LOOKS LIKE SHE FORGOT LAURA BUSH WAS A TEACHER, TOO
LOOKS LIKE SHE FORGOT LAURA BUSH WAS A TEACHER, TOO
Barbara Bush tells grandson not to waste his life being a teacher:
Council: How did you make the transition from wanting to be a teacher to wanting to be a lawyer?
Bush: Candidly, my grandmother Barbara Bush sat me down. We were having a dinner one time and she had said . . . “You should really think about getting a graduate degree for your long-term prospects. You can always go back to teaching. It’s a noble cause, but with the law you’re able to help your community out in a much larger scale and also make a little bit more money.” She wanted me to make money. That’s kind of her litmus test for success, unfortunately, especially before getting into public service or politics or something like that.
Read more about how George P. Bush (son of Jeb) got into a prestigious law firm despite placing in the bottom half of his class at UT Law School.
” Some people say that’s something you can pat yourself on the back for because UT is a top 20 school. But at the same time . . . I gave it my all, all the way through my third year. But it wasn’t enough. And I guess I could make the argument that a lot of it was ideologically driven and that some of these professors made their political beliefs well known. But I’m not going to blame it on that. I’m going to blame it on myself. But I was fortunate enough to get the clerkship and be in a firm like this. “
Yeah.
Fortunate.
HA.
Damn all that affirmative action for minorities.
October 28th, 2004 at 7:01 pm
As someone who watched one Federalist Society member after another ace exams given by the reasonably liberal faculty at Columbia Law School, I can assure you that George P.’s grades didn’t suffer because of his politics.
Didn’t George P. get the political influence/AA double-whammy, Dawn? I’m surprised he isn’t the Texas Attorney General yet.
October 28th, 2004 at 7:05 pm
“And everything is based on a curve, so you look to your right and look to your left and you know in the back of your mind that they’re your enemy, not the professor”
I hated the fucking people who thought that way.
October 28th, 2004 at 7:26 pm
I have to admit I didn’t understand that last part. Are you saying affirmative action didn’t help him? Or it did but he wasn’t sufficiently grateful? Or what?
October 28th, 2004 at 7:28 pm
I sarcastically referenced his Mexican heritage in that last line. Affirmative action doesn’t push a mediocre student from UT to a clerkship and a top tier law firm, but you know what does?
October 28th, 2004 at 7:40 pm
Um, breaking and entering?
October 28th, 2004 at 7:45 pm
Does anyone have a link to the full story? You have to have a subscription to the Texas Lawyer to get it. And much as I want to read the story, on principle, I will not subscribe to the Texas Lawyer.
October 28th, 2004 at 7:47 pm
That’s why they don’t let those people move into good neighborhoods.
October 28th, 2004 at 7:58 pm
Oh, now it get it. Thanks for the “clareification”, ha ha.
October 28th, 2004 at 7:59 pm
Good. Now go tell all your friends!
October 28th, 2004 at 10:19 pm
Don’t they have anonymous grading at UT? So how could his political beliefs affect his grade? i don’t get it.
And UT is the nation’s largest law school, (1500 students. My school has 571) Is hitting the middle in a class the size of UT’s something to be proud of?
October 28th, 2004 at 11:00 pm
I think his theory was that his exam answers would imply a conservative constitutional philosophy that the liberal professors wouldn’t like.
Like I said, nonsense. Liberals and conservatives, libertarians and leftists and centrists leaning both ways were represented in all echelons of my class.
October 28th, 2004 at 11:31 pm
I am closely personally acquainted with one who had a conservative constitutional philosophy and was quite vocal about it in law school. He did pretty well. George P. is just making excuses.
October 29th, 2004 at 4:40 am
No, he was just listing all the excuses he wasn’t making.
November 1st, 2004 at 5:48 am
Welly welly well.
I attended Texas Law School. And I saw G.P. walking around school. And I finished in the bottom half of my class. I’m still unemployed, for those of you who think that “Top 20 Law School” crap means anything.
There’s liberal bias, of course, just like at every other law school. It couldn’t have affected his grades though. It’s all anonymous.
Maybe flying off to do those photo shoots affected his grades. Or pandering to folks in Mexico who want illegal immigration to be “OK.”