Applications for Homeschool or Virtual School Students

Hi! We were excited to receive our application materials in the mail and my son is working feverishly on composing his statement on why he wants to attend FUMA. However, he has attended a state supported, on-line school for the last two years. He has very little contact with his teachers who essentially just grade his work (that is, the portfolio assignments and projects, all of his tests are graded by computer)and have no personal relationship with him. I am his "learning coach" and so I present the material to him each day and make sure his work gets turned in. He is in sixth grade now.

So should I seek out a teacher from his old school and ask them to fill out the form regarding character and maturity, with the understanding that this would be someone who taught him as a second or third grader. Send it to his current teachers who would probably have to answer that they don't know him well? Can I have additional statements sent by someone else who knows him well, like a coach? What do homeschooled students do? That is probably the closest to our situation.