In re I.T. CA4/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The parents are unmarried and their relationship ended in 2017. In March 2020, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (the Agency) filed juvenile dependency petitions under section 300, subdivision (b)(1) alleging that the children were exposed to violent confrontations in the parent’s homes between Father and his girlfriend, and between Mother and her boyfriend. At that time, a social worker spoke to the director of the Montessori school that the children previously attended. The director indicated that I.T. had not attended school “for the past year” and the school terminated the children due to the parents being inconsistent with the schedule and Father being unsafe because he hugged other students with barber scissors around his neck. When the children had attended school they “were always hungry and without sleep” because of the parents’ fighting. The Agency detained the children in a foster home. In April 2020, the children’s caregiver told a social worker that I.T. was behind in school, knew her ABC’s but did not know how to read. At that time, I.T. had online school meetings twice a week and a teacher provided packets…