Just how broken is the conventional American school system? And how much imagination and innovation are we going to need to really fix it?

Michael Strong, founder of The Socratic Experience (https://socraticexperience.com), is an educational entrepreneur who’s spent his career creating high-performance private and charter schools across the country. He believes that, if you want to answer those questions, you should just ask students. Most kids are vocal about the fact that they don’t love school. We’ve long accepted that as normal, but why should that be the case? Maybe they’ve just recognized the problem before the rest of us.

Here are the Top 5 reasons to pull your kids out of conventional public school, according to Michael Strong. Stick around for #1 to hear why you should have hope for the future of education!