Let Them Eat Charters | EduShyster

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Let Them Eat Charters



 Will Massachusetts reduce its public school system to crumbs?

The rich are different from you and me, reader. For one thing, they are rich, which means that when passion strikes they can forget, for a moment, their billable hours and labor for free. It’s called pro bono, and it is Roman for *charter schools are great.* I am alluding, of course, to the new news that three of Boston’s whitest white shoe law firms, WilmerHale, Goodwin Procter LLP and FoleyHoag LLP, are joining forces for the kids, for free. What makes this new news even newsier is that the three firms have long been fierce rivals in the battle to ensure that no litigation is left unlitigated. Why it’s like that time that crew-sters from Harvard, Yale AND Princeton all climbed into a single shell and rowed down the Charles together!

Old bucks 4 new schools
No doubt you have many questions about thepro bono-ists’ civil-rights-based challenge to the state’s cap on the number of charter schools. Such as *from whence does theexpression white shoe law firm come?* As always, I am happy to shed light. You see the phrase derives from *white bucks,* laced suede or buckskin shoes with a red sole, long popular in the sorts of Ivy League colleges that our pro bono-ists no doubt attended. What? You want to know how it is that civil rights can be used to argue for more charter schools, when, according to a growing body of case law, students in charter schools don’t actuallyhave civil rights? Or how, in the course of four decades, *civil rights* could go from afierce battle over desegregating schools and diversifying the teaching force to the fresh new right of students to attend more segregated schools and be taught by Let Them Eat Charters | EduShyster: