LOL about not going to the teen issues lecture! How else are you going to find babysitters and local BTDT parents? ((gentle teasing intended))
Did the lecturer offer for you to contact her for more information? If so I would see if she would meet your son, and see if any of the area gifted programs would be a good suppliment to homeschooling for him.
Saturdays, Summers and one half day at a local pull-out program, one evening a week for chess club, plus sports and boy scouts/ religious / martial arts, sounds like enough social time for anyone!
((I'm being a bit flip, but there are some grains of truth here, yes? And I figured that what you probably need right now is to feel "usual" which is the message I'm trying to send, however subtly or unsubtly))
Best Wishes,
Trinity
