I posted in the earlier-linked thread, but here's a short version:
My wife homeschools our kids. However, we have a great relationship with the public school, and we send our kids there for specials (music, art, PE). It's hard, and a big time commitment for my wife, but it has been a great thing for our family. It has eliminated the stress of rushing everyone out the door in the morning, and completely eliminated what I call "the witching hour"--that time of day when Mom is making dinner, kids are coming home from school and have homework to do, the toddler is waking up from the nap, and there's a lot of stress and noise. Depending on how diligent the kids are, they can be done with all their school (including math, spelling, reading, piano, religion, history, and sometimes science) before lunch. There's no homework (I overheard a friend talking about their kindergartner's homework the other day. Seriously, why does a kindergartner need homework?!). There's no busywork. There's no wasted time waiting for other kids to catch up.
I like to daydream about how much more we could do for our kids (educationally) if we just got a rebate on our property taxes for the time the kids aren't in public schools....