IPad2 won't reconnect to network after Personal Hotspot

I have taught my parents-in-law how to use their iPhone Personal Hotspot to conect their iPad to the internet when they are out of the house, but when they get home, the iPad wn't reconnect to the home wireless network.
I thought that, like my iPhone and MBP, it would find the network that it has previously connected to and auto-connect. Does using Personal Hotspot over-ride something that has to be manually reset every time? What am I missing here?

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