Richard Ross
Richard A. Ross : former RCSD Superintendent
6516 Flaxton Courrt, Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068; phone: 614-759-1871


TOKEN LEADERSHIP

        RCSD administrators attempted to give Superintendent Ross plausible-deniability when they claimed they kept him ignorant of their abuse of disabled students.  However, one would need to believe the following for this to be true:

• That every RCSD administrator besides Ross knew why their district was shut down by Homeland Security.

• That all 41 local superintendents besides Ross knew why their districts were shut down by Homeland Security.

• That Ross did not know that RCSD administrators were sending younger special needs students to other district institutions, while high school special needs students received all their needed services within the RCSD district.

• That only the Director of Pupil Personnel, Mary Ann Frye, and the Special Education Supervisor, Cathy Bregar, knew about investigations into the RCSD by the Ohio Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights.

• That every RCSD administrator besides Ross knew that Excel Academy, Inc. was helping a convict pose as a licensed teacher for Reynoldsburg special needs students.  www.ExcelAcademyOhio.com  

• That Ross did not know that Mary Ann Frye and Cathy Bregar were actively helping the above-mentioned convict.

• That Ross did not know that Mary Ann Frye was receiving additional taxpayer money from an outside educational institution hired to teach RCSD special needs students.

• That Ross did not know that Mary Ann Frye used Reynoldsburg students and their records to compile a study that proves the fiscal savings of teaching special needs students within the RCSD district.

• That Ross did not know that Mary Ann Frye continually ignored recommendations from personal physicians and sent younger disabled students to other district institutions.

• That Ross did not know about the RCSD’s policy of filing charges against special needs students in order to change their placement to other district institutions.  And that the RCSD ordered teachers, administrators and prosecutors to avoid the court hearings after filing these charges.

• That Ross did not know that principals are using the above policy to obtain racial-equality in disciplinary actions.


CHILD ABUSE

• According to Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2151.421, Richard Ross is a Mandatory Reporter of Child Abuse and Neglect.

• According to Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2151.421(A)(1)(a), “No mandated reporter shall fail to immediately report the knowledge or suspicion of abuse or neglect of a child to the public children's services agency or a municipal or county peace officer in which the child resides or in which the abuse or neglect is occurring or has occurred.”

• Click here to see an image capture of the actual email message (March 22, 2007) in which Richard Ross was alerted to a “suspicion of abuse” of a Reynoldsburg special needs student.  There was no reply.  There was no report.  Law enforcement was never contacted.

• This same alert was also sent to the confirmed email address of Mary Ann Frye.

• “False Reporting” could be enforced if officials attempt to “unring the bell” and pursue charges at this time; Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2151.421(G)(b)(2), (H)(3) or Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2921.14.

        PLEASE NOTE: There is no evidence that Richard Ross was directly or indirectly involved in the alleged sexual abuse of the disabled student.  This accusation is not currently being made by any party.