Detroit Free Press Brian Dickerson column: sadly, a teacher's kid flunks both sides.(Column)

Byline: Brian Dickerson

Sep. 9--Well, somebody had to be the grown-up. God knows Wayne County Circuit Judge Susan Borman wasn't relishing the role. For 11 days she stalled for time -- pleading, cajoling, pressuring and even threatening, but always resisting the Bigfoot role in which Detroit Public Schools lawyers were so eager to cast her. Her politics -- union-label Democratic, although like all Michigan judges she professed nonpartisanship -- disposed her to sympathize with the striking teachers. So did her personal history. "My mother was a teacher," Borman pointed out before lowering the boom. She noted sworn testimony describing Detroit teachers as …