Don't unfairly penalize this family: K-12 Home Schooling/Angel's Education VS Cal-Works Program/Merced Human Services
- Target:
- Parents, The Poeple, Department of Education. The Court System, The Human Services , snd All People
- Region:
- United States of America
April 24th, 2014 Re: Patricia Freeman, enrollment with CAVA/K12
To whom this may concern:
My name is Kelly Peterson and I am a teacher with the California Virtual Academies & K12. I am writing this letter in reference to Patricia Freeman and her involvement with our school. Her daughter, Angel Calhoun, enrolled with us on 2/11/14 and I am her teacher. My job is to make sure that Angel stays on track with her work and provide any support needed for her and for Patricia as Angel’s learning coach. Angel is a required to have 100% attendance with our school, which is Monday – Friday (with the exception of holidays and traditional school breaks) for an average of 6 or more hours per day.
Patricia’s role as a learning coach is very crucial to Angel’s involvement with our school. It is a requirement that Patricia supervises Angel every day to make sure that progress (lesson completion) and attendance are entered daily into our Online School. Patricia is doing most of the teaching with Angel, while I am available to give any extra support that may be needed. Patricia is also required to be available every day in case I need to contact her and she needs to be available to meet with me in-person every quarter to check on Angel’s progress.
I have attached our enrollment requirements so that you can have all of the information on what is expected of the students and learning coaches with our school. This gives a very detailed description of what our requirements are and how important Patricia’s involvement is.
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact me. You can also call our main office at (805) 581-0202.
Sincerely,
Kelly Peterson
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NOTICE OF ACTION
County of Merced
STATE OF CALFORNIA
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Notice Date: 04/17/2014
Case Name: Patricia Freeman
Patricia Freeman your cash aid will go down on 05/01/2014 , as we told you it would in the Notice of Action sent to you.
After talking to you and/or looking at information you gave us:
• We decided you did not have a good reason for not doing your Welfare to Work assignment; and
• You did not agree to sign a compliance plan as required.
State Hearing: If you think this action is wrong, you can ask for a hearing.
My daughter Angel is currently being home schooled because I removed her from Bellevue Elementary School due to gang activity, cultural/language barriors and bullying. Angel was being treated badly there by groups of all Spanish speaking children (Angel doesn't speak Spanish) and systematically singled out for discipline.
I enrolled Angel in K12 online public school and it has been a huge blessing to us, and Angel is doing great now. The K12 school requires me to be Angel's "learning coach" from Monday-Friday for 6 or more hours per day. The problem lies in that Merced human Services is requiring me to attend Welfare to Work/Cal-Works program from 9AM-4pm Monday-Friday and this conflicts with my being present to coach and teach my child.
The Human Services agency has sanctioned me (lowered the amount of money I receive each month from $515 to $300 and lowered my food stamps from $491 to $347) until I comply and attend the Cal-Works classes. This $515 cash aid and $491 food stamps is all Angel and I get to live on for a month at the present time, and we need every cent to keep a roof over our heads. The results of me enrolling Angel in the Online public school have been a blessing to our family. Angel's attitude has done a total three sixty! She is happily blossoming under my tutelage and excelling in her education.
We have been seeing nothing but positive behavior since I made this decision on Angels behalf. I am Angels learning coach and this requires me to be home with Angel during the same hours as required by Cal-Works. This is an education/work related time conflic8t and I believe I should receive an exemption due to the simple fact that Angel's education at this early stage is by far more important than my attending Cal-Works.
I am asking everyone to help me and my daughter stand up for her education, and OUR RIGHTS by signing this petition and helping in any other way possible. Thanks a million everyone and God bless you all!
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The Don't unfairly penalize this family: K-12 Home Schooling/Angel's Education VS Cal-Works Program/Merced Human Services petition to Parents, The Poeple, Department of Education. The Court System, The Human Services , snd All People was written by Patricia Lee Ann Freeman and is in the category Education at GoPetition.