Ada Discrimination Case Overview

Heres the situation, Edit with the Docs app Make tweaks, leave comments, and share with others to edit at the same time. NO THANKSUSE THE APP ADA Discrimination Claims against DALLAS ISD (short) ADA Discrimination Claims/Harassment against DALLAS ISD Years of Employment *-* (9yrs) Table of Contents *.Personal Information *.Case Overview a.Brief Description of Claims b.Goals and Objectives c.Current Status of the Case *.Relevant Parties *.Key Documents *.Evidence and Supporting Documents *.Legal Questions and Concerns *.Notes and Observation *. Communication Log *. Additional Information *. **Personal Information** ****erick Whitley */*/* African-American, *’s Lifestyle/Relationship status: Gay/Partnered (White) Contact: * bbminor1983@gmail.com Employed by Dallas ISD from August *-* Doctoral Candidate at Texas A M-references from two of the former APs at Anne Frank Elementary Masters in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies- reference from Moises Mercado, Assistant Principal Site Supervisor, Beverly Ford Head Principal Distinguished Teacher Review Recognition, State Exemplary Distinction, African American Student Mentorship Mentor (Department of Racial Equity of DISD) Destination Imagination Coach, Drama Club Sponsor, United to Learn Fellow, TEI Expert, SBDM Committee Member, Interim PTA President *-*, Lone Star Coach, provided free guitar lessons to Andrea’s son (student) and free piano lessons to faculty’s childrens, free guitar lessons to students and Department Grade Level Chair for Specials since *. Evaluated by Beverly Ford, principal, past the allotted time of 3 years and has excellent TEI evaluation records. No discipline or referral reports. *. **Case Overview** - Brief Description of the Case Throughout my employment at Anne Frank Elementary within the Dallas ISD School district, I have faced numerous traumatic experiences that have significantly impacted both my mental health and my career. These incidents have involved a variety of workplace violations, including harassment, discrimination, retaliation, medical discrimination, invasion of privacy, emotional manipulation, defamation, and negligence. I endured sexual harassment through an inappropriate joke made by my principal, an action that clearly constitute civil violations of workplace conduct. Additionally, I encountered derogatory remarks related to my race and mental health, often accompanied by microaggressions from both my principal and the testing coordinator. This behavior fostered a hostile work environment that profoundly affected my well-being and forced me to resign. I believe the negative actions taken against me—specifically, being blackballed from a promotion when the position of Assistant Principal was available at Anne Frank Elementary and threatened for attempting to get my Principal’s License —amounted to retaliation, which is illegal under various employment laws. Furthermore, my treatment regarding my medical conditions, particularly PTSD and anxiety, seemed to violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), especially given the assignments that could worsen my health issues. Concern grew as I suspected eavesdropping on my conversations by my principal’s supervisor as well as the testing coordinator, raising serious privacy concerns. During a vulnerable period surrounding my Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave, I was emotionally manipulated by leadership, namely Beverly Ford. While this behavior may not be criminal, it reflects a level of unethical conduct that could warrant legal action. Moreover, I believe that false information circulated by my principal about me has significantly harmed my professional reputation. The management's failure to address my grievances regarding bullying and harassment demonstrates their potential negligence in ensuring a safe workplace—a situation I brought to the attention of an assistant principal, Moises Mercado. A number of individuals contributed to the hostile environment I experienced. One individual (testing coordinator) Nick Hoover, frequently made remarks questioning my motives for pursuing leadership, while another (assistant principal) Adolfo Olivares, engaged in mocking behaviors that exploited my vulnerabilities all while the second (assistant principal) Moises Mercado, was sharing information about my concerns of mistreatment all while disregarded my suspicions of wrongdoing and reassuring me of leadership’s character. I have witnesses who can confirm the sexual harassment and bullying claims that have persisted since my arrival in *, issues that were documented by a therapist in *. I have sought help from multiple therapists, including my physician, discussing the bullying, with documented notes from my therapist and physician. Because of these instances I have reason to believe the principal, believing she would be retire in the *-* school year and, therefore not be held accountable, used her authority and position in the power dynamics of principal/teacher and supervisor/candidate to defame and control my future career path, abuse her power and authority for personal reasons and malign my name and credibility among staff and administration within the district, given her notoriety as “Master Principal” of DISD. - Goals and Objectives I wish that these individuals who participated in the gaslighting, blackballing, harassment, emotional manipulation and retaliation are held accountable and face disciplinary actions taken by the district and/or termination from the district, a revocation of state Principal/Administrators and Teachers licenses due to unethical misconduct, and compensation for my emotional distress, defamed professional reputation, having been forced to resign from a position I was well loved in and the on-going and new PTSD treatment I will need and have sought for the foreseeable future; the one that they intended to trigger unsuccessfully, while enwrapping themselves in past and present PTSD trauma and triggers, as well as damages for the career trajectory that was disrupted by their actions. - Current Status of the Case I have filed an inquiry with the EEOC. Inquiry number *-*-* I have filed an Ethics complaint with NAVEX Ethicspoint under DISD anonymously. As of */*/*, the report was closed. *. **Timeline of Events** - Chronological List of Key Dates and Events August *: Moved to Dallas and began working for Dallas ISD at Anne Frank Elementary as music teacher under Principal Heather Holland. August *: Former Coach (Nichols) points to a run-over Black and Mild cigar in the parking lot and says,” Hey Whitley! You dropped something!” witnessed by art teacher, (racial microaggression) August *: Assistant Principal at the time, Beverly Ford, says to other administration, “Look at him. He thinks he’s something with that NYU bag.” March *: Now Head principal, Beverly Ford, harassment witness by Tonya Montoya, then-school counselor. Beverly Ford says in a mocking tone, “You know, one of my boys has anxiety. I walked away in disbelief at her rudeness and insult. Follows me to the front and says, “Whitley knows I’m just playing with him”. “Bullying-Principal” was documented in one of my therapy sessions Dr. Angela Lee, around this time. March *: Reported to the Ethics hotline for Dallas ISD, discussed with assistant principal at the time and friend, Dr. Avril El-Amin, and decided to pull the report a week later out of real fear of retaliation. Dec.*, * Beverly Ford, principal, asks to take a photo with me. An odd request because we were not close during this time. We had just left from taking pictures with Ms. Woodhouse, a teacher who had terminal pancreatic cancer and would die in a matter of months. Once the picture was taken, she took maybe one more to not look suspicious, but hurried back over to Miya Hooper, assistant principal at the time, to gossip and probably show her where she was sending the picture. As I and Romashyn, former teacher at the school, were leaving out early I said to Beverly, “Gotta get back to my puppy!” to which she replied, “I got TWO puppies at home”. Very odd. Again, I think she has made up some narrative in her head where I am in “competition with her sons?” or something completely of her own psychosis. February *, *: Accepted into Accelerated Master’s of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington in pursuit of Masters #* March *, *: Grandmother dies. March *: Discussed with Ford my reservations about traveling to Mississippi and also that I had started a self-guided Adult Children of Alcoholics- * step program. Discussed with my physician (Dr. Johnston) my fear of something not good occurring. Beverly Ford told me to not go and to “protect my peace”. I went and brought along my ESA. My mother revealed after my grandmother’s funeral that the man she had been dating was my father’s drinking buddy; a man who participated in the progression of my father’s disease and spoke at his funeral. March *, *: Woke up and realized the betrayal of my mother and proceeded to hug and say “I love you” to my mother, but refused her kiss as she cried at the door and I left to return to Dallas, without incident. March *-*, *: Dallas ISD Spring Break Mon, Mar *, *, *:* PM Reached out via Email to Life Works for counselor assistance Tues, March *: Exchanged messages with physician March *, *: Had a conversation with Beverly Ford, unaware that testing coordinator, Nick Hoover was listening in on the call where I revealed my history with my father, mother and anxiety, PTSD diagnosis as well as other personal and sensitive information. She had encouraged me to “Let people in” and also said, “We care”. I believed she was offering support. Check their call log and records. Mines shows an incoming call around 7pm. March *, *: Began correspondence with current therapist. April *, *: Submitted my request for FMLA to Lezandra Ortega at Life Works/ In contact with my physician. Nurse Smith at the school recorded my blood pressure at */* and sent me home. April *, *: Anniversary of my father’s passing./In contact with physician/ contacted Counselor name: William Lockhartt *:* PM through Employee Assistance Program April *, *: Correspondence with physician/Began correspondence with Ziks Health Services April *, *: 8am video visit with physician/ Teresa Diaz, Disability Case Manager for LifeWorks via Dallas ISD received via email confirmation for FMLA beginning April *, *. April *, *: Correspondence with Dr. April *, *: First visit with psychiatric NP Pauline George on */*/* at *:* am/Formally Diagnosed with PTSD, along with pre-diagnosed insomnia, severe anxiety, depression April *, *: Appointment with therapist April *: Teresa Diaz emailed Beverly Ford and benefit leaves in Dallas ISD, informing them of my approved leave, effective from April * to April *. Would later be extended. Emailed Teresa Diaz and said that my doctor would be returning on */* and I need an extension. April *, *: Received extension form from Teresa Diaz April *, *: Session with therapist April *, *: Shared Specials Schedule for the school to Beverly Ford April *, *: Session with psychiatric NP Pauline George Beginning of the manipulation and blackballing April-May *: Asked Beverly Ford to be my Site Supervisor for my Master’s and Principal licensure program and she agreed May *, * I sent Mercado my Facebook profile name. He’d asked to send me something about student loans, which he could have sent through text message, but insisted that he use messenger. Early June *: Ford makes a joke about my penis size during summer school *, witnessed by Mr. Velasquez, office assistant, Berto Gilliaoti, Teachers assistant, Carla Ford, PE teacher, Miya Hooper, assistant principal at the time, was being transferred to another school. The four of us also made a joke about a misspelling in a mission statement on some other principals’ mission statement. Begins saying and having other employees, Katy Turck, Jenni Mitchell, saying, “you’ve got to be mentally, psychically and emotionally stable.” Said it so much, it became like a tagline. Beverly Ford mentioned that she discussed it with Assistant Principal Adolfo Olivares’s partner at their wedding reception and he agreed, “One has to be physically, mentally and emotionally stable to be a principal.” June *: Beverly Ford said in front of Mercado, “Whitley, I know what your strength is, your confidence. But you see, the thing about strengths is that they can be worked on too.” I could tell by her tone that she didn’t mean that in a good way. Also said, “I saw a guy and he was just like you. I said to myself, "he reminds me of Whitley”, something I took to mean that the man she was referring to was gay. June *: Beverly Ford wanted to enact this action of blackballing and defamation, because when I first set in her office with Moses Mercado, assistant principal at the time, I clearly stated that I did not want to be a principal, but that l could serve in an assistant principal role, but she insisted. Between her and Mercado, they kept saying “Oh no, you can do it.” And Mercado said, "It's not like you’ll be there by yourself” when I expressed concerns about me being a novice to the role, he said, “someone will always be with you to help you make decisions”. It is in this way that I feel Beverly Ford encouraged me so that she could take pleasure in defaming and blackballing me . I had once told Mercado when he was in a Principal’s program that he should “get what he can from her that was good, but to not pick up her dirty ways”. June *: Ford says, “I’ve been waiting to work with you Whitley” witnessed by Mercado, assistant principal. “We’re gonna work on your confidence….running up to the cars, laughing and playing with the parents.” Mercado mentions AI to me to use. Says that I could just “copy” his work, which I did not. June * I gave Beverly Ford a warning about her sneaky behavior. I recounted an experience with a previous principal who engaged in unethical practices, indicating my awareness of professional boundaries and the importance of integrity in leadership. June *: Ford tells the story about the crow and the eagle, inferring that I was the crow because she did not confirm when I asked, “So we’re the eagles?” June *: While walking out of the door of Ford’s office, I say, “I can really help kids considering the trauma I’ve been through with my father”. She interjected and said, “No! The trauma with your MAMA!” and “Yes. Lead with that!” and “BUT I DON’T have any trauma”. June *: Told me the tale of the Eagle and the Crow, where the crow was jealous of the eagle. It was a thinly veiled insult towards me. She made references to being not being “discerning”. “You have to know when to go, when to stay, move a little, move a lot…so much uncertainty”. Uncertainty had been mentioned to me earlier by Nick Hoover who said, “We know you don’t like uncertainty.” Ford says in her office. “You know, some people do it for the money. Some people do it for the power!” referring to my intentions for attempting to get my principal’s license. Katy Turck, 5th grade teacher and best friend to Beverly Ford said and continued saying up to June * in some form, “Yeah. I have my license but I didn't want to have to deal with the parents” Week of June *-* First Week of Summer Cool (School) I went for a break in Nick Hoover and Mercado’s office. Mercado was not present. I sat down on the couch and began a casual conversation with Nick about nothing of particular importance, in a normal tone when he interrupted and said, “Whoa! Calm down buddy!” with hands up in the air. It was an unsuccessful attempt at gaslighting. Once I’d dismissed his overreacting, he proceeded to ask me why I wanted to be an assistant principal, a question that he continued asking me throughout the school year whenever I would come and visit him. I believed he was trying to record me. I would insist that I would take an AP position to help out and was really more focused on becoming a fine arts coordinator, something Beverly Ford told me I didn’t need an administrative license to do, which was a lie. Summer *: I went into Ford’s office and cried to her about missing my mother. Immediately after I left out crying, Kimberly Price, former teacher at Anne Frank and now district employee in another capacity, ran in and began giggling, as if they had discussed something and she thought the plan was in motion.. July *, *: Called Mercado upset because I was encountering “resistance” from her, Beverly Ford in my learning the role of a principal. He said to call her. I called Ford around *:55PM, where she immediately put me on hold, and if her records are checked, I believe called Educational Director Temesghen Asmerom, who eavesdropped on the call as Beverly Ford insinuated and tried bait me into saying I was emotionally unstable, using the phrase “You have to be mentally, physically and emotionally stable to be a principal, multiple times while also praising herself on how great of a principal she was. Said on the call, “It’s about the protection and safety of these babies” to which I replied, “What? Do you know why I became team-lead? To keep the peace!” She then relented and said I was, indeed, a leader. As she got off the phone, when I asked her to vet me, she replied, “Oh, we're gonna beat you down!” I also said in this call, as a signal to Asmerom, “I know what I’m doing. It’s just that you fill me with such ‘trepidation’”, a signal to Asmerom that I was intelligent and also “scared” of Beverly Ford. July *, *, *:* pm Texted Mercado earlier. Mercado mistakenly sent me a screenshot of our conversation where I asked for Carole Charlemont’s number, he gave me her email. I suspect this screenshot was meant for Beverly Ford. July *, *: Texted Mercado and said, “Still gonna switch to you” regarding his offer to be my Site Supervisor instead of Beverly Ford. July *, *: Began taking notes and sending to myself under the email subject titled, “Just In Case” where I disclosed my suspicions as Ford was not really helping me and was making fun of mistakes I made.” Also began conversing with Asst. Principal/ former peer group member, Moises Mercado, where he reassured me that I should “trust her” as she “had the biggest heart he knew.” August *, *: Texted Mercado *:00PM, “Dude I’ma share with you. I have cried at least * times today because I feel like I am having to defend myself against so many people right now in my life, my mother, my brother, my boss and my friends.” “I’m tired, I'm sad, I want to ask people for help but they’ve done me wrong.” “ I’ll level up with you even more. The fact that I feel like I can’t really trust anyone right now doesn’t make me feel good at this point in my life with all that’s going on”. I was referring to Beverly Ford as my site supervisor. August *: Beginning of the school year professional development, we have a presenter presenting on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which, I found was odd as that is something that I do in my talk therapy. I turned to Beverly Ford and said, “I do that in therapy!” I was sitting beside Carla Ford. Beverly Ford looked down at me and said, “Uh-huh! I got one more surprise.” At the time I didn’t know what she was referring to, but as she was intending to retire at the end of *, I now surmise that it was the blackballing or relocation. Asmerom, educational director, was in attendance. He gave a speech to the school staff where he said things like, “My father pushed for my education” and “You don’t have to be scared of Beverly Ford.” This made me believe that my suspicions of him being on that phone that night and listening in were true, as he referenced his father (akin to my loyalty to my own father) and “not being scared of Beverly Ford” (a direct nod to when I said she “filled me with trepidation”. August *, * *:00am: Text to Beverly Ford who wanted me to come to a Principals meeting. I’d initially told Mercado, “ I’m not about to go into the lion’s den” but he convinced me to come. Beverly Ford seemed disappointed as we all were just sitting in the auditorium and when I mentioned the meeting she said “Don’t worry about it” Fall *: My field supervisor for the University of Texas at Arlington, Mr. Brian Devaux made the comment, “You see, there’s an eagle and you got the crow, you gotta fly high like that eagle.” in reference to my efforts in my degree. I’d later graduate with all A’s and one B. *Beverly Ford worked with Brian DeVeaux’s wife in some capacity. Beverly Ford started saying this in different ways, “Whitley and I are friends! We share music.” In a not genuine voice. I took her tone to mean, “He thinks we’re friends.” Fall *: Beverly Ford and I were walking down the hall and she said, “You know, I don’t think you should quit” referring to the comment I made to Mercado about not pursuing the principal’s license. She also said to me, walking down the hall, “You know there are more and more people like you in Education Leadership positions.” “I had been teaching just about 13 years when I decided to become an assistant principal”. She even mentioned a former assistant principal, Ms. Patrice Layne, and asked me if I wanted to go over to her school to be an assistant principal.” What do you think about going over there to Layne?” (She mentioned her because I told Mercado that Layne was the only reason I was able to get Distinguished teacher recognition because under Ford’s evaluations, I’d always come short by a point or so. I know because it was a day or so after I’d said that to him. Layne had said to me once, “You should have been DTR.” to which I replied, “I know”. January *, *: Harlem GlobeTrotters come to Anne Frank Campus as well as Asmerom, educational director and Beverly Ford’s supervisor. This time, he makes a point to make eye contact and roll his eyes at me, in disgust. He made it a point to do it, twice. Mercado mentions, “Nice outfit!” as he must have suspected that I suspected being announced as the new assistant principal that day. January *, * Skyline High School: Ms.Carol Charlemont, Early Childhood Coordinator for DISD (I believe the Anne Frank Early Childhood Campus) and was a year earlier in the UTA program, used Beverly Ford as a site supervisor as well, was at the Destination Imagination shirt pick up, when she avoided eye contact with me and began whispering out the side of her mouth to a man who was sitting beside her, I could tell it was about me by the glances she had given me. Prior, I had a meeting with her to help guide me on my action research project for my Master’s. It was apparent that Beverly Ford had said something derogatory about me for Ms. Charlemont’s behavior towards me to change. We had always been cordial. February *: I was requesting to do a presentation for a professional development on “Storytelling for Teachers”. I observed it written on the whiteboard in Nick and Mercado’s room. Beside it, in Mercado’s handwriting was written the question, “What?”, as if the idea was stupid. He never expressed this sentiment in words, but, this is when I started noticing that Mercado wasn’t the friend he claimed to be. I observed, while talking to Nick Hoover one day, Mercado gave Hoover a look as he packed his backpack to leave. The look indicated “Look at this guy.” They didn’t notice that I saw it. February *, *: Sponsored Fieldtrip for 4th graders; was responsible for taking them to the TBAAL; debunking her claims of “protection and safety of students” being in danger. She signed off on the trip. Winter *-Spring * Beverly Ford is recognized by the district as a “Master” principal, a recognition that comes with an increase in salary if she would remain on for the next school year, *-*. People, Mr. Patti, Mr. Craine, Ms. Valdez, Ms. Miramuhhamad began coming up to me asking if I was planning on being a principal? Here? And even, “You know, I’m thinking about getting my Masters’ “What do you think about that?” to which I would always encourage them as I knew Beverly Ford had sent them to minimize my accomplishment, to say to me, “you’re not special” “you're not doing anything anyone else can’t do”, an attack by proxy to my “confidence” by my “site-supervisor”. Also around this time, the assistant principal position that Miya Hooper’s relocation had left vacant was locked to only AP’s and principals needing to be placed, essentially, I could not apply. February *, *, Beverly Ford insisted I join a principal’s Zoom meeting at *:* am. Spring *: Sat down in her office, asking her for some resource or support towards my action research project. She says out of the blue before I could get a word out, “Ya know, I could have gone up in the district if I wanted to” and I remember thinking, “This isn’t about you”. Beverly Ford begins to say things like, “Now let me know as soon as you get that license!” and “I know exactly where they should put you.” “Oh, you gonna have you a brand new bunch of friends” in a tone that was more “I’m gonna show you!” Around this time Nick Hoover would say, “Get that resume ready”, Melissa Martinez, “You never know when they’ll pick you up and move you. Got to be ready!” Spring *: Her niece, someone who works in the Central Administration Office, is introduced to me as such. “This is my niece. She works downtown, in the Central Office. She was thinking about getting her Masters”. To which I would reply,” Oh nice, well you should!” and began to tell her about classes and things. Ford cut short the conversation short when her niece gave her an affirming nod. Week of May *, *: On morning duty, Ford, Mercado and Hoover stood by the entrance door to the school, their normal spots. I walked past, said, “Good morning” and went to my post, which was just in earshot of them. Daniel Vaughn, Jonathan Walker were also on duty. I heard very clearly Beverly Ford turn to Mercado and Hoover and say, “Watch this!” then to me, “Whit! Everything okay? You looked a little down last week. Everything alright?” She was referring to the week after Mother’s Day in an attempt to ‘trigger’ my PTSD. To confirm my suspicions, Mercado immediately looked to the ground and shook his head in disbelief, as in “how could she?” or “that was wrong.” My former peer, now assistant principal, did not intervene or object to what she had done to my knowledge. May-June *: Beverly Ford continues to make veiled threats by saying, “Let me know the moment you get that license now! Tell me as soon as you get it!” “I know exactly where they're gonna put you!” She would say this in front of people, when we were alone in the hallway and in front of her friends, Katie Turck and Melissa Martinez. This was in retaliation for me attempting to get the principal’s license. June *: Summer school- Mercado asks if I want to sit in some interviews. I said okay. I receive a call from Olivares during Summer school and as I answer it, he’s giggling and I hear Ford in the background. He says, attempting to cover up the fact that he was just laughing, “Ms. Ford wants you to come on down for the interview”. When we get in the interview, Ford as she enters the room, sits beside me and says, “Let me sit over here so I can kick, Whitley!” and “Well, we like to promote our own.” giving me a glance. Bait for some plan she had. She asked the interviewee the question, “What would you do if someone was bothering you or you had a disagreement with another staff member?” To which the interviewee replied, “Well, I’d go to that person, face to face, and ask them if there was something wrong and etc”. Ford gave a confirming nod as if to say to me, “She wouldn’t come to me and complain about bullying like you’ve done.” Upon leaving the room, Olivares stopped Ford and said, “We have a few more interviews. The next one is for a teacher’s position.” She replied, in a smug tone, “Oh, I’m only doing the one’s for AP (assistant principal). All of this was meant to be a snub to my face, a tortured event where I had to sit and watch all the candidates and feel “upset” that I wasn’t going to even be considered. June *, *: While working summer school, I took a break, as I’d normally done before in Nick and Mercado’s office. It is then that Nick Hoover said in reference to the assistant principal job being locked, “It’s all for the best. Ya know, considering that thing you have against White people and, ya know, that whole mental illness thing. We wouldn't want you taking it out on anyone.” I was immediately offended and said, “It’s not that I would take it out on anyone, Nick. It’s that I don’t trust anyone.” to which he looked away as I continued to talk about my partner Nathan, a white man, and how I loved him because he was trusting and patient. At *:* am, I received a call from Assistant Aldofo Olivares, who, as I answered the phone, was ending a conversation with Beverly Ford, and was giggling as he invited me to an assistant principal interview. It’s my belief this was meant to be some kind of “torture”; to witness others interview. During the first interview, Beverly Ford entered the conference room and said, “Let me sit over here by Whitley, so I can kick him!” She asked the interviewee what she would do if she had a problem with another staff member. The interviewee said, “I would go to the person and ask them if we could discuss what was going on.” Beverly Ford liked this answer and gave a smug look. I took this to mean that she didn’t approve of me coming to her to tell her about the microaggressions and bullying. I went to Beverly Ford about these things because that is her job, but she diminished my accounts of bullying, even encouraging me to “Don’t do anything.” when referring to the bullying I incurred in my first years as grade-level chair. Beverly Ford also said, “We like to grow our own, here” and gave me a side glance.” I believe this was alluding to the plan to relocate me, as Nick had said earlier, “Get that resume together, buddy!” June *: While providing a water break to Katy Turk, I sat with the students and assisted them with their schoolwork. While I did so, Nick Hoover walked past Turck’s door, turned his head and gave a quick, sneaky smirk towards Katy Turk, who was preparing to leave the room for her break. I observed him, but he didn’t notice me looking back. As a child who grew up in an alcoholic household, I am very on guard, discerning and hyperalerted. I listen and observe many things in my surroundings very closely as they once determined my safety or alerted me to upcoming chaos as a child. June *: Kim Price and Beverly Ford are standing at the entrance doors of the office and Kim Price is looking at the ground trying not to laugh, but failing, and Beverly Ford is trying to keep a serious face, but failing as well. I knew it was something about her plans for me, but pretended not to notice.I called Kim Prince, saying I was just calling because I saw her number and said I never call Kim. She immediately went into how she stays to herself and she was being a good friend because she was on her way to her friend who was crying. Her tone and the things she said referenced her not being a part of something and it was very suspicious. June *: The day before Assistant Principal, Adolfo Olivares left to go on vacation, I was walking through the office, looking for Mercado as he had insisted that he’d put me down as an “administrator” for summer school (but had me doing teacher’s assistant work like laminating and moving boxes) to offer my help with any work that he needed done. Beverly Ford was going into the copier room across from her office and she said, “You looking for something to do?” I said, “Yeah” she said, “Here. Find the grammatical errors in the CIP (Campus Improvement Plan). An odd request and definitely not one of administrative tasks, I spent the next several hours finding the spelling errors. I returned the CIP plan to her as she was sitting in her office with AP Olivares standing in front of her. She says to him, “Look at him! He’s so disciplined! He read the whole thing.He’s so disciplined” I walked away but out of the corner of my eye, I saw Beverly Ford give him a look of disgust. Moments later, Adolfo Olivares, found me on the stage and began mocking me, saying,” You see what I did? I moved the books over here and over here. Like I did. See, it’s how I did it. Like me. How I did it.” emphasizing the “I” as if to mock me. I’m assured that this bullying and harassment was encouraged by Beverly Ford and the lies she has said about me. June *: I came into her room to ask her something and she was on the phone with her son, someone that I don’t really know and never really spoke to outside of her forcing situations in which this would have to happen. She turned the phone to face me, on Facetime, and I was thrown into a conversation with her son, for no reason, other than for her to exert control and humiliate me in front of her son. I believe Melissa Martinez was standing behind me in Beverly’s doorway. June *: Often, if Beverly Ford was within earshot of me and some other person on campus ‘connecting’ or laughing and joking, she would appear. In the copier room, one day, with Mr. Crain, we were talking and he, at that time, said, “You know I’m thinking about getting my Masters” to which by this time, I’d become well aware of Beverly’s attempts to damage my confidence and reduce my successes, encouraged him to do so as ‘it strengthens your skill set’. Immediately Beverly Ford walks in, while playing on her phone, ‘To Be Real’ and she sits beside me and she says, “Got to be real!” and “Me and Whitley share music. We are friends!” to which I replied, “I just applied for my doctorate.” Her mouth dropped open. Just looked at me in disbelief. I left the room. June *,*: I called Mercado and told him that I would be resigning. He asked why and I said, “Why would I want to work for someone who would actively try to trigger my PTSD?” To which he replied, “I don’t remember that!” to which I said, “Yes, you do. Because you looked down at the ground and shook your head like you couldn’t believe she had just done that. And, the same way you kept your mouth shut then and didn’t say anything about it is the same way I need you to keep your mouth shut now.” I then went on to tell him he was the only one I could even half-trust in the administration by this point and that I need him to be a reference as my former supervisor. He agreed and added, “You can learn from bad leadership just as much as you can learn from good leadership.” June *, *: Beverly Ford calls me and says someone told her I gathered my things in a rush and left and it was about something she had said? I took a long, pregnant pause as I was trying to think of a way to address this question. I decided to ask her, “Well, who was it?” She replies, “It was just someone.” Mercado. I took another pause and said, "Well, what did they say?” She says, “Well they said it was about me and if I said something, and I made a mistake and I’d like to try and fix “it”. I said,”That’s nice”. She then told me of her availability before her break began. I knew it was just a ploy to keep control and power over me June *,*: I officially resigned from my position at Dallas ISD. I stated the reason for leaving: ‘Personal and Professional’. I left under duress and from the hostile work environment that she had created and intended on intensifying until she retired, the threat of ‘relocation’ disguised as a reward, her spreading rumors and lies about me among district supervisors and other principals August *,*: Filed a report with the Ethics service used by DISD. August *, *: Filed an Inquiry with the EEOC/waiting on availability August *, *: Call from Cylla Dupre, computer lab teacher, informing me that Jenni Mitchell, gifted and talented teacher and close friend to Beverly Ford and now grade level chair for the Specials department went to both the PE teacher, Phillip Pacheco and Cylla Dupree to try and obtain information about the potential lawsuit against Beverly Ford. August *, *: Filed complaints with the Office of Civil Rights and the department of Complaints and Investigations with Texas Educators Agency. *. **Relevant Parties** Here’s a list of individuals mentioned in my account, along with my description of their involvement: *. **Beverly Mullins Ford (Principal)** - She was the main perpetrator in my experience. Beverly manipulated my situation during my FMLA leave to blackball me, damaging my reputation and career opportunities within the district. *. **Nick Hoover (Testing Coordinator)** - A friend of Beverly and Mercado, Nick often questioned my motives for wanting to be an assistant principal and made derogatory comments about my mental health and attitudes towards race. *. **Kimberly Price (Former Teacher)** - She worked closely with Beverly and witnessed the derogatory behavior aimed at me. Kimberly made a disrespectful comment about my hair, which I took as an insult. *. **Moises Mercado (Assistant Principal)** - Once a peer, Moises encouraged me to trust Beverly, despite my suspicions. He witnessed her attempts to provoke my PTSD but said nothing to defend me. *. **Tonya Montoya (Former Counselor)** - Tonya once offered me support after witnessing bullying behavior, but later distanced herself from Beverly Ford. *. **Orlando Velasquez (Office Assistant)** - He witnessed sexual harassment jokes during the summer school session, which contributed to a toxic environment. *. **Miya Hooper (Former Assistant Principal)** - Miya observed inappropriate remarks and interactions involving Beverly and me. She was aware of the underlying tension and knows where Beverly sent a Christmas party photo of Beverly and I. *. **Alberto Giglianni (Teacher’s Assistant)** - He was present during the sexual harassment jokes and can attest to the hostile atmosphere. *. **Carla Ford (P.E. Teacher)** - Carla also witnessed the sexual harassment joke during summer school, which added to the overall discomfort I felt. *. **Temesghen Asmerom (Educational Director)** - He was on the phone with Beverly on July *, *, when she tried to suggest that I was emotionally unstable. I could tell he was being used as leverage during our conversation. *. **Melissa Martinez (Parent Liaison)** - Melissa is close to Beverly and made veiled threats about my job security. *. **Adolfo Olivares (Assistant Principal)** - Adolfo participated in behaviors that belittled me *. **Mr. Brian DeVeaux (Field Supervisor)** - Despite being connected to Beverly, he supported me during my practicum and showed no bias in his feedback, valuing my work and character. *. **Terry Smith (Custodian)** - Terry surprised me by sharing personal details about my life, seemingly influenced by Beverly’s conversations. *. **Katie Turck (5th Grade Teacher)** - As Beverly’s best friend, Katie knew about the negative dynamics and participated in the undermining of my attempts at obtaining my principal's license. *. **Carole Charlemont (Coordinator for Early Childhood Learning)** - After helping me with a project, she whispered something malicious about me, which suggested she had been influenced by Beverly's negative portrayal of me.

Yes, no one took the case so i went to tbe eeoc who is investigating