In the 1970-71 year, her first full year teaching at the school, she taught English the first semester but then was asked to take over the “transition” class, which served 7th grade girls at risk of dropping out for a variety of reasons, even pregnancy. She graduated from the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Va., in 1968 and soon moved to Cleveland with her first husband, who was from there.Īfter pursuing a degree in social work, she found the job too bureaucratic and shifted to education, ending up in 1970 at Patrick Henry Junior High School in the Cleveland system. She grew up in Richmond, Va., attending school there as the district struggled to integrate after Brown v. The other was in a 2006 scholarly article in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.

One was in the 1988 book The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court, by Peter Irons. Nesset-Sale has provided at least two detailed recollections of her own experience. Those were the rules of the day, and most women were taught not to make waves, and could not afford to make waves.” Transitions at School Nesset-Sale said Warren’s account of being ousted because of her pregnancy “sounds absolutely plausible and likely to me. Senate candidate in 2012, she “opened up more about different pieces in my life, and this was one of them.” And she dismissed a 2007 interview in which she did not mention being ousted when discussing her teaching stint by saying that when she became a U.S.

She told CBS News in early October that she had not yet revealed her pregnancy when her contract with the Riverdale, N.J., school district was renewed.

Warren has recently pushed back against characterizations by conservatives that her account of being forced out because of her pregnancy was not backed up by fact.

Warren also has sometimes said publicly that she left because she lacked the proper certification to continue without further education courses. Nesset-Sale considers herself an admirer and supporter of Warren, and she is inclined to believe the senator’s account that pregnancy was the underlying reason she was forced out of her job as a speech therapist at a New Jersey school in 1971.

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