I find homeschooling easier than getting up at 4 a.m. on a cold morning to start the fire so the house will be warm when the kids get up, then force them up, then off to catch the bus in the dark - especially when the dirt roads are muddy or icy.

Don't have a working wood stove since I got remarried (we use electric heat) and the kids are old enough to get themselves up - but it was still easier to hs than do that.

The kids, themselves, made the choice whether to hs or ps. They were in and out a lot, sometimes. Now, the two older ones school themselves and the younger one lives with his dad (and goes to ps).

But, yeah, it definitely takes commitment and is easy to give up.