Why did Texas Education Agency investigate Everman ISD Superintendent and former coaches John Tinker and Gilbert Fuentez?
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UPDATE: As of January 2021, Texas Education Agency has concluded their investigation by 1) reinstated the teaching certificate of admitted child sexual predator and sexual harasser John Tinker, 2) refused to investigate the unethical actions of Everman ISD Superintendent Curtis Amos for actively covering up both these investigations, breaking the law and passing the “trash” on both these educators and 3) have removed admitted drug addict coach Gilbert Fuentez from education completely.
TEA has proven they do not care about schoolchildren in Texas. Allowing an admitted sexual predator to remain in the classroom and a superintendent to keep his position over a school district who hid this admitted sexual predator coach is unacceptable.
There is movement in other directions to effect proper outcomes that TEA is too lazy, apathetic and corrupt to effect. A complaint has been filed with the Texas Judicial Branch over improper conduct by TEA investigators who mishandled the portion of this complaint for Dr Curtis Amos and for those investigators who mishandled the portion for John Tinker.
Sanctions by the Texas Judicial Branch are binding under law. The goal is separate those investigators from TEA so that they can no longer hide for and assist admitted sexual predator educators to remain in the classroom with access to children.
However, this has not come without a monumental fight.
TEA investigators are embroiled in a battle for open records requests that have been filed to assist with the Texas Judicial Branch complaint.
The Office of the Attorney General ruled in May 2020 that TEA must turn over certain documents related to Amos and Tinker. As of January 2021, TEA investigators has refused to do so.
This refusal to comply with a legal order regarding state law is a massive red flag that TEA is trying to hide something.
A court order is being sought from the Texas Judicial Branch for TEA to comply with this legal decision from the OAG.
Additionally, petitions from parents in Everman ISD have been circulating to protest Dr Curtis Amos and to remove him from Everman ISD completely.
Additionally, the co-worker earned a slot to present to (for now) unnamed Texas Senator in Austin for the current 2021 session. Presentation of this case, findings, law and outcomes to this Texas Senator will provide a voice on the Congressional floor in Austin.
Statewide reform for TEA’s own criminal complicity and outright violations of the law are the goal of the co-worker in trying to affect change within the system state-wide.
Thank you readers for your loyalty and the many many people who have reached out to us to support, share, comment or even criticize our mission. We intend to move forward, albeit in a different direction, in the hopes that the larger systemic issues that allowed these coaches and superintendent to exist in the first place and with no real consequences when reported to the state, proof included, simply because TEA investigators are as incompetent or as a corrupt as the educators themselves.
We will update this story as events unfold.
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In September 2019, a 15 page complaint was filed with the Texas Education Agency against the Superintendent of Everman ISD and former coaches John Tinker and Gilbert Fuentez and 14 supporting pieces of evidence was submitted with this complaint.
Go to this page to read the full complaint: https://teainvestigation.com/complaint/
The intention of this site is to create a publicly searchable record of this TEA complaint against these three educators, the evidence and the actions that TEA has taken with this complaint and for matters OTHER THAN the TEA investigation.
Certain identifying information has been redacted from this site and the TEA complaint version published here has a “reasonable expectation of privacy” to protect third-party victims and witnesses involved in this complaint.
Multiple licensed private investigators across Texas have collected hundreds of pages documentation, photos and videos, court records, firsthand witness interviews and other documents, and to verify facts to be used in the publishing of this information on this site. Rest assured, these items of evidence do exist, but shall not be made available to the general public.
A multitude of open records requests were submitted to many agencies across the state of Texas to make sure that information published on this site can be verified by the public, if they so choose.
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