In last Friday’s Opinion Journal, Diana West writes of her decision to home school her children.

There’s No Place Like Home: The secular case for home-schooling

West mentions the Southern Baptist will consider a resolution urging its members to pull their children out of the government schools because of the hostility of the government schools to the Christian faith.

She goes on to relate what drove her to begin home-schooling.

This decision was not made in despair. As anti-Christian and officially godless as Baptists would find the excellently rated, wealthy and very white public elementary school in Montgomery County, Md., that my daughters attended last year, it eventually inspired in me a deep and abiding faith: I came to believe there was no way on, er, God’s green earth that I could possibly teach my girls less than they learned in that school.

After seeing what they did with her children all day, how they indoctrinated rather than taught, she realized how easy it is to do better than the government schools.

I thought that is a nice summary of why you should home-school your children: You can’t teach your children less then the government schools do.