The flexibility of the montessori school was great. Handing out diff sheets of work for the kids to do or hand a kid a dictionary and tell him to get you 10 verbs or dictate sentences to a child to work on spelling. But like anything it is a good teacher that matters the most. The diff stations was cool too so the kids can actually learn on their own w/o a teacher standing by them. But Public school sure frowns on montessori! But from personal experience there is no comparison to public.