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| Carrie E. Johnson, Paralegal Student RCCD program requirements (reflecting Legal Aspect of Real Estate as an elective here) |
Carrie E. Johnson initially began her undergraduate studies at Riverside Community College in the summer of June 2008 and not a moment earlier. It would be her first time attending a California college, despite Crafton Hills Community College being the original school for attempting to attend a registered orientation in 2004 to take classes on their college campus. Her Yucaipa, California car accident altered her course in life that led to enrollment with RCC in 2008 that would be before her first pregnancy. Carrie held no prior existing knowledge of anyone from Redlands East Valley High School ever attending or presently enrolled at what is now considered Riverside City College throughout her course of enrollment with the school. There are no faculty members, administrative staff or students at Riverside City College related to Carrie by blood or by marriage of any kind from June 2008 to Fall 2011 or present enrollment. She would only have a memory of her mother, Barbara attending San Bernardino Valley college following the mortgage crisis in which the unemployment department requested an activity of participation from her mother to receive benefits that was paying the rent for the Orange Village Apartments in Redlands, California. Carrie’s daughter would be a toddler at her time of enrollment at RCC from June 2008 to Fall 2011 that was in her custody only. Nor would Carrie ever want her daughter to attend RCC based on her experience with the school that will be outlined in state bar and judicial complaints against appointed attorneys and judges that were involved in her illegal juvenile dependency court case and attorneys external to that court case that she has never had any business dealings with, no friendships with legal people, no partnerships with, no verbal/written agreements with and no romantic (especially certain races of men!) relationships with. Carrie has no personal relationships or professional relationships with any faculty members, administrative staff or students at Riverside City College, as Carrie was only a student enrolled from June 2008 to Fall 2011, Fall 2023 to Spring 2024 and Spring 2025 to present enrollment. She was employed one semester at RCC, as a reading tutor for Professor Sandoval in 2009 with verification of employment that can be viewed here. Although Carrie held prior enrollment with the University of Phoenix for the Saint Louis, Missouri campus, she would not return to the school that could not be considered an act of “academic dishonesty” for not disclosing transcripts to RCC since there would not be any courses transferable from UOP anyway towards her college major.
Financially it made more logical sense to attend a tuition-free local community college in California, as Carrie was eligible through prior attendance at Redlands East Valley Highschool and Colton-Redlands-Yucaipa Regional Occupational Program. Carrie would reference her experience possibly in class discussions of her prior-military experiences, but RCC would not acquire an official military transcript from Carrie until 5/18/2023 that cannot be considered an act of academic dishonesty for withheld academic transcripts, as there would be no transferable credits applicable to her college major at RCC. She would not utilize the veteran’s services department at RCC at all from June 2008 to Fall 2011 because the CalWORKs/EOPS-Care program as well as other departments would assist her in educational materials for her required degree courses. Carrie would only utilize the veteran’s services department at other local community colleges that will be listed in State Bar complaints against several individuals that do not hold a law license that she suspected of UPL along with several holding themselves out to the public as lawyers or solicitors in the United States. Carrie would reach out to the veteran’s services department at RCC by email only, upon her return in the fall of 2023 just in case she needed assistance with course materials towards her registered classes. For example, the PAL-65 course required the purchasing of a training software program, and she would receive a scholarship from the National Society for Legal Technology to cover the cost of the training software to complete the semester course. Therefore, Carrie has yet to utilize assistance from the veteran’s services department within Riverside City College regarding course materials for registered classes. As for Carrie’s CRY-ROP courses taken in high school that she truly forgot about are still not in RCC’s admissions and records department, as Carrie has not put in a request to CRY-ROP to have those official transcripts sent to RCC.
With a declared major in paralegal studies, Riverside City College paralegal program consisted of 37.5 units to complete as well as complete the general education requirements towards an associate degree. One of Carrie’s primary objectives at RCC was to graduate with her associate degree within the shortest amount of time possible and with the least amount of student loan debt. It is safe to say that while attending RCC, Carrie has never taken out student loans and was possibly awarded a scholarship through a written essay. From June 2008 to the Fall of 2011, Carrie was required to have all instructors for registered courses sign-off on attendance sheets monthly for every month of the semester that she was enrolled in classes, as a CalWORKs participant. Regardless of if an RCC instructor remembers it or not, San Bernardino County Welfare Office would possibly still hold in their records those attendance sheets and course syllabuses for each courses taken that Carrie received childcare assistance for her attendance at RCC from 2008 to 2011. Therefore, Carrie was never confused about what the purpose of pursuing a higher level of education meant to her and increasing her personal finances as a single-parent and before her daughter was even born as an individual. Before and after Carrie’s daughter’s birth, her actions demonstrated the need to enroll in college in 2004 with Crafton Hills Community College registered orientation and the University of Phoenix in 2006, following the birth of her first child in 2005. Now the first level of required paralegal courses at RCC consisted of the following: (BUS-18A) Business Law 1, (PAL-10) Introduction to paralegal studies, (PAL-64) Legal Research & Computer Applications, (PAL-65) Law Office Technology and (PAL-68) Civil Litigation Procedure 1. According to RCC’s student portal that holds a record of who taught each course registered, the first level lacked in diversity that would reflect two white male instructors, a white female instructor and one black female instructor that was spread out over the course of 5 years of attendance.
Leading the Riverside City College paralegal program is a black female instructor and is someone that Carrie vaguely remembers. Since Carrie took possibly three courses with Professor Judon, she received a passing grade in Business Law 2 fully online course as well as Law Office Policies that had a thin textbook for the course. The quality of teaching received by Professor Judon, as described by Carrie, was standard and burdensome distractive busy work. Meaning, the paralegal instructor at RCC taught from the required paralegal textbooks and power point slides that do not need modification to the slides from law publishers like Cengage or Aspen unless there was a change in law. Therefore, Carrie can only attest to her experience with Professor Judon as a paralegal instructor within an academic setting. Although Riverside City College offers college courses fully online, hybrid or on-campus, the paralegal program does not distribute the required courses evenly to accommodate various demographics for the fall and spring semester major terms in diverse formats mentioned above. As for the required 9 units in electives, Carrie took three electives in the order in which the courses were offered on summer or winter intersessions and not because she had a genuine interest in learning about the paralegal electives that she took. While enrolled at RCC from June 2008 to the Fall of 2011, Carrie would not engage in professional networking events either in-person or virtually as her first objective was to graduate in the shortest amount of time possible and with the least amount of student loan debt. It was not a requirement to engage in professional networking events, while concurrently enrolled in paralegal courses under the California Business & Professions Code Section 6450. Therefore, Carrie’s daughter was never a distraction from her academic studies that the San Bernardino County Welfare Office was paying for childcare services for the purpose of either school, employment or CalWORKs eligible approved activity that would include study hours for each course attended in-person or online.
(PAL-10) Introduction to paralegal studies was being taught by a local family law attorney at the early stages of Carrie’s paralegal education and he would be the first white male representation of her paralegal education as well. (PAL-64) Legal Research and Computer applications was taught by an older black female that Carrie would see in the early stages of her paralegal education as well as towards the end of her paralegal courses completed in the fall of 2023. The (PAL-70) Law Office Policies would be taught by Professor Judon. (BUS-18A) Business Law 1 was taught by a Trinity Law School graduate that Carrie would pass two additional courses with this instructor that included, (BUS C110) Legal Environment of Business that does not reflect on her current or past RCC official transcripts but shows up on her Coastline college transcripts. (PAL-68) Civil Litigation and Procedure 1 course was being taught by a white male retired police officer, according to RCC student portal that Carrie does not have a memory of him teaching that course but only the (PAL-72) legal writing course that she failed. She would complain about his style of teaching for (PAL-72) that she would eventually pass the course over a decade later with another instructor. Before going onto the level two paralegal classes, it was a requirement towards the associate degree to take (CIS-80) Word Processing with legal research and computer applications course barely touching the surface on software applications used in either a law office or ordinary business. Carrie would not be introduced to the National Society for Legal Technology fully online training simulations, until the fall of 2023 through the (PAL-65) Law Office Technology fully online course.
Kicking off the level two required paralegal courses is the RCC Paralegal Department Lead, Professor Judon with the fully online (BUS-18B) Business law 2 course. Carrie’s (PAL-14) legal ethics course requirement was taught by a paralegal instructor at an aba-approved paralegal program on the east coast and it would be the first representation of a Hispanic or Latino female attorney for on-campus/in-person instruction. (PAL-70) Law office policies, Procedures & Ethics would be taught by Professor Judon from a thin textbook by memory. Carrie would eventually pass (PAL-72) legal writing & analysis with a returning black female instructor from the level one required paralegal coursework in the fall of 2023. A combination of legal procedure 1 and legal procedure 2, being taught by two older white male practicing attorneys in Orange County, California would fulfill RCC’s (PAL-78) Civil Litigation and Procedure 2 course requirement that Carrie failed with Professor Judon in spring 2010. Coastline’s aba-approved paralegal program dept. head, Professor Barnes taught legal procedure 1 through in-person/on-campus instruction. A life event altered her academic studies at RCC in 2011 that would lead to enrollment at Coastline College in Costa Mesa (1st Location: Mesa Verde Classrooms near my daughter school & across the street from my studio apartment)/Newport Beach (2nd Location), California in the fall of 2012, once Carrie signed her new lease agreement on a Costa Mesa, California studio apartment as the sole responsible party on the lease with both herself and her school-aged daughter occupying the unit only. Carrie would acquire her Costa Mesa studio apartment by working two $14.00 dollar per hour jobs with the Pell Grant disbursement from 2012, as a Coastline college student being used towards the rental deposit and not TANF. Terra Vista Management/Bayside Village & Marina payroll deposits are clearly reflected in Carrie’s Chase bank transaction history, which shows she could afford the studio apartment that had utilities included without a roommate that was a short drive from her jobs, her school and her daughter’s school.
For the required 9 units in paralegal electives, Carrie fulfilled the (SPE-1) public speaking course at the early stages of her paralegal education as part of the general education core requirements towards an associate degree. Public Speaking is an essential requirement to a paralegal’s job that was later added to RCC’s list of paralegal electives and was being taught by another female of a diverse racial demographic still unknown to Carrie. It’s not a typical job function of a paralegal to hone public speaking skills for the purpose of speaking to reporters or press, but for in-office meetings, board meetings, hearings on behalf of administrative agencies, law office presentations and professional networking events that may be essential. The summer of 2009, Carrie took (PAL-85) Family Law with a University of Laverne graduate that might have been an English major. This PAL-85 instructor would be the first and last Italian male representation in Carrie’s paralegal courses that she would barely speak to in class and never spoke to outside of the Riverside City College campus. Despite failing the state bar exam twice, (PAL-83) Estate Planning & Probate Procedures was being taught by an older white female that graduated from Trinity Law School and would make a casual suggestion for Carrie to apply to Trinity Law School, located in Santa Ana, California. Trinity Law School is one of two law schools that accepted associates degree that would be mentioned to Carrie in-class and at a local Riverside Family law practice of which a California licensed white male attorney would suggest Carrie applying to his law school of attendance that would be Pacific Coast Law School in Long Beach, California.
Prior to Carrie’s paralegal education and training, she acquired industry exposure through professional development courses taught at Redlands East Valley HighSchool, under the Regional Occupational Program. The courses listed on Carrie’s high school transcripts may be perceived by some as workforce readiness courses that was intended to help her prepare for the job market, upon completion of graduating with her high school diploma. The culinary arts 1 course eventually led to her first civilian job at Black Angus Steakhouse, located in San Bernardino, California. She accepted a reading tutor position at Riverside City College, before job placements at private-for-profit or private nonprofit career/technical training schools that came from Carrie’s previous experience as a non-paid/student worker at Redlands East Valley High School as a teacher’s assistant and office assistant to the principal’s office. ROP Fashion Merchandising led to gainful employment at Wet Seal, forever 21, KMART Corporation (Costa Mesa, CA. Store Location) and Mervyn’s as a retail store associate in her adult life. Some of Carrie’s past employers would start a new virtual enterprise venture that expanded upon existing online shopping or online order & delivery platforms like Panera Bread or Black Angus Steakhouse online websites. Local companies like The Firestone Art Studio & Café in Manchester, Connecticut are living proof of both design arts and ceramics opening doors for creative small business owners locally from her electives in high school.
As for what does not reflect on Carrie’s high school transcripts, but on the Regional Occupational Program transcripts has held record of Small Business Ownership & Management as the title of the combined courses of ROP Fashion Merchandising and Virtual Enterprise that was taken during her senior year of high school. While the name Vonpingel sounds familiar, it would be the instructor teaching the law enforcement occupations course in January 2002 that would be a course that Carrie forgot she took since it was noticeably removed from her high school transcripts. Carrie would enlist in the California National Guard one month prior to the start of the law enforcement occupations course being taught by instructor Vonpingel on December 17th, 2001. A decision Carrie would later regret in her adult life was enlisting into a military branch of service; she would not complete her enlistment contract with either the California or Missouri National Guard and the Army Reserves from 2004 or 2006. Job applications would follow in the early 2000’s as part of the welfare-to-work/Cal-Works recipient program, Carrie was required to apply to any employer that would include government jobs, such as local law enforcement positions as a police officer or public safety dispatcher in Riverside County, despite nothing in her education or previous work experience deemed her qualified or even interested in law enforcement occupations outside of one class taken in high school. With Torrance Police Department being the only police department interviewing Carrie without an exam upon her return to California in 2007, she was not offered the job due to certain items being in her credit report 👈(State Bar Complaints against lawyers/government lawyers/nonprofits & UPL against individuals) Carrie would be eligible to enroll in a tuition-free local community college to improve her personal household finances to support herself and her daughter and never heard back on any of those job applications submitted.
On
June 11th, 2003, Carrie graduated with her high school diploma from
Redlands East Valley High School with her mother in attendance for her
graduation, making it her highest level of education completed thus far. From
June 2008 to fall 2011, Carrie remained eligible to attend Riverside City College with a declared major in paralegal studies, based on her income as an
independent student through the California BOG-Waiver now called the California
Promise Grant. Life’s unexpected events put a dent in her personal finances at
times, proving to be a challenge to continue with her education that would
include 6 colleges in attendance for her undergraduate studies, but Carrie
would return to Riverside City College paralegal program in the fall of 2023.
Still holding program catalog rights from previous years at RCC, Carrie
successfully passed her English course (Essay #1, Essay #2, Essay #3 & Research Paper here) in the fall of 2025 with one general
education course requirement to complete by the May 2026 graduation
commencement to receive her associate degree in paralegal studies. The
associate degree in paralegal studies will be Carrie’s first college degree
attained, and her highest level of education completed thus far with plans of
attending a fully online law school in the future.
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