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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:31 PM Oct 2019

Elizabeth Warren defends her story about losing a teaching job because of pregnancy

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren stuck to her story Tuesday about losing her first teaching job because of pregnancy amid new scrutiny of the narrative.

Recent reports have cast doubts on the story, which the senator from Massachusetts has highlighted on the campaign trail as a key part of her background. In a pair of tweets Tuesday, Warren — one of the leading candidates aiming to challenge President Donald Trump for the White House next year — stood by her account of how she lost the position.

"When I was 22 and finishing my first year of teaching, I had an experience millions of women will recognize. By June I was visibly pregnant — and the principal told me the job I'd already been promised for the next year would go to someone else," wrote Warren, who is 70.

She continued: "This was 1971, years before Congress outlawed pregnancy discrimination — but we know it still happens in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. We can fight back by telling our stories. I tell mine on the campaign trail, and I hope to hear yours."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elizabeth-warren-defends-her-story-about-losing-a-teaching-job-because-of-pregnancy/ar-AAIsqdf?li=BBnb7Kz

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Elizabeth Warren defends her story about losing a teaching job because of pregnancy (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP
I don't doubt her story. redstatebluegirl Oct 2019 #1
She's damn right. I was fired from my job for being pregnant in late 1969. sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #2
I believe her too. Been there done that. You couldn't even get another job shraby Oct 2019 #3
This article headline is really misleading. She didn't say she lost her job. LisaM Oct 2019 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author CountAllVotes Oct 2019 #5
welp, stick a fork in her. she's done. maxsolomon Oct 2019 #6
The news media .....................can go and pound sand........................ turbinetree Oct 2019 #7
The more she is perceived as being a front runner lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #8
JacobinMag got the ball rolling on this big fail BeyondGeography Oct 2019 #9
If you read the linked article ... left-of-center2012 Oct 2019 #10
You left out a key part around when she took the graduate courses. Blue_true Oct 2019 #11
Seems like.... boomer_wv Oct 2019 #12
 

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
1. I don't doubt her story.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:34 PM
Oct 2019

I was of child bearing age then too. I got married and called in by my boss the week I got back. He told me if I wanted babies that was fine, but I would not be pregnant and work for his company. I knew he meant it, he had fired women before for getting pregnant.

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sinkingfeeling

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2. She's damn right. I was fired from my job for being pregnant in late 1969.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:35 PM
Oct 2019
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shraby

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3. I believe her too. Been there done that. You couldn't even get another job
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:37 PM
Oct 2019

if you were pregnant.
If you lost your job because of pregnancy, you couldn't even collect unemployment.

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LisaM

(27,811 posts)
4. This article headline is really misleading. She didn't say she lost her job.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:43 PM
Oct 2019

She said that she didn't get a different job that she'd been promised. (This is not on the OP, this is on how the article's written).

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maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
6. welp, stick a fork in her. she's done.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:50 PM
Oct 2019

dems must be perfect and never exaggerate.

repukes can be sociopathic serial adulterers who lie pathologically and slander recklessly.

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turbinetree

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7. The news media .....................can go and pound sand........................
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:53 PM
Oct 2019

you have a person and his lackeys in the cabinet and right wing congress basically committing treason....................taking apart the country and the world, and your fixation to take down a decent law abiding person is just fucking unfathomable...................

And this sexist trope to try and get a gotcha moment to justify this crap.......1971 was not nice to woman..................and the Washington Free Beacon , maybe the MSN.com site should fact check there fucking source, before posting this crap......................Washington Free Beacon................."mixed for factual and misleading false claims"........................in other words they print BS..............you know not true ........................

let me highlight there take on this source :

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-free-beacon/

"Overall, we rate the Washington Free Beacon Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to misleading and false claims."




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lapfog_1

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8. The more she is perceived as being a front runner
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 02:01 PM
Oct 2019

ahead or tied with Biden... you can expect more of this sort of garbage to emerge from the media and the right wing attack dogs.

Such is the state of politics...

Some here expressed "concern" about Biden when Trump started the baseless bullshit about his son and Ukraine... I will not express any concern about Warren and her story... I'm sure she had that conversation with the principle, and the school probably never documented her departure that way.

I know that I've been told that I should quit a job despite stellar reviews because I conflicted with someone in the management chain above me... I wasn't fired, but the hand writing was on the wall.

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BeyondGeography

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9. JacobinMag got the ball rolling on this big fail
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 02:02 PM
Oct 2019
In a post on Twitter last week, Meagan Day, a writer for the socialist magazine Jacobin, drew attention to an interview Ms. Warren gave in 2007 in which she recalled the end of her teaching career and did not describe being forced out because she was pregnant, instead suggesting she left teaching because she lacked the education courses she needed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-fired-pregnant.html?searchResultPosition=7


Nice to see people putting aside their ideological differences to fight a common enemy.
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left-of-center2012

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10. If you read the linked article ...
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 02:06 PM
Oct 2019

Reads like the school gave the job to a 'qualified' teacher?
Warren says she did not have "the education courses".

"I was married at nineteen and graduated from college after I'd married,
and my first year post-graduation I worked in a public school system with the children with disabilities.

I did that for a year, and then that summer I didn't have the education courses, so ...
I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education ...
so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years


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Blue_true

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11. You left out a key part around when she took the graduate courses.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 09:03 PM
Oct 2019

Why didn't you post the whole quote from that part of her recollection?

When I was in elementary school, I remember lots of male teachers being short on teaching Certs. They kept their jobs and were usually allowed to take college courses during two summers to meet the Certs - they taught while gaining the Certs. I don't remember a single teacher that was in her twenties getting pregnant or having kids during my 1-12 years (did not have kindergarten then and certainly no pre-K).

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boomer_wv

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12. Seems like....
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 12:24 AM
Oct 2019

This attack is originating out of the Sanders camp. Warren is pulling a lot of support from him and they are going to start taking their shots.

I've never thought that it was likely that Sanders and Warren would team up. Sanders is going to carry this thing to the end regardless of how he's doing or what chances he has.

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