The Story of a Dyslexic High School Graduate

Simon Jenkins is the son of a Stanford University professor and an alcoholic mother. He was valedictorian at UC Berkeley after failing first grade because he couldn't read. His father didn't get tenure, his mom gave him opera as her recovery from alcohol. The fact that he equates his dad getting tenure at Stanford with his mom being an alcoholic really is a choice That's a choice You know, listen, he's a writer, he's an English major He did it on purpose, and we can't question it.