What I am realizing is that I am afraid of homeschooling DS for the long haul. I actually LOVE homeschooling him. He loves it too. I just don't see how I could possibly be qualified for the whole run of it.
You don't have to be
qualified for the whole run of it. You just need to seek out resources that
are such as a mentor, online classes, and the MIT lectures,
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm, and guide him to them.
There are online schools even for elementary, and khanacademy.org, and museums, and books. I wish we could home-school full-time as we're having to educate him in the evenings anyway, just to keep him engaged. School for us right now is just one big, fat daycare and DS8 is only HG.
Personally, I would just keep him where you are; he's happy with it and the private school does not sound accommodating. Why waste the money trying to make it work when you already have something that is working?
