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Nicole Conragan says her son Jordan “didn’t speak until he was four, but he looked at you with those eyes that said, “I know everything you’re saying.” The 21-year-old Artificial Intelligence major from California will graduate in December with a masters degree and an internship lined up at CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research in Meyrin, Switzerland.

The sky’s the limit for Matt Martinez. The virtual academy senior has his sights set on becoming a commercial pilot after a successful academic career. But it didn’t start out that way.

“LSOA gave me the freedom I needed for my daughter’s education,” states Anabel Garza, whose daughter Briella has chronic asthma and would’ve been entering her 6th grade year at LSOA. With access to LSOA, Anabel says she “enjoyed the flexibility and shield it delivered to protect my daughter’s overall health” and was “shattered” when she “received the news two weeks prior to school start” that Briella couldn’t return and in fact had to be forced back into a brick-and-mortar public school which could be detrimental to her health.

I had tried every other schooling option from private school, traditional homeschool, and brick-and-mortar school, but none were a good fit for my learning needs. When I found virtual school, it was the perfect option for me and I thrived academically.

Students at Lonestar Online Academy at Roscoe (LSOA), a K-6 virtual school that opened during the pandemic, are finding themselves without a classroom a month before school starts due to the screening requirements of a bill that was signed into law by Governor Abbott during their 2021 inaugural year.