TEA Complaint

Here is the TEA Complaint #2020-09-033 that was filed in September 2019 against Everman ISD Superintendent Dr Curtis Amos, coach John Tinker and coach Gilbert Fuentez. (Some additional notes and updates have been placed into this site version, as well as some items of evidence have been redacted from this site that were part of the TEA investigation, but an * may appear next to any item on this page where documentation or evidence exists.)

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TO: State Board for Educator Certification

Texas Education Agency

1701 N. Congress Avenue

Austin, TX 78701-1494

Fax: (512) 475-3665

Email: complaintsmanagement@tea.texas.gov

In re: Complaints for Educator Misconduct for 3 educators

9-5-2019

This is a complaint about Educator Misconduct against Dr Curtis Amos, Superintendent of Everman ISD.  There are many dates and events in this complaint, so please bear with the length of this complaint.

Additionally, to assist with the chronology of events, a timeline is provided at the end of each item in this complaint.  There are Google drive link addendums for audio recordings and documents that are accompanying this complaint to substantiate the claims of Educator Misconduct in this complaint.

Item 1: Educator Misconduct on behalf of Dr Curtis Amos, Superintendent of Everman ISD, for failing to properly investigate and for failing to report an employee’s drug use to SBEC and TX DPS.

The documents and recordings filed with this complaint will substantiate that Dr Curtis Amos botched an investigation into drug use by Business Teacher/Coach Gilbert Fuentez (G.F.) who uses cocaine and marijuana* (and has for more than 17 years*), and how Dr Amos protected G.F. during and after the investigation.  

As a result of Dr Amos’ unethical actions, G.F. threatened and harassed a co-worker to remain silent, destroy evidence and to impede an investigation into G.F’s drug use at Everman ISD and then committed threats on the co-worker’s daughter’s life when the co-worker told him she was not going to hide his criminal actions and drug use any longer and wanted to go reveal the proof that she had*.

For supplemental reading on “Who is Gilbert Fuentez?”, please click this link https://teainvestigation.com/whoisgilbertfuentez/

(See addendum 1 for Arlington Police report who has received the audio recording of this threat and there is a pending criminal case and active investigation)

It appears that G.F. may have also driven his athletes around in a school bus while cocaine and marijuana was in his system. No complaint against his CDL was ever filed by Everman* (as is required by law) or self-reported by G.F. (as is required by law)* when he failed a drug test and refused a 2nd drug test; both on 4-16-2019.*

G.F. was given a “Settlement Agreement” on 5-4-2019* from Everman ISD even though he failed a drug test on 4-16-2019, which was “inconclusive for temperature”, and he refused to submit a 2nd sample that same day. After the failed drug test, G.F. was given 40 ounces of water and 2 hours to wait in the clinic lobby to submit a 2nd sample and refused to do so.* The 1st sample he submitted was “inconclusive for temperature” because one of his girlfriends, R.R. (name redacted for privacy), who is a nurse at a local hospital, came to pick him up from the Everman Administration building and took him to the Workman’s comp clinic so he could submit a urine sample*, but he alleged to a co-worker that R.R. had given him a substituted urine sample to submit, instead of G.F.’s own sample, when R.R. drove him to the clinic, and she waited in the parking lot for him to come out*.  At about 1:45pm, R.R. drove G.F. back to the Administration building, where he met with Dr Amos for refusing to submit a 2nd sample.*

(See addendum below for “Garage” recording )

After G.F. left the workman’s comp clinic at 145pm, he went to Dr Amos’ office where Dr Amos told G.F. that a tip came through to Everman ISD that an “ex-girlfriend said he did cocaine” and that that was the reason he was sent to the workman’s comp clinic.  No “ex-girlfriend” submitted a tip and this tip was NOT the catalyst event that sent G.F. to the workman’s comp clinic on 4-16-2019, but rather breaking up a student fight where his hand was injured.*  (Please see “Shumer Shuffle” recording of G.F. describing this meeting where Dr Amos specifically says the co-worker’s name to G.F. during this 4-16-2019, and saying the co-worker was the source of this “ex-girlfriend” tip)

Unfortunately, the “ex-girlfriend” that Dr Amos was referring to was a co-worker of G.F.’s. Additionally, G.F. and the co-worker were actively involved in a relationship as of 4-16-2019, and that relationship had not yet ended as of 4-16-2019.*  G.F. and the co-worker’s relationship had been on record with Everman ISD as of 3-7-2019, when the co-worker filed a Title IX complaint with Everman for sexual harassment against John Tinker* (J.T) (please see details about this item below). 

For supplemental reading on “Who is John Tinker?”, please click this link https://teainvestigation.com/who-is-john-tinker/

For supplemental reading on “Who is Dr Curtis Amos?”, please click this link https://teainvestigation.com/amos/

G.F. allegedly told Dr Amos that the “ex-girlfriend”/co-worker was simply trying to get revenge for breaking up and she was psycho, lying and she had no proof.  G.F.’s allegation towards the co-worker is blatantly false because, at the time on 4-16-2019, the co-worker and G.F. were still involved in a relationship and had no reason for revenge or to lie.  This relationship did not terminate until 7-2-2019, at the co-worker’s choosing.* 

It appears that Dr Amos may have believed G.F. about the lies he told about the “ex-girlfriend”/co-worker, and, in doing so, Dr Amos ruined the drug investigation into G.F. in the following ways:

1) by subjecting the co-worker to becoming a vulnerable target for harassment for weeks by G.F.,

 2) for blaming the co-worker as the initiating event of the drug investigation, even though it was understood by both G.F. and the co-worker that it was a workman’s comp injury and failed drug test that precipitated the drug investigation, and

3) by preventing the “ex-girlfriend”/co-worker from getting and turning in evidence regarding G.F.’s drug use to Everman once the co-worker became the suspected source of information at about 1:45pm on 4-16-2019.

Additionally, G.F. was not placed on Administrative Leave to conduct an investigation into the failed drug test and drug use allegation until 4-23-2019*, ONE FULL WEEK AFTER FAILING A DRUG TEST AND REFUSING A 2ND TEST, and G.F. reported to work during this time, had full access to his students and his athletes to possibly drive them in the bus to games*. On 5-4-2019, G.F. was given a full “Settlement Agreement” by Everman ISD that paid him out through his contract that ended naturally at the end of August 2019, with full pay, benefits, paid days that transfer, etc.*

(Please see this link for this “Settlement Agreement” and G.F.’s resignation dated 5-4-2019)

"Settlement Agreement" and "Resignation" between Everman ISD and Gilbert Fuentez

(UPDATE: the original complaint filed in September 2019 listed 2 relationships, but due to new evidence that has been procured through multiple licensed investigators across the state of TX and through the TEA investigation process, this site now describes corrected, current information below as of March 2020. Additional pages on this site will provide more information on the roles of each of these 5 women in the TEA investigation (if applicable) and corroborating evidence can be provided that has been procured since the complaint was filed. However, certain information has been redacted to maintain the privacy of each of these women.)

However, what Dr Amos could not have known is that G.F. had 5 active relationships as of 4-16-2019; 3 of which are still ongoing, 1 that ended and 1 that may or may not have ended.  One with the co-worker for about 11 months that ended 7-2-2019. One with V.L. (name redacted for privacy) in several cities across TX and now in Austin for the last 9 years. One with L.R. (name redacted for privacy) in Odessa for the last several years. One with T.W. (name redacted for privacy) in Waco for more than the last 2 years. One with R.R (name redacted for privacy) from Ft Worth for almost 3 years.

Meet these 5 women and learn about other prior women, his ex-wife and the children he abandoned here at this link: https://teainvestigation.com/women/

When G.F. left the Administration building at approximately 310pm on 4-16-2019, he texted the co-worker and told her to meet him at UEA, which is his teacher legal representation, which was about 4 miles away, and to call him and stay on the phone with him so she could not talk with anyone else about the situation*.  At 330pm, this co-worker left campus, met G.F. at UEA and her phone was taken from her and G.F. proceeded to demand to see pictures, recordings and text messages on her phone, believing she tipped off Everman ISD, and he demanded she delete everything that could prove his drug use in an attempt to hinder the investigation and for her to accompany him inside to UEA and she was not allowed to leave the premises at UEA. 

After leaving UEA, at G.F.’s apartment, the co-worker was subjected to 3 hours of yelling and berating by G.F., and told to delete everything she could in her phone, accusations, demands on her to find someway to help him test clean, harassment and interrogation before she was allowed to leave at 715pm.  However, the personal harassment, interrogation and intimidation that the co-worker experienced did not stop after 4-16-2019 and went on for several more wks.

Fearing for her safety has never ended for the co-worker due to Dr Amos’ statement to G.F. that the co-worker was the source of the drug use tip, SEVERAL HOURS AFTER the 1st failed drug test at the workman’s comp clinic, and allegedly AS A MANEUVER TO GET G.F. TO BREAK DOWN, CONFESS AND/OR RETURN TO GIVE A 2ND URINE SAMPLE.  As a result of Dr Amos’ perceived defamatory actions, the co-worker did not assist Everman ISD in their investigation voluntarily but did submit a statement on what little information the co-worker had about G.F.’s drug use and the fight between the students.* 

It appears that Dr Amos did not follow procedure when he did not require G.F. to return to the clinic to do a 2nd test to substantiate the 1st failed drug test that occurred after he was sent to the workman’s comp clinic earlier in the morning after he injured his hand breaking up a student fight.

Dr Amos may have had 3 reasons for not following this procedure:

1) as a means of protecting G.F. from any adverse action that Everman ISD would take against G.F.,

2) to protect Everman ISD from a scandal that could go public, and

3) for retaliation against the co-worker for filing a Title IX complaint on 3-7-2019, which led to the termination of a 16 year long employee and well-loved football coach John Tinker.  (Details below for this)

No additional, substantial or tangible investigation was conducted by Everman ISD into the allegation or evidence of G.F.’s drug use.

A statement was demanded from the co-worker from Dr Donaldson, the Asst Superintendent, and, on 4-23-2019, after being subjected to days of personal harassment and intimidation by G.F., the co-worker submitted a statement to Dr Donaldson that was 100% truthful, about what little information the co-worker could provide at that time on 4-23-2019.* 

Fearing personal retaliation and an unsafe work environment created by Dr Amos at Everman ISD, the co-worker immediately went to the parking lot after submitting her statement and, with the blessing of her attorney, submitted her resignation for Everman ISD*, despite having no other jobs lined up and no plans to leave Everman ISD BEFORE Dr Amos, in her opinion, sabotaged the investigation and recklessly and intentionally created a severe threat to the safety and well-being of the co-worker. 

It would not have mattered anyway, as Dr. Amos, from the beginning, at the first meeting Dr Amos and G.F. had on 4-16-2019 at 145pm, it appears that Dr Amos may have believed, supported and protected G.F. during the 3 wks of investigation and may have believed G.F. that he was “being set up” by the “ex-girlfriend”/co-worker and his lies.

The TEC states that the Superintendent has seven days to report educator misconduct and, but as of 7-29-2019, when the co-worker met with Dr. Amos and Dr Donaldson* to discuss the following concerns the co-worker had, it was clear no one in Everman ISD had reported G.F. to SBEC, TEA or Texas DPS for his commercial driver’s license (CDL)*.  The meeting on 7-29-2019 with Dr. Amos and Dr Donaldson were about the following items of concern the co-worker had:

1)  the botched drug investigation on G.F.,

2) the allegations against the co-worker by Dr. Amos that led to the co-worker’s harassment by G.F.,

3) the police report and audio recording regarding the threat on the co-worker’s daughter’s life by G.F. when the co-worker wanted to reveal her proof of G.F.’s drug use,

and

4) documented violence by G.F. on a vicious assault that occurred on 5-26-2018 by G.F., that made the co-worker fear for her own safety, and that both police records and audio recordings, in both R.R.’s and G.F.’s own words, substantiate the assault that was perpetrated by G.F. on R.R. on 5-26-2018.

(Please see this link for Ft Worth Police Department records, photos and recordings.  This investigation is an active, pending criminal case that is being handled out of the Domestic Violence Unit for Ft Worth PD)

Domestic violence

All evidence pointed towards neither Dr. Amos nor Dr. Donaldson, nor anyone from Everman ISD, ever filed a complaint for educator misconduct with TEA, SBEC or Texas DPS, as they should have. It also became clear in this 7-29-2019 meeting that, in the co-worker’s opinion, Dr. Amos’s wantonly disregarded for the safety of his employees and students by not reporting G.F.’s educator misconduct to the appropriate agencies and, additionally, she felt that he placed the co-worker and her child’s life in jeopardy as retaliation for the Title IX complaint. 

By failing to report and to pursue the investigation, per the TEC, and by placing blame at the feet of the co-worker to deflect accountability away from Everman ISD and onto the co-worker, this appeared to be Dr Amos’ attempt contain this issue within Everman ISD and hide it from advancing any further or from going public and going beyond from the few people within Everman ISD who knew about the issue.  It also became clear in this 7-29-2019 meeting that, due to the words that Dr Amos used and the tone and manner in which he handled the co-worker and her current and past concerns, that Dr Amos did not appear to care one bit at the danger he placed the co-worker in. 

Hence, the failure to report by Everman ISD and Dr Amos is the catalyst for this complaint now being filed by the co-worker mentioned above in an effort to do the right thing. 

(Please see addendum for the audio recording of the 7-29-2019 meeting between Amos, Donaldson and the co-worker)

Furthermore, in this 7-29-2019 meeting between Dr Amos, Dr Donaldson and the co-worker, Dr Amos used explicit words that DEFENDED and EXCUSED the behavior of G.F. away and that turned the accusations and hostile comments against the co-worker*. These words included harsh, negative comments about the co-worker’s character and personal life, especially towards the evidence she was trying to offer in her personal experiences with harassment and intimidation that she received from G.F.* Her concerns were dismissed by Dr Curtis Amos and he denied that he ever implicated the co-worker as the source of the cocaine tip and that he continued to implicate her multiple times in the weeks after 4-16-2019.*

Again, the precipitating event that led to G.F.’s drug investigation was breaking up a fight on 4-16-2019 at 915am, injuring his hand, and being sent to the workman’s comp clinic 1 hour later where he was drug tested. This is standard protocol for Everman ISD in the case of a workplace injury.

However, after the 4-16-2019 accusation by Dr Amos that the co-worker was the source of the “cocaine use” tip, 2 other additional documented instances occurred in the weeks after where Dr Amos continuously placed the co-worker at blame as the source of the cocaine tip.

The 2nd instance where Dr Amos continued to publicly maintain the co-worker was the source of the tip occurred with email exchanges between a) Jim Whitton, Attorney for Everman ISD, b) Jason Stuart, Attorney to G.F. and c) Shane Goetz, Attorney for the co-worker, between 4-16-2019 and 5-10-2019*.  These emails provide proof numerous times that Dr Amos and Everman ISD was going to officially and publicly point to the co-worker of the source of the tip and, as a result, the catalyst for being sent to the workman’s comp clinic where G.F. was drug tested.

The 3rd instance occurred when the 5-4-2019 “Settlement Agreement” meeting took place with G.F., his Attorney from UEA and Everman officials where an email, sent from the co-worker, was voluntarily printed and handed over to G.F. by Everman ISD officials*. This email was sent from the co-worker to Dr Donaldson on 4-16-2019 at 1055am, nearly 1.5 hours AFTER G.F. had already been called to the workman’s comp clinic for a drug test.

Even though this email contains ZERO reference about cocaine and in no way can this email from the co-worker be construed as the co-worker told Everman ISD that G.F. did cocaine, Dr Amos and Everman ISD officials asserted this email as “proof” that the “ex-girlfriend”/co-worker was the source of the drug use tip in the 5-4-2019 meeting with G.F. when they gave him the “settlement agreement”.

(A synopsis of this email is provided at the bottom of this complaint).

The basis of this TEA complaint is that Dr Amos engaged in illegal and unethical behavior in how he handled the investigation that began on 4-16-2019, and again at several points after the investigation began, and Dr Amos offered a “Settlement Agreement” to G.F. on 5-4-2019 when that should not have taken place, and Dr Amos did not report to the appropriate agencies at all. 

Due to mishandling of the aforementioned investigation, G.F. was able to take a coaching position in Austin ISD in summer of 2019*, and he would not have been allowed to do so IF Dr Curtis Amos had filed the SBEC and TxDPS complaints, as he was required to by law.

Item 2: Educator Misconduct on behalf of Dr Curtis Amos, Superintendent of Everman ISD, for failing to properly investigate a Title IX complaint, failing to report an employee’s sexual predation of female students to local law enforcement and CPS as a “mandatory reporter”, for retaliation against the co-worker for filing a Title IX complaint and for failing to report educator misconduct to SBEC

In the course of 1 single day on 2-16-2019, across 1200+ text messages between this same co-worker and beloved Everman football coach John Tinker (J.T), J.T. implicated the Everman School Board President, the Everman Athletic Coordinator, several administrators and male staff, and 3 fellow female staff in a culture of rampant sexual harassment practices or victimization across Everman ISD. J.T. admitted to sleeping with 4 former female students of his, as well as engaged in a host of many other unethical and disgusting actions.* The co-worker turned these 1200 messages in to Dr Amos and filed a Title IX complaint on 3-7-2019 with a list of 23 items that were the subject of the complaint. J.T. was given a “Settlement Agreement” in March 2019* and sent along his way, with no complaints filed to SBEC for the football coach’s actions and very little action ever took place as to any other evidence against other Everman ISD employees, allegations of sexual predation on students nor into the documented sexual harassment of the co-worker or the other 3 females that was the subject of the Title IX complaint.

Instead, the co-worker was subjected to personal harassment on 3-8-2019 at 830am, by Dr Curtis Amos, when meeting about the complaint she filed on 3-7-2019, when Dr Amos accused her of notifying a local news station of the complaint filed just the night before*, and pressured her to implicate either herself, G.F., her immediate supervisor, one of the women who was listed as a victim in the Title IX complaint or anyone else he could think of as the source of the press tip-off. 

(Please see addendum for a recording of this 3-8-2019 meeting that is being submitted with this complaint)

The co-worker had no knowledge of how the press could have found out about this Title IX complaint filed only 12 hours earlier and Dr Amos was seemingly upset that the press found out about it and that the co-worker could not give him the source of the press tip.  He continued to seemingly pressure and interrogate the co-worker for more than 10 minutes in this 3-8-2019 meeting until the co-worker broke down in tears and he finally stopped talking about it.  Dr Curtis Amos seemed to be visibly upset with the co-worker and she felt that he was harsh in tone.  The co-worker believes it was because of this Title IX complaint, and not knowing who tipped the press off about the complaint, that led her to lose support with Dr Curtis Amos and find herself the victim of retaliation by Dr Curtis Amos 6 wks later when this drug investigation happened with G.F. 

Additionally, by seemingly covering up the Title IX investigation and refusing to pursue any adequate legal responsibility and accountability against J.T, and by simply giving J.T. a “Settlement Agreement” and sending him on his way, Dr Amos seemingly demonstrates actions of covering up illegal and unethical behaviors of Everman ISD employees to possibly avoid public scandal with Everman ISD and maybe even to protect his career.

22 out of the 23 items in the Title IX complaint were dismissed in whole by Dr Donaldson and Dr Amos, with the exception being the unsolicited, nearly nude photo of another female co-worker sent by J.T. to the co-worker filing the complaint, without the co-worker’s knowledge and consent who is in the photo.* Everman ISD took the position that this was the ONLY event that led to J.T. being placed on administrative leave and being allowed to resign and leave with his certification intact and to justify no reports made to the appropriate agencies under the appropriate laws.

(Please see addendum below for Title IX complaint and Everman ISD near-complete dismissal response of this complaint)

Item 3, additional items of concern to TEA:

There are 2 open criminal case investigations into the following situations with G.F.:

1) Fort Worth PD: bloody assault with bodily injury on R.R. on 5-26-2018.  Case #: 180046738

(30 crime scene photos and multiple, detailed police report pages on this open investigation–2 audio recordings from 5-7-2019 prove that both G.F. and R.R. lied to police on 5-26-2018 on the true events that occurred during this assault)

2) Arlington PD: threat on co-worker’s daughter’s life for retaliation by G.F. if she exposed his drug use and assault evidence publicly.  Case #: 2019-****0328

(See Addendum for documentation on this open investigation)

Item 4, summary timelines: 

Timeline of events related to G.F. drug investigation:

4-16-2019:

915am: G.F. breaks up a student fight. Injures his hand.

1020am: G.F. is sent to workman’s comp clinic and ordered to complete a drug test

1055am: Email is sent to Dr Donaldson by co-worker

11am-1pm: text messages are exchanged between G.F. and co-worker where he admits to using cocaine (established in prior conversations between G.F. and co-worker to be cocaine and assumed/understood between the two in these texts that they are referring to his cocaine use) 3 days prior and also marijuana aka “green”, where he admits to “having an idea” (later determined that he asked R.R. to come to clinic and allegedly give him a substitute urine sample that he submitted but failed as “inconclusive for temperature” and afterwards she drove him back to admin building once he refused to submit to a 2nd drug test)

Click this link for these text messages: https://teainvestigation.com/textmessages/

145pm: G.F. meets with Dr. Amos at admin building. Dr. Amos states that the co-worker is an “ex-girlfriend who has given Everman a tip that G.F. uses cocaine”. G.F. is NOT placed on administrative leave and is allowed to freely leave the building at 315pm without having to submit a 2nd sample.

315pm: G.F. leaves admin building and goes to UEA

330-350pm: co-worker drives to UEA, per G.F.’s directive. Upon arrival, co-worker’s phone is taken from her by G.F. and gone through for texts, pictures, recordings, etc.

355-430pm: co-worker is made to sit at UEA and wait for G.F. to talk to his attorney

435pm: co-worker is made to pay $80 at Walgreens for 2 drug tests for G.F.

450-715pm: co-worker and G.F. returns to G.F.’s apartment to take the drug test, and where G.F. tests positive for cocaine and marijuana at his apartment. He harasses, yells, screams and accuses the co-worker of ratting him out and tried to get her to “confess” that she was “the source of the cocaine tip to Everman”. G.F. makes co-worker delete everything in her phone to destroy and hide evidence that could prove he uses drugs, which include the text messages earlier in the day where he admitted to using cocaine and marijuana to the co-worker while he was waiting at the clinic.

(Forensically, the co-worker was able to download a paid app called DiskDigger Pro several weeks later to recover the deleted text messages, but it was too late to submit to Everman, as G.F. had already received his “Settlement Agreement” on 5-4-2019 and Everman was not going to undo the Agreement.)

715pm: co-worker is allowed to leave after several hours of intimidation

4-17 through 4-18-2019: G.F. takes 2 personal days to allow drugs to leave his system

4-19-2019: Good Friday, no school

4-22-2019: G.F. reports to work and works a full day

4-23-2019: G.F. reports to work but is placed on administrative leave by Dr. Amos, where a 2nd time Amos stands by his assertion that the “ex-girlfriend”/co-worker was the source of Everman’s knowledge that G.F. may be using drugs. No 2nd drug test was requested yet again at this 4-23-2019 admin leave meeting.

4-23-2019: Dr Donaldson requests meeting with co-worker, whom she knows is in relationship with G.F., via a Title IX complaint filed with Everman 3-7-2019, to get the co-worker’s statement on any proof she may have that would implicate G.F. for drug use

4-23-2019: A meeting between Human Resources director, Gina Sanderson, Asst Superintendent Dr Felicia Donaldson and the co-worker took place.  A statement was given by the co-worker to these two administrators and, during this meeting, the co-worker mostly kept her head down and cried off and on, fearing retaliation at her job from Everman if she could not provide them what they wanted and fearing retaliation from G.F. if she somehow got proof to give to them.

Later, on 5-7-2019, the co-worker would see at least $500 worth of cocaine in G.F.’s possession in his apartment that he flushes it down the toilet after he called the police after R.R.’s cousin (per G.F.’s assertion) came to G.F.’s apartment to slash his tires.  A recording of more than 4 hours long titled “Shumer Shuffle” is included in this complaint down below that the co-worker recorded while at G.F.’s residence on 5-7-2019. On this recording, you can hear all of this.

4-23-2019 through 5-4-2019: G.F. remains on administrative leave while nothing else occurs in the investigation. G.F. continues to verbally harass and intimidate the co-worker into remaining quiet.

5-4-2019: Everman ISD gives G.F. “Settlement Agreement” with full contract pay, benefits, days, etc and G.F. submits his resignation effective for future date of 5-31-2019. Everman ISD gives G.F. email sent by co-worker on 4-16-2019 at 1055am as “proof” that the co-worker was the source of information that G.F. uses drugs. 

5-6-2019: Co-worker discovers there is a $5 paid app called DiskDigger Pro that can be used on Android devices to retrieve deleted items.  She pays and downloads the app and pulls up every text message and picture she was made to delete on 4-16-2019.

5-7-2019:

Co-worker downloads voice recording app and begins to record conversations after weeks of harassment and intimidation by G.F.

945pm: Co-worker reveals her relationship with G.F. to another of his girlfriends, R.R.  A 40 minute recording takes places, titled “Garage”, where

  1. R.R. volunteers that G.F. “beat her ass” on 5-26-2018 and showed the co-worker gory, bloody pictures of her face where G.F. assaulted her for simply asking about who this L**** person he was texting behind R.R.’s back when she saw the messages on his phone that night (these photos were different than the ones the Ft Worth PD took and were taken by R.R. personally) (L**** was later determined to be L.R., his girlfriend in Odessa, in the 911 phone call requesting a welfare check on G.F. for something unspecified that he did or said that alarmed her on 5-26-2018),
  2. where R.R. and co-worker openly discuss G.F.’s drug use,
  3. where R.R. is given a copy of the salvaged text messages from 4-16-2019 where G.F. admits his cocaine and marijuana use that the co-worker was able to retrieve forensically on 5-6-2019 after being made to delete them on 4-16-2019 at G.F.s apartment,
  4. where R.R. states that G.F. has asked her numerous times to get him drugs from her job as a nurse at a local hospital, and she admits to getting him “tramadol and other stuff”,
  5. where R.R. admits she was present at the time that G.F. submitted a urine sample that tested inconclusive for temperature and does not deny the co-worker’s allegation that R.R. gave G.F. a substituted urine sample to submit instead of G.F’s own, and
  6.  where R.R. states that G.F. put his .45 firearm to his head and threatened suicide, in the context of the night the assault took place on her.

(Please see addendum below for link to Google drive of the “Garage” recording)

11pm to 3am, going into 5-8-2019: Co-worker goes to G.F.’s house, per his insistence and reassurance, despite the co-worker’s fear. A 4 hour recording, titled “Shumer Shuffle” takes place where

  1. he details the facts of the assault he committed on R.R.,
  2. admits to using drugs since college (which would be about 17 years),
  3. where R.R.’s cousin (per G.F.’s identification) slashes his tires at about 2am on 5-8-2019 and G.F. calls the police for what he said was gun shots, and, during the time he is waiting on the police to arrive, he panics and flushes 100s of dollars of cocaine down the toilet in front of the co-worker on this 4 hour recording. Police never arrive as the call was timed out, and
  4. Numerous other situations were discussed in this recording, including how he was already planning on breaking up with R.R. and to leave her behind in the upcoming month of June and to continue a relationship with the co-worker (for reasons specified on a different page), before all this occurred on 5-7-2019, and how the co-worker jumped the gun on his intentions by revealing their relationship and how he expressed yet again to the co-worker that he didnt really love R.R. (Prior to 5-7-2019 and future conversations after 5-7-2019 took place between co-worker and G.F. about his and R.R.’s relationship, many times he expressed that he was “tired” of being in a relationship with her and wanted to end it; but that he feared repercussions if he did so—as he also stated in this “Shumer Shuffle” recording—such as, that if he did, he feared her going to the cops over the assault and also because—and as he also stated in this “Shumer Shuffle” recording—that her cousin supplied G.F. his drugs and a break up would sever this connection. On nearly occasion where conversations between co-worker and G.F. turned to his and R.R.’s relationship he made it very clear he was unhappy with R.R. but, as it will be explained on another page, she provided economic and legal benefits to him that he wasn’t yet willing to give up.)

(Please see addendum below for link to Google drive of the “Shumer Shuffle” recording)

5-8-2019 through 6-5-2019: G.F. seemingly alternates between harassment of the co-worker for threatening to “out him” for the drug use, assault, etc and towards seemingly intimidating R.R. so that she did not turn in the text messages to Everman where G.F. admits to using cocaine and marijuana to the co-worker and to keep R.R. happy so she wouldn’t break up with him for the reasons specified in the prior paragraph. Beginning 5-7-2019, it is during these few weeks that the co-worker begins recording conversations that take place between G.F. and the co-worker to document his threats, harassment and intimidation of the co-worker that had already been on-going for 3 weeks as a result of Dr Amos’ actions.

6-6-2019: G.F. and co-worker meet to discuss her plan to come out about his drug use, assault, etc.  In a 70 minute recording, titled “Bowman” documents this conversation,

  1. G.F. admits to using drugs again,
  2. makes the threat on the co-worker’s daughter’s life if she exposed his drug use, assault etc publicly,

(Please see addendum below for Google link to “Bowman” recording)

6-14-2019: Co-worker files police report with Arlington PD (her city of residence) for threat against her daughter by G.F. and turns in the recordings. APD counsels her on what to do with other recordings, which includes submitting the 2 recordings of R.R.’s and G.F’s confessions of the assault from 5-26-2018 to Ft Worth PD. (She does not do this for many weeks later after the FWPD domestic violence unit reopened the case)

6-19-2019: An 80 minute recording, titled “St Anns” was taken during a meeting between the co-worker and G.F.

  1. G.F. states he wants to make amends and have peace with the co-worker, possibly changing his tactic because threats of violence and weeks of harassment and intimidation were not working to stop the co-worker from taking action,
  2. G.F. and co-worker discuss the threat G.F. made on the co-worker’s daughter’s life on 6-6-2019,
  3. Where they discussed the 6-14-19 call G.F. made to Ft Worth PD where he made slanderous claims to the police that the co-worker followed him and took pictures of him while he was with another woman,
  4. Where he makes claims on 6-14-2019 to the Ft Worth PD that the co-worker called a friend in the Ft Worth PD to stop the police from showing up to the 5-7-2019 call he placed with the co-worker present to his apartment the night he flushed the cocaine down the toilet, and
  5. Where he again admits to using drugs.

(Please see addendum for Google link to “St Anns” recording)

7-29-2019: Co-worker meets with Dr. Amos and Dr Donaldson from Everman. It is in this meeting that the co-worker discovers that neither Amos nor Donaldson filed a complaint with SBEC, TEA or TX DPS against G.F. and the co-worker finds out that no one at Everman ISD had done anything beyond the 5-4-2019 “Settlement Agreement” regarding the situation with G.F.

During this meeting, Dr. Amos does not want to hear any of the negative events that had befallen the co-worker since Dr Amos appears to have purposely botched the G.F. investigation, did not want to see the police reports, denied that he ever told G.F. that the co-worker was the source of the tip, despite many documented incidents that contradict Amos’ claim about this, and where Dr. Amos engaged in what felt like cruel personal insults and attacks on the co-worker for trying to explain all of this to him. 

In this meeting, it was discussed that G.F. had taken another teaching/coaching position in Austin ISD, per an article that was published for Reagan HS/Northeast HS listing him as Varsity Asst Football coach.  Dr. Amos expressed zero concern that G.F. had taken a position in Austin ISD and, instead uses words that DEFENDS and EXCUSES G.F’s drug use and violent behaviors away as “making a mistake”, for the “co-worker to leave the situation alone” and was seemingly encouraged by Amos to do nothing about the educator misconduct by both Amos and G.F. 

Dr. Amos defends G.F. and verbally attacked the character of the co-worker instead and she felt that he tried to cower her down into “not doing anything” about the G.F. situation and to just let it die.  It felt as if to the co-worker that Amos wanted this G.F. situation to remain private and not have public complaints filed.  It was during the meeting, the co-worker decided to file the complaints herself because no complaint was filed by Amos or anyone in Everman. 

(Please see addendum for Google link to recording “Amos 7-29-2019”)

Item 5:

Synopsis of the email sent from the co-worker to the Asst Superintendent Donaldson on 4-16-2019:

After speaking with Dr Donaldson on the phone on 4-16-2019 regarding the events of the fight that morning, where both the student and G.F. were injured when the student was taken down to the ground by G.F. for assaulting another student, the co-worker sent an email a few moments later to the effect of:

“Maybe if not drug screening through workman’s comp, then maybe through CDL and driving the buses? But, he’s been fired from coaching, so I don’t know if he would take the test then”

This email was the ridiculous PROOF ever offered to G.F. that the co-worker was the source of the drug use tip earlier in the morning on 4-16-2019. And this email was sent AFTER G.F. had already arrived at the workman’s comp clinic for his injury and drug test.  The co-worker had no idea that G.F. was even at the workman’s comp clinic until after this email was sent. This email was printed and voluntarily given to G.F. by Everman ISD officials at the 5-4-2019 “Settlement Agreement” meeting.

Item 6:  Timeline of events related to J.T. and the Title IX complaint, and the claims for Educator Misconduct by Amos

2-15-2019:

J.T receives co-worker’s phone number from group email related to planning dept breakfast the previous day

2-16-2019:

Begins texting co-worker at 10am.  Within minutes, propositioned co-worker for J.T.’s sexual attraction to co-worker. 

Between 10am-1030pm: J.T and co-worker exchange 1200+ text messages that begin with J.T.’s sexual advances towards the co-worker despite him being married to another teacher in the district, continuous rebuffs of those sexual advances by the co-worker, confessions he makes of his and others’ educator misconduct and him having sexual relations with 4 female students (the timeline on these sexual relations he claims occurs after they had graduated, but his reference to giving them As while they were his students, and the tone of his text indicate grooming may have taken place while they were his students) and his admissions to sexual impropriety with 3 female staff members separate from the co-worker, and where by J.T. implicates numerous Everman ISD staff and administrators as being complicit in a culture of sexual predation.

2-18-2019 through 3-7-2019:

Co-worker works with her education attorney to draft complaint and gather evidence. Co-worker is encouraged by G.F. to file a complaint and receives his blessing to do so.

3-7-2019: co-worker files Title IX complaint via email to Dr Felicia Donaldson at 645pm

(Please see addendum with Title IX complaint below that was filed with Everman ISD—redacted to maintain victim privacy per federal and state law)

3-8-2019:

830am: Co-worker meets with Dr Donaldson and Superintendent Curtis Amos.  Co-worker runs through the 23 bulleted events leading to the complaint that arose out of the 2-16-2019 texts from J.T.  The last 15 minutes of this meeting she feels harassed and interrogated by Dr Curtis Amos and is accused of tipping off a news outlet about the Title IX complaint.  A 3-8-2019 645am email is printed by Dr Amos as proof that a news outlet was tipped off.  Co-worker defends herself, G.F., a fellow female staff member who was mentioned as another victim in the sexual harassment complaint and anyone else that Dr Amos could think of.  Co-worker denies any knowledge of how news came to be aware of the complaint. 

1130am:  J.T. is removed from the Baseball field and asked to come to Administration building where he was placed on paid administrative leave due to Title IX complaint.

Sometime between 3-19-2019 and 3-27-2019: J.T. is given a “Settlement Agreement” that pays out the remaining 6 months of pay, keeps his leave days and retains health insurance through the district through August 2019. In reciprocation, J.T. agrees to resign effective the end of his contract and remain silent about the contents of the investigation and the “Settlement Agreement”.

3-19-2019:  Dr Donaldson meets with co-worker to give results of Title IX complaint.  22 out of the 23 allegations in the Title IX complaint are dismissed, including all unwanted advances towards co-worker, and only 1 item was found to justify the complaint.  The only item was the unsolicited nearly nude photo of another female co-worker that J.T. alleged he had sexual relations with that was sent to co-worker, and without the knowledge and consent of that female staff member. 

The 2.5 page summary of the denial of 22 out of 23 items in the complaint advances further by

  1. blaming the co-worker for creating a sexual harassment situation and
  2. falsely accuses the co-worker of instigating the sexual harassment texts and items in the complaint, and
  3. falsely alleges that the co-worker is guilty of sexual harassment also and
  4. chides co-worker for participating in the texting with J.T. 

Co-worker attempts to explain that J.T. began very early divulging controversial and explicit information about many Everman ISD staff and his actions and, as a result, the co-worker continued to text with J.T. to allow him space to continue to divulge information that the co-worker quickly determined needed to be turned in to Everman ISD, especially the portion where J.T. admits to sleeping with 4 female students, whether they be former or it happened while they were actively his students. 

Co-worker attempts to address what appeared to be blatant sexism coming from Dr Donaldson that is being used to justify the dismissal of the Title IX complaint: because the co-worker is a woman, it appeared that Everman’s only acceptable preference of how the co-worker should have handled the sexual revelations and advances of J.T. was to tell him to shut up immediately and stop revealing these illegal and unethical things to the co-worker. 

During this meeting, Everman administrators also reference the duration of 1 single day to deny that sexual harassment was “repeated” and “continuous” and, as a result, J.T.s actions and revelations did not constitute sexual harassment.  Title IX complaint is dismissed with the exception of 1 item and nothing else happens with any of the other Everman ISD staff members implicated for their contributions to a culture of nor any of the other victims that J.T. claimed he victimized. 

Zero investigation appears to have been conducted into J.T. admitting to having an erection in class in front of a class of all female students, in full view of those female students and the students exclaimed about his visible erection and that he went to the restroom to masturbate to relieve his erection.   RECORDS INDICATE THAT NO STUDENTS FROM THAT CLASS PERIOD WERE EVER INTERVIEWED. 

Zero investigation appears to have occurred into his admission that he had groomed and had sexual relations with 4 female students (former or active) but Everman ISD administrators seemingly merely took J.T. at his word that he lied about that. 

It appears the motivation behind denying 22 out of the 23 items listed in the Title IX complaint and conducting what clearly appears to be an improper investigation was to prevent a public scandal that could negatively affect Everman ISD’s reputation. 

It appears that Everman accepted J.T’s excuses and lies at face value, as it was the easiest way to conclude the investigation.  Everman ISD CLAIMS that J.T. provided a completely irrational and outrageous excuse that he lied when he snitched on multiple Everman ISD staff, himself, sleeping with students and his extramarital affairs. In the co-worker’s opinion, Everman took the easy way out by taking his claims at face value instead of conducting a proper investigation and making the appropriate reporting to the agencies as Everman ISD should have.  The co-worker felt that Everman ISD insulted and affronted the co-worker’s dignity and reputation by accepting J.T.s lies that he was simply trying to impress the co-worker.  Everman made the co-worker feel completely demoralized and worthless.

It is beyond comprehension that this co-worker would find the following things J.T. told her to be acceptable, as Everman ISD claims it as his self-professed motivation, and, multiple times, the co-worker expressed dissatisfaction, upset, offense or shock at the following items: 1) J.T. sleeping with 4 (former?) female students, 2) the invasion of privacy where J.T. claims the School Board President knew of the co-worker’s and G.F.’s relationship, 3) the multiple invasions of privacy that J.T. himself engages in with the co-worker’s and G.F.’s relationship, 4) the lewd comments that J.T. stated he wanted to do to the co-worker i.e. slap her butt in the hallway at work, 5) the lewd comments about her breasts, 6) discussions that took place behind her back regarding J.T. and other male staff members wanting to do a 3some with her, 7) 6 times she said no to his requests for sexual relations with the co-worker, etc.  It is appalling and sickening that Everman ISD could ever affront the co-worker to such a degree as to accept the excuse that the co-worker was impressed by J.T. doing and saying these things, and to accept his lies outright as truth and fact, without doing a full and proper investigation into claims J.T. made that are criminal in nature i.e. sexual relations with 4 possibly active or former female students. 

The co-worker began to wonder if Everman ISD has a history of covering up scandals within their district and that merely accepting J.T.’s lies as truth so that this Title IX claim could be dismissed is an example of what might be routine procedural happenings in Everman ISD.  By claiming that J.T. was a poisoned source, all other claims he made were null and void with him.  As such, by removing J.T. from Everman as the only action it took against J.T., Everman claims it completed its due diligence into these allegations by removing the poisoned source.  However, the co-worker feels that is absolutely unacceptable, unethical and illegal.  By not reporting J.T.’s educator misconduct to SBEC within 7 days and CPS about the nature and timing of the 4 female students, the co-worker felt that Everman ISD was complicit in yet another attempt to cover another scandal within it’s ranks.

In this 3-19-2019 meeting, Dr Donaldson was present with Gina Sanderson, Director of Human Resources and the co-worker to discuss the outcome of the Title IX investigation.  It was during this meeting that the co-worker re-asserted several times the 3 reasons why her 3-7-2019 Title IX complaint was valid and should be decided in her favor.  In the 2.5 page typed response, typed BEFORE this meeting, and received AFTER this meeting, the co-worker was stunned to discover that not one of her 3 reasons given in this 3-19-2019 were taken seriously by Everman ISD and all 3 reasons were dismissed.

(Please see addendum for audio recording of 3-19-2019 meeting with Dr Donaldson, Sanderson and co-worker)

No reports of Educator Misconduct were ever filed with SBEC regarding J.T.s own admission of unethical sexual predation of any nature, especially within 7 days after the conclusion of the Title IX investigation that the Texas Education Code is bound to, nor was any complaint ever filed with CPS when J.T.s admissions were brought to Everman ISD administrators, who are mandatory reporters under state law.  J.T.’s educator certification remained intact when he left Everman ISD, even though now it has been flagged publicly, and he was freely allowed to take a position in another school district due to the failure to properly investigate and respond with appropriate action in J.T.’s conduct, or into the conduct of other Everman ISD employees who may engage in a culture of sexual predation nor into any of the victims identified as 4 total female staff members and 4 (former?) female students. 

The co-worker felt that it was horrendous that no reports were made by Everman ISD to CPS as a mandatory reporter on the allegation that J.T. slept with 4 (former?) female students.  The only investigation into the allegation that J.T. slept with 4 (former?) female students was merely asking J.T. if he had done so, and the expected response from J.T. was to deny that he had done so, despite his texts bragging that he had done so. 

In possible retaliation against the co-worker……

6 weeks later, when G.F., who was involved in a romantic relationship with the co-worker, failed a drug test after being sent to the workman’s comp clinic after injuring his hand breaking up a student fight, Dr Amos told G.F. that “an ex-girlfriend gave us a tip that you use cocaine” in a possible attempt to shake down G.F. to submit to a 2nd drug test.  G.F. refused for 2 hours after the first failed drug test at the clinic and again for another 1.5 hours at the administration building when G.F. met with Dr Amos. 

It is the co-worker’s sincerely held belief that Dr Amos pointed the blame at the co-worker for this cocaine tip in retaliation for filing a Title IX complaint.  The precipitating event that led to G.F. going to the workman’s comp clinic was the injury to his hand following breaking up a student fight, per Everman ISD policy and procedure. 

It was wholly unnecessary that Dr Amos point the finger and blame the co-worker for G.F.s refusal to submit to a 2nd drug test, nor to use the co-worker as a pawn in any possible game Dr Amos was playing with G.F.  It is the co-worker’s sincerely held belief that Dr Amos willfully and repeatedly placed the personal and professional life of the co-worker at risk for serious bodily injury, harassment and hostile work environment and the co-worker firmly believes it was simply for retaliation for filing a Title IX complaint 6 weeks prior.

Through this J.T. Title IX complaint, 6 weeks prior, Dr Amos knew that the co-worker and G.F. were involved in a romantic relationship and Dr Amos may possibly have used that as a bargaining or interrogation chip to try to persuade, threaten or break down G.F. into giving a 2nd urine sample.  That strategy failed and G.F. never submitted to a 2nd urine sample but this led to weeks of intimidation and harassment for the co-worker by G.F. and resulting in an eventual resignation by the co-worker on 4-23-2019 due to the continued hostile work environment created by Dr Amos when he engaged in perceived retaliation against the co-worker.

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