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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

^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.

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.

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

I think we're talking about the reporter.

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".

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.

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 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?