VUSD enrollment has declined 20% declares Vista Watchdog 1, prominent ANTI blogger

Vista Watchdog 1 has twice asserted(at 9:51am and 12:53pm) on the comment blog following the article about last nights protest that there has been a twenty percent student enrollment decline at VUSD. Each time he asserted these figures he wrote with a Dick Cheney like certainty. There was no question that what he said was the truth. VUSD enrollment according to VWdog has declined from a high of 25K to a current enrollment of 20K.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_aa64ab84-4b91-5e85-bc19-2affb12386ec.html?mode=comments

I can find no evidence of such a decline at the official VUSD website.

Here is what I did find.

VUSD had a student enrollment of 24,150 in October of 2003.
http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/Departments/BusinessServices/facilities/cbo/CBO%20Meeting%20Documents/2004-02/CBO_Capacity-Enroll_Relo_Age_Sum.pdf


In the 2008-2009 school year the average enrollment (without considering charter schools) was 23,147.
http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/Pages/VUSDFacts.aspx#enroll

This is a decline of one thousand students.

At just one of VUSD's charters, Guajome Park Academy the current enrollment is 1450 students according to Judy who answers the phone there. Adding current GPA's numbers to the 2008-9 VUSD numbers appears to indicate that there has been no enrollment decline at VUSD whatsoever. (The 2008-9 numbers were the most current I could find at the official VUSD website.)

Knowing VWdog's reputation for "accurate" assertions after articles about VUSD, I am sure VWdog would be happy to share with us the source of his numbers that seem so different from the official numbers at the official VUSD website. I will await his response and post it here if such a response comes.

Of course I do not really expect him to back up his assertions. Our ANTI friends seldom have facts to back up what "everyone" on their side knows. How can our ANTI friends continue their self-satisfying tirade of hate and anger at our fine school district and its excellent teachers, if they cannot create an evil strawman from phony facts?