This article sounds really biased

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/attorney-for-school-districts-is-good-perhaps-too-good-parents-say/2015/11/22/d41e36e0-8fca-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/attorney-for-school-districts-is-good-perhaps-too-good-parents-say/2015/11/22/d41e36e0-8fca-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html

How so?

[Anonymous]

It's a column, not an article, so yes indeed, it's biased. I wonder what it would look like if instead of an attorney daughter he had a child in a group home. There but for the grace of God....

[Anonymous]

His whole first paragraph doesn't make sense. He's equating a guy who makes millions of dollars working for a wealthy school system with a public defender. Then he congratulates him for being "remarkably successful." All of this sets Mr. Krew up to be a good guy. It kind of reads like a paid advertisement for him.

And the ending? "Next week, I will tell of special-education parents who are very happy they moved to Montgomery." Not just happy but "very happy." Where is the column with the parents who are "very unhappy"?

I also don't see an opinion here which is what good columnists convey. It reads like a news story but a biased one.

[Anonymous]

His job is to zealously represent his client. Being a litigator is all about being "biased", it is up to the courts to be "fair".

[Anonymous]

I think we're talking about the reporter.

[Anonymous]

It will be very difficult to impossible to write an unbiased article about a lawyer that represents MCPS.

[Anonymous]

So the columnist didn't even bother to sit in on any legal proceedings Krew was involved in to judge for himself? God, the washington post has gone down the toilet fast.

[Anonymous]

^And I think its interesting that the one family the columnist mentioned wanted an Orthodox private school, which was designed to make the reader scoff, vs a more "sympathetic" family with a severely disabled child.

[Anonymous]

Mathews may have been a good reporter once, but he's phoning it in these days - often literally from his home in California. No clue why the Post continues to give him a salary and platform.

[Anonymous]

Good god! That opinion piece was horrendous. I understand there are two sides to issues but I can't believe Jay Matthews wrote a tribute piece about a special education litigator. Comparing him to a public defender!? I can't believe he's so clueless about the challenges of getting appropriate services for SN kids. I'm not even in MCPS but totally understand the problems with the article. I also read the online comments. I sure hope Mr. Mathews writes an article about parents who are very unhappy with MCPS.

[Anonymous]

No mention of how much MCPS pays Krew's firm each year, huh, Jay?

[Anonymous]

Mathews is getting defensive in the comments and one of the parents he quoted in the article is taking him to task. LOL.

[Anonymous]

I for one would like to see an article on parents that are very happy. I feel like on here I only hear horror stories which freak me out : ( We pay out of pocket for private right now but can't afford to do so forever.

[Anonymous]

I am a lawyer and a litigator and this story made me sick to my stomach -- I hate guys like this and I hate it when non-lawyers act like this is normal because "that's what lawyers do." That's what crappy unethical hacks do.