A little late in the game, but DD 10 is homeschooled now, will do CTY stuff in the summer. She got accepted into a gifted middle school/HS. She really loves to be in school, so it was always looked at as a temporary situation, but we had a great time, and you never know, it could always happen again, although it would probably be more of an epgy situation, and less of me)
It does seem to me, from reading the posts, that pre-school to say 5th are the toughest years to educate these kids.