Week 8 and 9 (final week) of free, fall course provided by A Time To Learn Academy. Sherlene Stevens, Founder and Principal Director. www.easysite.com/atimetolearn

1. Education Choices and Family Court
2015 Fall Course: Week 8 and 9
eLearning Course Sampler of
A Time To Learn Academy
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2. Note
Participate in one of our eLearning samplers (see News &
Courses tab, www.easysite.com/atimetolearn). Our course
samplers are a great asset to first-generation, college
students and homeschooling students. We are providing an
online course environment without the college price. There
are now many accredited grade Pre K-12 schools, and
colleges, that offer full credit hours to their students who
participate in an online course program of study choice.
When requested, all schools should be willing and able to
provide an official education history or transcript (stamped
with its own official organizational seal).

3. Methodology
You may use the hearing-trial excerpts at
http://www.sherleneonline.com/our-education-choices--31/excerpts-of-a-family-court-tr
sample-tool-6767
Or, Audio of Family Court Hearing
Source: State of Maryland | Caroline County Court
eLearning Course Sampler Instructor: Sherlene Stevens
Office Hours: Monday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., other hours
by appointment
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Course Description:
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elearning_welcomeletter.pdf

4. Lecture – Week 8 and 9
Vocabulary
Each course week, create your own listing
of announced words that you had not heard
before taking this course. [Activity]
1. Department of Human Resources (DHR)
2. Human maltreatment
3. Intake caseworker
4. Continuing caseworker
5. Child Protective Services
6. In-Home Family Preservation
7. Safety and protection of kids
8. Safety plan
9. Service agreements with local
departments’ of social services
10. Caseloads
11. Family dysfunction
12. Family disruptions
13. Family self-sufficiency
14. Family independence
15. Family reunification
16. Out-of-home placement
17. Foster care
18. Crisis relief offered to families
19. Case jurisdiction
20. Vulnerable adult
21. Public defender
22. Pro Bono attorney
23. Legal-program assigned attorney
(reduced fee, etc.)
24. Spousal support
25. Incompetent party of a court proceeding
26. Defamation of character
27. Slander
28. Power of Attorney

5. Lecture Activities - Week 8 and 9
Additional facts or information and activities
1. The parents have refused to inform the local board of education of
Caroline County that the children will no longer be homeschooling.
2. Presently, the social service caseworker does not realize that the
children have not transitioned to the local elementary school building.
3. The social service caseworker must be informed of who will be caring
for the children during the day while the father-participant is at work.
4. The mother-participant’s family sets have no room for her to
temporarily reside with them. Contact a shelter in the state of
Maryland.
5. The father-participant arranged for the mother-participant to pick up
their family vehicle. At this time, if necessary, the mother does have a
vehicle to live in (a gray, 7-passenger minivan owned by both parent
participants).
6. Even if you decide to enroll the children at the local school, the
teachers, principal, and the Board will not receive notification of the
situation.
7. If you decide to enroll the children, an educational staff member will
secretly contact the mother-participant (local public-school educator)
immediately by phone.

6. Lecture Activities – Week 8 and 9
continued
1. If you enrolled the children, describe the children’s feelings after their
first day of public schooling. Hint: They are familiar with the public-school
classroom setting.
2. If you enrolled the children, did you support your reasoning based on the
national education laws and policies, or the social service caseworker’s
demands?
3. The children are safer in the traditional learning setting because __?
4. What role will the father-participant’s mistress pursue now that the
mother-participant is out of the home? Will she move into the family’s
home?
5. Describe the mother-participant’s feelings after learning of the mistress?
mistress living in the home (if applicable)?
6. Describe the children’s feelings of attending traditional learning, having
the mother out of the home, and meeting the mistress.
7. If the children met the mistress during the absence of the mother, why
was it so easily allowed by the County and the court?
8. Draw a picture of the family before and after enrolling the children into
school (if applicable). Please use coloring pencils for this assignment.
9. Explain the differences and similarities of power of attorney overseen by
your local state vs. state of emergency procedures (legal actions,
policemen, etc.,)? Please use a Venn diagram chart to explain your
answers.

7. Lesson Activities – Week 8 and 9
Last Page
Strictly a Pretend Activity
The State will notify the entire involved county communities, and the assumed black-
family sets participants that it will now hold power of attorney on their behalf
(including its social service staff and agencies, affiliates, etc.). All families will be
required to enroll their children into a local, public-school setting and receive
services at their local social service agencies:
1. Prepare a rough draft of the letter to be mailed out to the expressed participants.
2. There are several organizational layers and network connections of any state’s
Department of Social Services. Place the following departments in ranking order
by their leadership ability of the Department:
A) Local public-school building staff
B) Local Department of Social Services
C) Local board of education
D) State Department of Human Resources
E) Local Child Care Administration
F) State Department of Education
G) State Department of Labor
H) Local Workforce Investment Agency (WIA)
I) State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Facts
Father-participant is a full-time truck driver.
Mother-participant career background is of a full-time educational staff member.
The completion of kids’ enrollment (local elementary school, day care) is due at the end of Week 8.

8. Venn Diagram Chart
Example List of Similarities
Subject Topic
List of Differences
Subject Topic
List of Differences

9. End of Course Information
You stayed the course and now you are finished!
Great job!!!
A short survey will be made available, the last day
of this course, at our main website.
Note: This is the last time that the particular course
topic will be taught at A Time To Learn
Academy. It will be available in the archive
section of our main website, and SlideShare ™.
There are a total of nine slides of Week 8 and 9.

10. End of Course Information
You stayed the course and now you are finished!
Great job!!!
A short survey will be made available, the last day
of this course, at our main website.
Note: This is the last time that the particular course
topic will be taught at A Time To Learn
Academy. It will be available in the archive
section of our main website, and SlideShare ™.
There are a total of nine slides of Week 8 and 9.