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I was in Catholic schools through the '60s and I have similar memories. I recall one poor left-handed kid who was made to stand at a side chalk board through most of 4th grade, trying in vain to duplicate the cursive the nun had written there with his right hand. He failed 4th grade and probably had to suffer through that narrow-minded old lady for yet another year.
I had hoped this kind of idiocy had ended, but apparently not.
That brought back a memory of a different kind to me.
In 7th grade a had a female math teacher who was older (I would say in her early 50s) who was VERY buxom. As she would be writing math problems on the chalk board, moving from left to right, the front of her...well, you know...would slide across the chalk board, erasing some of what she was writing, and there would be chalk marks on...well, you know.
When my mom went to school, the teachers all made kids write with their right hands, but that was in the 1930s, not in 2015. Back then, I don't know what the actual reasons were, . . .
One practical reason: before the invention of ball-point pens, writing left-handed meant you would be dragging your hand across the wet ink. Ballpoint pens were not commonly used until after World War II.
I'm 30. My siblings and I grew up in another, more conservative country. My brother is a leftie. When he was little, the nuns used to beat his left finger tips with a ruler to make it painful for him to write with his left hand. At home, he still write with his left hand, though. Nowadays, he's the only person I've ever known to be able to write with both hands. Kinda weird to see him demo every once in a while.
The nuns were the ones who should have been beaten.But because they wear that thing on their head guess they could get away with child abuse.....
I'm 30. My siblings and I grew up in another, more conservative country. My brother is a leftie. When he was little, the nuns used to beat his left finger tips with a ruler to make it painful for him to write with his left hand. At home, he still write with his left hand, though. Nowadays, he's the only person I've ever known to be able to write with both hands. Kinda weird to see him demo every once in a while.
Going by the title alone, I thought this could've been some sort of Chinese school related thing, as they traditionally shun left handers too. Heard one person write beautifully with his right hand, then use scissors for his left hand to cut quickly and precisely.
Speaking of which, this always amazes me when I watch it. With both hands at the same time! Video quality is bad, but hopefully you can make out enough of it. Relevant part goes on for only 12 seconds.... https://youtu.be/dyNntYEKFhE?t=6m20s
An Oklahoma teacher tells a pre k 4 year old that being left handed is evil and sinister.
In his defense, the teacher in question likely believes that the earth is flat, masturbation causes blindness and Gypsies kidnap infants and drink their blood under the light of the full moon.
Where do Christians get this crap? No where in the bible is the devil left-handed.
I guess it was because the quote that the teacher declared it "evil". Being a lefty who writes and eats right handed but shoots lefty, I guess I can't be a British soldier or with a left dominant eye, or an Apache attack helicopter pilot. I have heard of the Japanese being forced to convert as children in their samurai era and of the backing Hadith's in Islam beating down on the left handed minority. I am sure if we are getting away from bashing the one group anthropologist and historians can pull examples from many cultures
The world caters to the majority, the minorities adjust as best they can
I'd like to add-My husband really hates the phrase, "Seated on the right hand of God", as if the right were the favored side. This is found in the Old Testament as well as the new.
I'd like to add-My husband really hates the phrase, "Seated on the right hand of God", as if the right were the favored side. This is found in the Old Testament as well as the new.
I'm surprised your husband "hates" that phrase. Myself included, I have never met another lefty as easily offended as those in this thread. Most of us silently smirk in our superiority, and are more knowledgeable about the reasons/origins for phrases like that. At the time that phrase originated the right side WAS favored, as the left hand was commonly used to wipe excrement from your behind. Even someone born left handed would favor someone's right hand in general. Maybe you could pick up a few books for your husband about what/why being left handed was considered "bad".
I'm so tired of people wanting to be victims. When I was in school (70s/80s) I had a kindergarten teacher and several subs who thought this way. My mother read the kindergarten teacher the riot act then taught me what to say to ignorant adults instead of raising me to be a thin skinned victim.
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