Home schoolers: What made you decide to school your children?

My kids went to public school through 9th grade and 7th grade respectively. We just began home-schooling this year and, while it's more exhausting for me (I work nights and teach in the morning) it's so much more rewarding. Instead of the old "How was school? What'd you learn?" "Nothing" conversations, we have really in depth conversations about stuff we're all interested in and we all learn. But back to the question, we decided to home-school this year due to the fact that we had to move (due to finances there was no other option) into one of the, if not the, worst school districts in the state. While Magnet schools are offered the move was so sudden and soon that was not an option. With a change of job and a suggestion from a friend of mine, we began to look into home-school. We are all quite a lot happier though my youngest daughter still wishes to attend Public Magnet School next year, which is just proof that people are different.