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pnwmom

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13. As late as the 1990's, I was told that my daughter couldn't have an appropriate math placement
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 03:22 PM
Jul 2016

because she was a girl.

The middle school was set to ignore the placement recommendation that the elementary school had made, based on the work she was doing there. The principal insisted that all students benefited from standard sixth grade math. She admitted that there was a 6th grader who was taking 8th grade math, but that was different, she said, because he was a boy.

It took me a month of pushing but my daughter finally got the math she wanted. (Math, for her, was like chocolate. Reading was broccoli.) And she ended up with a PHD in engineering.

But that stupid school in 1994 wanted to tell me she couldn't take the right math class because she was a girl.

All of us have stories like this. All of us feel more hopeful because Hillary Clinton just broke that barrier. I think a huge wave of excited women will go to the polls in November.

Thanks for sharing. Skinner Jul 2016 #1
Yes, thank you RexCasual Jul 2016 #2
Beautiful OP! Spazito Jul 2016 #3
I'm right there with you. Lisa D Jul 2016 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill Jul 2016 #7
Mid 70s treestar Jul 2016 #21
As a 43-year old woman who was told in HS women were "too emotional" to be president auntpurl Jul 2016 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill Jul 2016 #8
They used to say that women's menstrual cycles made them too unstable to be President. pnwmom Jul 2016 #32
I got chills reading that! GumboYaYa Jul 2016 #6
K&R ismnotwasm Jul 2016 #9
Me too. I grew up the only liberal in the 60s South. I'm so happy. nolabear Jul 2016 #10
I always got excuses like... bekkilyn Jul 2016 #11
I'm right there with you but I am BlueMTexpat Jul 2016 #12
As late as the 1990's, I was told that my daughter couldn't have an appropriate math placement pnwmom Jul 2016 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill Jul 2016 #15
Thank you, hamster jill! pnwmom Jul 2016 #25
It's still sometimes shocking for me that people STILL THINK like that forjusticethunders Jul 2016 #14
Yes, yes. Skidmore Jul 2016 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill Jul 2016 #17
Kick for Sisterhood! Let's do this for our daughters and our sons! Hekate Jul 2016 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill Jul 2016 #19
My grandma was a suffragette, now almost 70, I hear her words Pathwalker Jul 2016 #20
I come from a long line of independent, strong women myself. hamsterjill Jul 2016 #22
It's a great week to be a woman! Our foremothers have led us here, Pathwalker Jul 2016 #23
Thank You for sharing .... Kathy M Jul 2016 #24
I feel the same, and I'm a woman in my 60's. redstatebluegirl Jul 2016 #26
My mother is alive and I knew what to send her for her birthday this summer -- pnwmom Jul 2016 #31
Thank you, hamsterjill ailsagirl Jul 2016 #27
Thank you. DinahMoeHum Jul 2016 #28
Fellow "woman of a certain age" here mcar Jul 2016 #29
K&R! DemonGoddess Jul 2016 #30
+1000 smirkymonkey Jul 2016 #33
That's how we raised our girls, too DFW Jul 2016 #34
KnR. It was a special moment. Here's to fighters! R B Garr Jul 2016 #35
Just be prepared for what's to come.... oioioi Jul 2016 #36
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