2016 Postmortem
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(108,925 posts)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.