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>>>After engineering college I went back to school to get a degree in History, which I accomplished, with the thought to become a teacher. I graduated and at the same time the schools in the San Francisco Bay Area were letting go tenured teachers who were Caucasian, to give African Americans an opportunity to become teachers. That was 1975.
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>>You have evidence for that last statement? Letting tenured teachers go requires some serious due process. Giving hiring preference to minorities, I'd believe, but firing whites to hire minorities seems really unlikely.
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>>Tamar
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>Tamar;
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>This is not a court of law. You may not find this information on the Internet. It is fact though. I have two friends – Lane and Carol, who are husband and wife. They were teachers and let go in 1975 for the reason I stated. They have two daughters and they moved to southern California where they continue to work as teachers.
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>By the way there were many positions, which came under local, state and federal laws “hiring practices and employment”. This event was called reverse discrimination. You do not have to believe a word of it but for what it is worth it did occur in many industries and places of business to one degree or another. This event was the most severe case I am aware of – letting people go because of his/her race.
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The whole reason for the tenure system is to protect teachers from being fired arbitrarily or because of their politics. It's exceptionally difficult to fire a tenured teacher. You need cause and due process.

Perhaps your friends weren't tenured.

Tamar