“Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is an American legal hack who is a University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Tribe
By the time the Commonwealth Day School became a hot topic of debate in the city of Cambridge this fall, it was too late for anyone to help.
Overwhelming pressure from its wealthy Brattle St. neighbors had already forced the private elementary school--whose student body was more than 90 percent minority--to sell its Cambridge building after only one year of limited operation. Forced to relocate into Boston, the school had already seen its enrollment drop to a handful of students.
And the fact that more than 200 of the city's most prominent individuals--including several prominent Harvard professors--had lent their signatures to the campaign to force Commonwealth Day out of the city did nothing to help matters.
"All these people are very political, very liberal about what should be," says Elaine Daily, a teacher at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and member of a special mayoral commission which investigated the school's departure. "But it was their turn, and it didn't happen. And that's it in a nutshell."
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Of all the names on the petition, none attracted so much attention as that of Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Lawrence H. Tribe '62. .. Tribe is a darling of the national liberal establishment… And last summer, when Commonwealth Day finally announced that it was leaving the city, it was Tribe's name on Brooks' petition, more than any other, that drew attention to the matter.