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In Everything Is Stupid, part 459,349, a 4-year-old pre-kindergarten student in Oklahoma was allegedly encouraged by his teacher to use his right hand, despite a natural inclination for being left-handed, because of left-handed superstition. When the boy’s mother Alisha Sands noticed one day that her son Zayde was writing with his right hand instead of his left, she asked him why. Zayde responded that his teacher had told him that his left hand was “the bad hand.”
Sands contacted the teacher — surely thinking there must have been a miscommunication — and received a response in the form of an article calling left-handedness “unlucky,” “evil,” and “sinister.” She was also told by the teacher that “the devil is often portrayed as left-handed.”
“It breaks my heart for him because someone actually believes that, believes my child is evil because he’s left handed, it’s crazy,” Sands said.
“There was no suspension of any kind. There was basically nothing done to this teacher,” Sands says, “She told them she thought I needed literature on it.”
Oklahoma’s News Channel 4 reached out to the principal of the public elementary school where the teacher is employed, who said that the matter is being investigated and then hung up on the reporter. Brave new times we live in.
(Via News Channel 4)
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Maybe it’s because I just woke up and can’t figure out what I’m reading. You mean a day care worker? What do I care? Am I awake? Is this real life?
Welcome to the new Uproxx! Stay tuned for an article written about Ronda Rousey and Amy Schumers thoughts on this tragedy
You know, if the Romans had just put the goddamn toga pocket on the right, we wouldn’t have this problem (no, seriously, pockets on togas tended to be on the left side, and since the majority of people are right-handed, what began as a minor fashion annoyance has mutated into THIS.)
Was convinced this had to be Texas. Nope: Texas’s not-quite-right-in-the-head cousin, Oklahoma.
I thought this nonsense had gone out by the mid-20th Century. My father (born in 1910) was, indeed, STRONGLY encouraged to become a “righty,” which he did. So much so that in the mid 1930’s he was the third ranked amateur tennis player in New Jersey. When I started school 40 years later, no one ever gave me grief about being a lefty, and my sports coaches generally loved it! (Actually, I’m about 60% lefty, 40% righty, almost ambidextrous.) My youngest daughter is a true, full lefty, and has a very healthy social worker practice. We’re sinister?