Global Village School is a fully accredited (WASC) international online/distance learning school founded in 1999.
Our creative, flexible approach and emphasis on peace, justice, diversity, and sustainability set us apart from any other online school.

Update Log

Date	Sections Updated
July 31st	Initial posting of this status page.
August 11th	High School Curriculum Only Purchases, K-8 Curriculum Only Purchases
	General update

Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for your interest in Global Village School. We want to be as transparent as possible so you can make the absolute best decisions for your family. We are receiving an unprecedented level of interest in our offerings. Our program is very near capacity (details on that below). We do expect openings to occur gradually, and we are maintaining a wait list. We apologize if this has caught you by surprise. All of this sudden interest caught us by surprise as well; in the beginning, we moved inquiries and applicants along per usual, under the assumption that the spike in interest would level off reasonably quickly, and we’d be able to accommodate most everyone with a little juggling.

We are doing our best to assess our current and future capacity. Our priorities are to re-enroll our current students, finish the enrollment process with our recently accepted families, and fulfill a backlog of orders for our Whole Child, Healthy Planet curriculum guides, all while continuing to serve our current students.

After much thought, we have accepted the reality that the ever-increasing volume of emails and phone calls has far surpassed our capacity to respond. We don't come to this conclusion lightly. We have been operating for over 20 years, responding to every email and phone call promptly, but it simply isn’t possible to continue. 

Here is the course of action we’ve decided on:

Phone calls & email in general
We are not yet able to resume responding to phone call inquiries at this time; please email us instead. If you call and leave a message, it’s doubtful that we will be able to call you back. We can move through emails at a significantly faster pace than phone calls, partly because our staff doesn’t have to take the time to document the calls. The emails will be there when we have a chance to catch up on data entry, which will be vital as we sift through the enrollment applications. If you send us an email, we will keep it on file and respond as soon as we can.

ENROLLMENT: High School inquiries 
We have a small number of spaces still available. We do expect our high school program to fill up very soon, so if you are considering applying, we encourage you to thoroughly review the description of our high school program on our website, and reach out now if you feel like we might be a good fit for your family. If you are interested in applying, please EMAIL us and type “High school” in the subject line.

ENROLLMENT: K8 Enrollment inquiries
Our K-8 program is currently full. In August and September, we were able to admit a few families from the waiting list as spaces opened up. In October and November, we may be able to admit 2 or 3 more 5th-8th graders, but probably not in grades K-4 due to less teacher availability. A handful of other spaces will open up throughout the year, but we are unable to predict when. As spaces become available (or sooner, if we know ahead of time) we are reaching out to people on the waiting list. While the list is long, we are gradually working our way through it, so if Global Village feels like a really good match for you, and you are willing to wait, please do reply (see below for details).
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If, having read all this, you still want your K-8 grade child(ren) to apply for entry into Global Village School, then please send us an email with the subject line “Place me on the waitlist.” We will keep your information on file, and as openings become available, we will reach out to you in the order in which we receive your request. 
We apologize for needing to do this. We very much understand if you need to make other arrangements, and we wish you the best in your search.

ENROLLMENT: Processing time
Due to the large increase in applicants this year, enrollments are still taking longer than usual to process. Our staff has been putting in many extra hours in order to move things along as quickly as possible.​

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CURRICULUM ORDERS: K-8 Curriculum Guides
**Due to the ever increasing volume of orders and the impact of COVID-19 on our organization, curriculum guide purchases are temporarily non-refundable, starting with purchases made on August 11th, 2020.

If you wish to purchase one of our K-8 curriculum guides, you may do so online. Please carefully review the descriptions for each grade level of interest and pay particular attention to the sections that outline what our guides are and are not, along with a summary designed to help you decide if our guides are a good fit for your family. We also offer extensive samples of our guides – note that while they are from Version 11, they are still an accurate reflection of the quality of content and guidance you can expect from our guides, which on average, are more than 115 pages long.

As you can see, we work hard to describe our curriculum guides clearly so you can make the best decision for your family. We completely understand that people may have additional questions, but we are not able to respond to more questions about the curriculum at this time. 

If, after reviewing the information above along with our refund policy**, you feel comfortable ordering curriculum guides now, you can do that here. If you live outside of the U.S., please email us your request and we will get back to you. We will ship it out to you as quickly as we can, but it may take a week or so.

CURRICULUM ORDERS: High School Curriculum Guides
​As of August 10th, 2020 it is no longer possible for new families to purchase high school curriculum guides for their own use.
If you were already in the process of selecting curriculum only before this date, you will be able to complete your purchase.
If you are a family that has been purchasing our guides for home use each year, we will work with you to make some guides available; please get in touch.​

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Thank you very much for your patience. We are aware that these are very intense and stressful times, and we are doing our best not to add to that burden. We hope to be able to work with some of you over time, but this is very much a fluid situation. If you are not comfortable waiting and feel that you need to make other arrangements now, please know that we wish you and your family all the very best. We will be here in the future if you find our educational philosophy still calls to you in the coming years.

Take good care of yourselves,​
The Global Village School Staff

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