I do not want to homeschool. I work full time.
If you don't want to HS, I don't think you should. We also chose to not HS our AS child (now 11) because we felt that adapting to the school environment, difficult as it was, gave him the best shot at employability and social success later in life. A well-fitting school environment is hard to negotiate for, but really can work.
Our daughter has Asperger's syndrome - would barely qualify for Davidson with WISC GAI of 148 (last summer). Her public elementary school kicked us out on a residency pretext (long story -- but I'll simplify by telling you our rental in the area required us to vacate for repairs an they took that chance to kick us out saying we had abandoned residency, which we had not)
Can you appeal that decision?
and she dislikes the local public school.
Does she have an IEP? What kind of services or accommodations are (or were) being provided for the Asperger's and giftedness?
What is your DD like? Does she have difficult behaviors that need to be addressed? Do you have any private therapeutic support?
Yes, I can afford private school if I keep my job and if I could find one that worked for her I would do it-- she only found one she liked (loved) but they rejected her.
Public schools are where your DD has civil rights protections. In our experience, many private schools don't want kids with disabilities, and aren't equipped to handle them.
My first step would be to aggressively pursue making a public option fit your DD through an IEP and gifted services.
