Did Elizabeth Warren Lie About Her Teaching Career?

In the past few days, stories have come out in the media that have accused the presidential candidate of changing her story as to why she left her part-time teaching position as a speech pathologist in the early seventies.

I can tell you why:  It makes for a juicier story to say you were "fired" because a principal said you were pregnant and hired somebody else.  If that were really true, she'd have sued like others did for sex discrimination.  After all, sex was and remains a protected characteristic under federal and state law, though if Warren had her way, "sex" would no longer exist in the Civil Rights Act, which means women would be legally erased to make room for transvestites and crossdressers.  Laws later on passed that protected pregnant women from discrimination, but even so, it's Warren's word against a principal who has since died as to how she was supposedly "let go."

Furthermore, she didn't have "post-probationary" status, misnamed "tenure," which doesn't exist in public education, so a principal could let her go for any reason or no reason.  I personally think she is lying her ass off about why she left her teaching job.  Most women in that era who were pregnant left voluntarily from the labor force because they could afford to quit.  Most married women who had children did NOT work in the labor force in the early 1970s.  Their husbands made enough money so in most situations these women didn't have to work.  This was still during the era of the "family wage."  It was only a few years later, in the mid-1970s, that companies decided to screw over male employees by paying them less as more women joined the labor force.  Companies could get two workers for the price of one.    The trend  accelerated during the Reagan years with the salvo against unions, instigated by the PATCO firings, with ruinous trade agreements, and with the outsourcing of jobs to cheap labor countries.

And then, when the truth came out about the school district, far from wanting to terminate her,  actually offered to EXTEND her contract which she declined with documented proof this was the case, Warren still couldn't come clean as to her story.  She was assisted by some supporters such as this one who weren't even alive during that era and who wrote silly stories about other women who DID sue their districts when fired as "proof" this situation was the case with Warren, but Warren didn't bother suing.  In other words, she fucking lied about her teaching career.   She didn't work another year because she wanted to stay home with her baby, standard operating procedure with most women of that era.  She likely realized teaching simply wasn't for her and the pregnancy gave her an "out."   In addition, she was hired on an "emergency credential" and for whatever reason she didn't want to take the credits to have a clear credential.  The bottom line is this:  she wasn't fired, let alone fired over her pregnancy.  Her pregnancy had nothing to do with anything.  And no, school districts don't come out with minutes of their meetings with weasel words to save face--it was much less common back then to get rid of teachers they didn't want because most administrators were professionals and felt firing teachers would upset school morale.  Not nearly the case these days.  Teachers are tossed out into the street all the time, whether post-probationary or not.

Warren should have shut up about this to begin with.  I don't know why she ever brought it up.  Did she think the truth would never surface because her principal died?  It doesn't work that way.