We don’t want to ruin our children’s lives — and that’s exactly what one college professor in Florida predicts will happen to U.S. students whose parents entrust them to public schools rather than making the noble sacrifice of educating their children at home.

His arguments against public schools:

• The educational bureaucracy has stripped teachers of the ability to effectively teach anything other than standardized tests.
• Today’s public schools are a hostile learning environment that includes everything from extreme bullying to teacher-student sexual misconduct.
• Teachers’ unions that protect bad teachers are a roadblock to education reform.
• The public education system “is one of the worst forms of monopoly power” because it denies poor parents the option of getting their children into better schools.

That’s four lessons on why we home-school rolled into one from an educator whose own two children learn at home. And here’s a bonus: “The home-education movement has unleashed the forces of capitalism in such a way that anyone can find dozens of types of curricula for any grade level to help educate their kids in areas where one might not be an expert.”

(Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.)