oh, sorry Grinity - I worded that wrong. I mean we're coming to the time where he would start *if we chose to send him at all*. He can start later if we decided to home school him for a while.
I haven't read about Terry Tao - I'll do some hunting sometime soon.
Yes, he's still writing - once we finally got his writing book back from the school he hasn't stopped. Lots of random fairy / flower/ dragon stuff with a heavy influence from Enid Blyton.
Our local homeschooling group is (apparently) very active so I'd have to push my introverted self out of my comfort zone to make contact.
He loves his 'extra curricula' stuff (gymnastics, music, foreign language), and says he doesn't care where he does school so long as he can learn lots of new things. Keeping him home would require a big commitment and we know we wouldn't be supported by most of our family, and it's a little scary!
