Private school is the way to go , folks.....uh, not so fast. 

I've had my kids in private school before and the administration was just as corrupt/lacking a backbone/showed favoritism and didn't deny it/(and the list goes on) as public schools. I know of a married, private school who administrator had a "relationship" with a teenage foster kid living in their house. Got caught. Got busted. Lost his job and wife.  

Every school is going to have problems, somewhere. Parents need to find the problems of schools and then determine if the benefits of the school outweigh the problems, if the problems can't be contained or corrected. Private or public school - you're going to take a risk.