The tyranny of evil men

A couple of days ago I noted that Jay Conison, dean of the most wretched — as measured by the admissions credentials of its victims students — of the Infilaw for-profit law schools, was debating David Frakt at The Faculty Lounge. Frakt, who was kicked out of a literal faculty lounge by Infilaw errand boy Dennis Stone when his dean candidacy presentation to the Florida Coastal faculty began to include subversive material, aka facts, was now challenging Conison to provide evidence — any evidence — for Infilaw’s contention that the unprecedentedly horrible LSAT scores of its recent entering classes weren’t going to produce abysmal bar passage rates.

This question has taken on special sharpness, given that bar passage rates for Infilaw school graduates plunged in 2014, and, as documented here, the entrance numbers for the the schools’ most recent entering classes — and Conison’s Charlotte School of Law in particular — are far lower than even the terrible numbers of the 2011 entering classes, which provided most of the graduates who failed various bar exams this summer at rates approaching 50%. (A quarter of Charlotte’s 2014 matrics have LSAT scores of 138 or below. 138 is the 9th percentile of test takers. The average LSAT score of graduates of even the worst for-profit undergraduate schools who take the test — that is, not those who apply to law school, but all those who merely take the LSAT — are much higher).

Conison has now risen to the challenge. I dare you to read that. I double dare you.

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.