Be aware of the many distractions that won't parallel the home life you have maintained. Vast amounts of time separated from the family will affect their relationship with you. We have all put great amounts of our heart and time into our homeschooling years, and we want those efforts preserved. Homeschool is the best preparation for college studies. If and when they learn, it will be a by-product of other priorities to maintain classroom order.
Home educators have the best available curriculum and greater selection.
Public schools offer revisionist history and science that promotes their humanist perspective. The godly commitment of many great Americans has been deleted from public text books. Public school children are behind their homeschool counterparts in maturity, socialization, and vocabulary development, as demonstrated by available research.