Shark and a llama <| sep |> Part of it is their ability to select students and ditch disruptive asshats . I went to a pretty top rate public primary and highschool . At the time there were public and private options . I now live in an area where there are public , private and charter schools and the public system is going to shit because not only are the public schools forced to take the special needs and ESL kids , they are also forced to sisemically upgrade their existing old ass infrastructurebecause kids dying in earthquakes is bad while our government starves the school boards of funding . If our governments would actually fund education properly as they are supposed to . Most of these problems become either a non issue or at least mitigated . Starving the public system only harms society and social cohesion in the long run .