Alberto M. Carvalho – Superintendent Miami-Dade Public Schools

March 27, 2012

Alberto M. Carvalho – Superintendent
Miami-Dade Public Schools
1450 NE 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33132

Miami, Florida

RE: What the Hell were you thinking? – Some comments on your letter to the editor in today’s Miami Herald and is it too late to bring back bastinado?

Superintendent Carvalho,

It is said that during preparations for a battle in the Peninsula War the Duke of Wellington said, after reviewing his troops, “They may not scare the enemy but they terrify me”.

That you are in charge of the nation’s 5th largest school district makes me forget Global Warming, the Taliban, teenage obesity, Iranian nuclear weapons, the heartbreak of psoriasis, and bullying. Fish stink from the head. Your ordure will cause Disney Land to lose bookings this Easter. You raise a stench in the nostrils of honest men that will do away with a generation of sinuses in South Florida

Do you remember the TV show where contestants got to run up and down the aisles of a supermarket? The winner was the one who had the highest value in his cart. Would you believe that I just saw a tape of some of your students from North Miami Beach High School ransacking a Walgreen’s this morning? “Alternative shopping” is what Congresswoman Maxine Walters calls it. She is a shrill lady who gives harridans a bad name. Before she went to Congress she ran a school for wanabee banshees.

Your students were taped at 10:40 AM. They had been released to grieve for Trayvon Martin. The accepted form of grieving for any institution governed by the rules of modern American Liberalsim begins with looting and pillaging. It is too early to know if rape were in this morning’s syllabus. Doubtless, they were motivated by your stirring argumentum ad captandum in today’s Miami Herald.

I hope you won’t think ill of me if I point out that some 3 score feral Black youth from North Miami Beach High School looting a drug store is not the best preparation for the dreaded Florida FCATs.

If you ever get any of the alleged perpetrators back into a classroom rather than a detention center may I suggest a reading of “The Ox-Bow Incident”? Perhaps the really bright ones can have a go at “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

I believe that you are the perfect man for the job. No sense of History, no sense of discipline, and certainly no sense of Justice.

Sense your students have so much free time perhaps you could assign some of them to find out the name of the 6 year old girl – Black – from Chicago who was killed in crossfire between rival gangs – both Black. Do you think she was filled with “hope and promise”?

Maybe you could get your students to run through a church for her. Call ahead to make sure the poor boxes are filled.





Kevin Smith