Public School vs. Private or Independent School

I am the proud product of a public elementary and secondary school education. However, having taught in both public and private schools, I’ve come to appreciate the one glaring advantage of the private or INDEPENDENT schools. It’s their flexibility. It fosters teacher-induced innovations that greatly increase the chances of reaching each and every student, leading them to become motivated, disciplined and active learners. It’s not that this won’t happen in the public schools.  It’s just less likely, as so persuasively stated by the public school student who wrote this recent op-ed piece:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/01/25/the-crushing-boredom-tired-curriculum/DeKoLpBBjydU3EG7GOYm0J/story.html