Teacher forces student to be right-handed!

I think it is instances like that which explains why so many adults have HORRIBLE handwriting!! I don't think they really force kids one way or another now - I remember when i was in school they would encourage us to use our right hands, but they also had special scissors if you were left-handed.

nop i am left handed. i know for sure that the teacher doesn't have the right to basically force you to write with your right. the person should have told a consular.

I never had this happen to me when I was going to school and I'm older than you. I can't believe your teacher made you go through this. How awful! As a lefty no one, and I mean NO ONE, should be forced to have to write right handed. I remember reading in a book by Laura Ingalls Wilder about a left handed student who was forced to write right handed. If I remember right, the teacher actually tied this student's hand down to his desk, so that he had no choice but to write using his right hand. This was the first time I had ever heard about such an incident. And it's a shame that it happened to you. I don't blame you for hating your teacher. I know I would have resented a teacher of mine had they done this to me.

When i had my first daughter everytime she would pick up a spoon, crayon, whatever,in her left hand i would move it to her right hand it never occured to me that she might be left-handed (i was only 19- thats not a good excuse it's just the only one i have). My husband and i were both right handed. She still complaines( at age 28) that i screwed up her wiring! By the time i had my second child i relized that she would use wichever hand was comfortable and she did -her left! I let her teacher know that she was coming into school left-handed and i expected her to leave the same way! That is a conversation that i also had with my sons teacher 17yrs later. So i have 2 righies and 2lefties.