never done: this was Bernie Kruse’s absolute responsibility.
Additionally it was found:
The District had been left over $500,000. in the red.
Bernie Kruse’s personnel file had been purged; all his travel vouchers destroyed, and
Receipts for grants he’d been involved with were also missing, destroyed.
….To be continued…..
And to HUSD- Humboldt USD, Prescott Valley, AZ– we know that Kruse committed felony theft also from you all & have information that “if this (the 4/05 stuff and prior, including MY Story) became public knowledge, apparently there is an expectation that ‘parents’ would come out of the woodwork re: Bernie Kruse”; on concerns for which your district too had its hands tied.
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
