Re: "all-girl" radio

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 30 Oct 99,  DonKelley@aol.com wrote:

> Anyway...she was a teacher there in the early 40's, then she got married. 
> And had to quit.  Department Policy.  If you're a woman and you got
> married, you must be planning to get pregnant.  Therefore we must replace
> you.  It was a Boston School Department policy.  Really.   Sometime in the
> 60's they relented and changed the policy, so my mother went back to the
> Burke and attempted to teach Valerie Holliday ans Donna Summer.    
 
I remember that policy.  I remember, when we lived in Allston, there was a 
particularly good 3rd grade teacher that I was looking forward to getting. 
But she left, and my mother explained that it was because a married woman 
could not get tenure and could only work on a temporary basis.  As a 
result, the school system was populated by a high number of Miss Grundys.  
And this during a period when there was an acute teacher shortage!

I had gathered that the school system had finally changed, but I didn't 
know when.


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