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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS FOIA office just confirmed: 
* [b]VLP[/b] enrollment is only [u][b]2.7% of student body[/b][/u] as of August 31 (739 of 26,911 students) (4.4% decline in total enrollment since June 2020 and 9.9% under projected enrollment (last done in January 2019))
* VLP enrollment was 3.0% of student body as of August 5 (786 of 26,420 students)

Thus, during the [i][b]absolute height of the "delta surge"[/b][/i], [b]the virtual enrollment shrank[/b] in actual numbers ([i][b]-47[/b][/i]) while almost 500 more students enrolled at APS during the same time period, shrinking [i][b]from 3.0% to 2.7%[/b][/i] of total enrollment.[/quote]

You're forgetting that they were only letting students leave the VLP, no students (except new to APS) were permitted to switch from in-person to VLP.  So the program had no option but to shrink.[/quote]

NOT true at all. If you have a medical reason you are allowed in. This is such a small population regardless. There are not droves of families trying to get into VPL. SO much money for less than 800 kids. Wow.[/quote]

We and a handful of families we know have been trying to get into the virtual program for the better part of the past 8 weeks. We don’t qualify under their medical exemption category, but we have been watching Delta and the situation with children and schools, and we are uncomfortable with sending our child to her in person public school. We selected in person back in May or June or whenever it was, because education is really important to us and we wanted her im school. At the time, we were super optimistic with cases falling and vaccine uptake high. Over the course of watching things develop this summer, we became much less comfortable. If we had to choose now, we would pick virtual. Despite multiple phone calls, and efforts to argue our case, we can’t get in. I suspect, just based on my personal experience and talking with other families who are our friends, that we aren’t alone. We are just trapped now in in person unless we pull entirely to home school.[/quote]

The government can't cater to a "handful" of families' fears, such that they irrationally want their children to be in school online for no medical reason (which has been proven to be an inferior form of education). COVID is less than a flu level risk for healthy children and we don't do such things for the flu.  Those kids with medical risks (i.e., greater than flu level risk) do have the option to go back in.

Virtual Virginia's fall registration window was open until July 15th, which would have been in the 8-week time period you were discussing.  If you really were that scared, you would have sent them to Virtual Virginia.  [/quote]

+1000

Evangelical Christians also aren't "comfortable" with the public school and they homeschool their children or send them to private school.  It's one thing not to be comfortable with something, it's another thing to demand the local government fund your comfort desires (especially when you could have already gotten them taken care of at the state level).[/quote]

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