In gifted education much attention has been granted to the gifted identification process, yet relatively little has been devoted to examining parents whose children would qualify for gifted programming but have chosen not to attend public or private schools. In this pilot study, we examine the reasoning why parents decided to pursue homeschooling despite the availability of public/private schooling. Preliminary analyses of approximately 15 semi-structured interviews suggest that parental dissatisfaction with public school policies and climates or teacher/staff attitudes may be equally important as perceptions of academic quality in guiding parents’ decisions to pursue non-public educational options.