James Taranto notes:
In his news conference yesterday, President Obama said that he “had a chance to meet a young man named Robert Baroz,” a teacher who had “received three pink slips because of budget cuts.” The Boston Herald [link] reports that the president stretched the truth almost to the breaking point:
It is technically true that Obama had a chance to meet Baroz. But the closest Baroz actually got to Obama was the front row of a Rose Garden press conference. . . .
Baroz has in fact received three pink slips in four years, but in each case, his job was saved, either through stimulus funds or the 2010 Congressional Jobs Bill. He now works as a literacy and data coach at the Curley K-8 School in Jamaica Plain, analyzing MCAS data and applying it to teachers’ everyday lessons.
So Obama didn’t meet Baroz, Baroz didn’t get fired, and he’s a “literacy and data coach,” which seems to be something other than a teacher.
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