AUSTIN, Texas — Homeschooling was difficult enough for parents who have the luxury of working from home, but now service industry parents are feeling the heat. They're wondering how they'll juggle homeschooling and work if that's what they feel is the safest option come the start of the school year.

Heather Nicole Artrip and her soon-to-be first-grader, Florian, have been doing a lot of reading together lately.

"'The Giving Tree,' alright take a seat here," said Artrip.

They've been getting a taste of what homeschooling could look like ahead of next school year. Artrip was pleased with her son's school's virtual learning program but says she doesn't know whether or not it will be an option next year.

"If for some reason they don't continue to offer that and go back to in-person school, that would be detrimental because I would have to un-enroll him and homeschool," said Artrip.

Both Artrip and her boyfriend, Kent Ingle, are out-of-work servers. They’re not quite ready to get back to the restaurant business with COVID-19 cases still rising.

“We just don’t feel safe that one of us could bring this home," said Ingle.

But eventually they will go back, and they worry about how they’d manage to work in the service industry and homeschool simultaneously.

“That would really be a struggle trying to work around everyone’s schedules. We would probably just have to take turns homeschooling, which would be difficult in and of itself," said Artrip.