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This is a public school. It is outrageous that any teacher holds these views, but even if she does, it is ridiculous for her to berate a student about this.
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, but lefties often contorted their hands when they wrote because the simple fix of slanting the paper the opposite way was appparently not well-known. Because my mom had this experience, when my sister who is a leftie went to school, she was taught to slant the paper so that writing with her left hand worked fine for her.
This is a public school. It is outrageous that any teacher holds these views, but even if she does, it is ridiculous for her to berate a student about this.
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, but lefties often contorted their hands when they wrote because the simple fix of slanting the paper the opposite way was appparently not well-known. Because my mom had this experience, when my sister who is a leftie went to school, she was taught to slant the paper so that writing with her left hand worked fine for her.
It's one subject my father never addressed (a lifelong leftie), but one of my aunts did- said teachers used to crack her in the knuckles with a ruler whenever she tried to write with her left hand.
I'd venture a guess that it wasn't/isn't about it being easier to accidentally smear ink/lead when writing with left hand, but about obedience and conformity from teachers who were/are nothing but bullies. Plus the teacher in the article sounds like she's missing a few marbles.
Didn't happen when/where I went to school (NY), nobody ever made a big deal over the one left-handed kid in my class.
It's one subject my father never addressed (a lifelong leftie), but one of my aunts did- said teachers used to crack her in the knuckles with a ruler whenever she tried to write with her left hand.
I'd venture a guess that it wasn't/isn't about it being easier to accidentally smear ink/lead when writing with left hand, but about obedience and conformity from teachers who were/are nothing but bullies. Plus the teacher in the article sounds like she's missing a few marbles.
Didn't happen when/where I went to school (NY), nobody ever made a big deal over the one left-handed kid in my class.
In second grade when we were learning cursive, I remember my teacher going out of her way to help the one left-handed kid who was struggling to properly form the letters because he was writing them backwards. She never once criticized him for being left-handed and never tried to get him to write with his right hand. She just spent extra time on him, and held his hand as he wrote letters and words to guide him even though she was right-handed.
In second grade when we were learning cursive, I remember my teacher going out of her way to help the one left-handed kid who was struggling to properly form the letters because he was writing them backwards. She never once criticized him for being left-handed and never tried to get him to write with his right hand. She just spent extra time on him, and held his hand as he wrote letters and words to guide him even though she was right-handed.
Right on. That's the kind of teachers we need more of!!!
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