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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

I'm not ready to know about gifted teens!!! *lalala with fingers in ears* There are parents that travel up to 2 hours to this program, thank goodness we are only 20 min. away. The lecturer didn't seem to be in favor of homeschooling at all and gave me the impression that she felt the public school system would do a much better job them I could ever do. (Don't throw down a dare... I'm as stubborn as they come.) I don't think as a NYC girl I will EVER feel usual here in se VA! I'm starting to think that if I'm going to stand out I may as well just get it over with and start wearing bright purple with red lipstick and playing a tuba! hmm all shopping opportunites!! There is a huge military population here and many of these families homeschool. I'm hoping to start networking and find a coop. I was a geology major and love science/math, my DH loves history/music so we can cover most of the subjects but I would like to do it in a group setting.

Thanks so much for the help! Nancy