Prestigious Dyslexic Lawyer David Boies Now Supports Campbell Brown’s Attacks on Teacher Tenure
Campbell Brown was just on Morning Joe again with David Boies as her new Chairman of the Partnership for Education Justice to fight teacher tenure. Remember David Boies, the respected, folksy, tennis shoed, liberal lawyer of Gore v. Bush fame? He has had many other high-profile cases too. I’ve always seen him as a good guy. Sorry, Mr. Boies. You just lost me.
Here is what is really fascinating and part of why I always respected Boies. He is the son of two public school teachers. He had dyslexia and didn’t learn to read until third grade. But he did attend public school—Fullerton Union High School in Illinois. And those teachers taught him how to read, I take it, or they helped him compensate for his reading difficulties, and pretty well. Mr. Boies graduated from Northwestern University in 1964, and he has law degrees from Yale and New York University. Not bad for a kid with dyslexia who attended public school and had public school teachers.
In fact, if anyone could be the poster child for success at a public school, David Boies would be that person. But it is apparently not to be.
Mr. Boies and Ms. Brown really try to make it sound like they are all about doing teachers a big favor. But you have to know right away, that they are both advocates for charter schools. Brown is on the board for the Success Academy Charter School. This is the charter group that is often accused of pushing students with special needs out. If Boies had been a little boy today and applied to go therePrestigious Dyslexic Lawyer David Boies Now Supports Campbell Brown’s Attacks on Teacher Tenure: