After listening to new Governor Charlie Baker's inauguration address in which he reported there were 45,000 children on a waiting list for a charter school in Massachusetts and a similar reference by Ralph Carrero, the vice president of the Massachusetts Charter School Council. So I ask, why is it that there are 0 students on a waiting list for a Public School in Massachusetts.  Well the answer to that question is that public schools in Massachusetts are required by law to accept any student that comes to them, without exception ( except maybe a felony charge of a violent crime).  Charter schools can choose their students and limit their class sizes now there is an advantage.