It sounds like your experience was traumatic and that’s really unfortunate. But, your experience is far from universal for either school type. Today, particular

It sounds like your experience was traumatic and that’s really unfortunate. But, your experience is far from universal for either school type. Today, particularly with Section 504 plans, many schools are much more adept at accommodating ADHD and a number of other challenges. Kids who have slow handwriting development can use keyboards or text to speech. Kids who get extremely overwhelmed can take breaks in the hallway. Others who are bored by the offered curriculum are given access to Khan Academy. It’s not universal and it can require some parental persistence to both create the plan and enforce its use, but it has helped a lot of kids. Public school taught me physics, calculus, history and a smattering of other topics I wouldn’t have delved into on my own (for example, reverse polish notation.) It did not teach me discipline, structure or obedience (I was actually spanked by a grade school teacher, which seems unfathomable now.) As such, I was wholly unprepared for higher education. Some of this stuff might require direct intervention from the parent instead of simply relying on a school to take care of it.