{"id":58950,"date":"2014-10-08T07:33:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58950"},"modified":"2025-03-23T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T00:32:20","slug":"why-didnt-he-pass-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58950","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t He Pass The Bar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe* says: I have a theory as to why he did not pass the bar.  The bar is mainly reading comprehension of the English language at a high level, based on a firm education in the language from infancy.  So many foreigners cannot pass, it is due to their lack of reading ability. I think right wing orthodox day schools are tending to leave basic English reading by the wayside.<\/p>\n<p>The LSAT is much more difficult. That should be pass fail and only smart lawyers such as myself would be permitted to ruin people&#8217;s lives.  <\/p>\n<p>The bar is much more about whether you know how to read English carefully and analyze matters in English.  <\/p>\n<p>I am sure he is pretty smart, he just should have gone to a better modern orthodox day school where they have the kids read.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe* says: I have a theory as to why he did not pass the bar. The bar is mainly reading comprehension of the English language at a high level, based on a firm education in the language from infancy. So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=58950\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58954,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58950\/revisions\/58954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}