Posted on 10/03/2019 9:38:20 AM PDT by karpov
During her presidential campaign, Elizabeth Warren often emphasizes education as well as equal opportunities for women in the workplace. Warren tells of her own experience as a young public school teacher, let go from a special needs teaching job by a male principal for being "visibly pregnant." This past May, Warren put it this way when discussing her early teaching career:
“I loved it, and I would probably still be doing it today but back in the day, before unions, the principal, by the time we got to the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant,” she said. “And the principal did what principals did in those days: they wished you luck, showed you the door, and hired someone else for the job. And there went my dream.”
In an interview twelve years ago, however, Warren told a markedly different version of the circumstances around her termination from her teaching job. (A writer for Jacobin Magazine, Meagan Day, first noted the interview on Tuesday on Twitter. Day is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and is a Bernie Sanders supporter.) At UC Berkeley in 2007 as part of a series called "Conversations with History," Warren was asked about her pursuit of a career helping special needs children. Her answer at the time made no mention of losing her job due to her pregnancy. Instead, she spoke of trying to further her education because she lacked some education courses that had required her to rely on an "emergency certificate" to teach that first year. While pursuing those courses, she said she realized, "I don't think this is going to work out for me." She and her husband then decided she would stay at home for the time being. Here is her full answer in context:
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1. “I loved it, and I would probably still be doing it today but back in the day, before unions.”
It is very doubtful that teachers in her school were not unionized, which in her case had to be in the 1960s.
2. Her constant myth making of her own history for purposes of a personal touch in a speech is right out of the political playbook of Billary, Inc - the all time big practitioners of that practice.
She is married and she does have children. But he is as ugly as she is, and these people are grateful to have found each other. ;-)
She has a hubby and kids? Damn she looks and acts just like this Lessie I knew back in the day in Brooklyn:-)
Somebody (hopefully a husband) wasn’t just pokin’ fun...
Liars lie...that is what they do. It is a character flaw. It will never change.
So, you're saying when I get my time machine ready, I should off this guy instead of Baby Hitler?
These politi-scum have no shame whatsoever.
She’s 70, he’s probably dead.
Not older than me, and there have been teacher unions as far as I remember. She said “before unions”.
that was my first thought also. I guess she was teaching special needs in the 18th century but there were unions even then.
Squaw Lieatot needs a new story.
No wonder he is never seen.
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