And We Know This Because President Obama Is
Four year old Zayde suddenly became right handed after being consistently left handed. It kinda made his mother wonder.
“I just asked ‘Is there anything his teachers ever asked about his hands?’ And he raises this one and says this one’s bad,” Sands said.
Alisha sent the teacher a note and got a strong response.
It was an article calling left-handedness “unlucky,” “evil,” and “sinister.”
It even says “for example, the devil is often portrayed as left-handed.”
And the teacher had proof.
Just look what being left handed did to Barack Obama. And Bill Clinton.
Thanks to Rick for the heads up.
That’s the teacher who also put the horseshoe upside down over her front door. Her luck already done run out!
1http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left.html
Someone needs to send her this, preferably wrapped around a brick and tossed through her windshield.
2Apropos of nothing, I’m a heathen but I always throw a pinch of salt over my left shoulder when cooking. Picked up that habit from my superstitious Irish grandmother. Not superstitious at all myself, for me it’s just a reminder of her.
Carry on.
3Fear the st00pid, they’re taking us back to the 17th century with all their Xtian zeal.
4This myth is over 2000 yrs old. “Sinister” is Latin for left. Blame the Romans.
5And we will start our day with burning of witches and casting out of demons. WTF?
6I guess time travel is a real thing, since this teacher got here from several hundred years ago. Invincible ignorance….
7I like to imagine, what else is she teaching her students?
8When I read this story I wondered how she keeps her teaching credential. Then I wondered if she even has a teaching credential at all. I’m all aboot supporting teachers, but this one, not so much.
9That’s why we’re leftists, and they’re “right”. I wonder what would happen if nuns with rulers tied their kids’ right hands behind their backs for a decade or so ?
10I think the new image of the Devil should be a bullying Oklahoma pre-school teacher.
11Regarding what Ralph Wiggam wrote above, Sinister is Latin for left, indeed. But Dexter is Latin for right. Does that mean right-handed people are blood spatter analysts/serial killers?
12First of all, it’s Oklahoma and then it’s Pre-K. Not sure how qualified their Pre-K teachers are, but this one needs literature on the psychological side effects of forcing children to use the right hand when they are left handed. She is doing harm to this child and others and should not be in the classroom.
13Right handed is a great thing to be. Until the day you slam your right hand in a door or hit it with a hammer and have to use the left one. Then you realize that maybe you are pretty useless. It’s one thing not to be able to write with the left one, but try wiping your butt with it. I say everyone should practice on being a little ambidexterous. It might come in handy.
14That is creepy.
15@Glen
16(Thanks for the lead-in.)
I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Now wait a minute. There might be a little truth in the story.
After all George “Dubya” Bush is left handed.
Just saying…..
P.S. So am I, but I’m an exception….
17So, in Oklahoma…. according to this Pre-K teacher, being left-handed is sinful. (Tell that to Sandy Koufax). 🙂
What is it called to be a Pre-K teacher, without brains in your head?
Just wondering.
18OK being a lefty sometimes is an inconvenience, but for the most part us lefties develop our right hand (yes we are ambidextrous) which absolutely confounds our friends and relatives. I write with my left hand, I bowl with my right but I bowl “brooklyn” style – which means I approach the line to the left and hook to the right. I use scissors with my right hand but upside down (don’t ask me that’s what I do). Big advantage I use the mouse with the right hand and write with the left. We have better eye / hand coordination because we have to figure out how you right-handers are doing it (like crochet). My favorite conversation with my mom.
Mom: OMG, how can you use chop sticks with your left hand
Me: Cause I’m left handed????
Mom: It’s amazing
Me: I use my left hand with a fork
Mom: I know but those are chopsticks
Me: But I’m left handed!!!
Mom: I know – I raised you , but it’s still pretty amazing
Me: (OK now I’m laughing) – Yep, that and my other left handed feats of amazingness are never ending.
Repeat this conversations EVERY time we are at a chinese restaurant for the past 45 years.
Just call me a proud SOUTH PAW.
19Everyone is born right handed, only the gifted overcome it.
20And then there are the ambidextrous kids, like me! I drove my early elementary teachers nuts, then my parents switched me to a parochial school and the nuns could care less which hand I used to complete my work.
21Geez, I wonder if the teacher also checks for ghosts in her closets and boogie men under her bed?
My dad and oldest sister were lefties and they were just fine, thank you very much. Sis was very ambidextrous and multi-talented and one of the kindest people I have ever known. So there, st00pid teacher.
22Well, at least she is not teaching science….
Is she????
I would not believe another thing this teacher thought or said.
23Get your child out of there, ASAP
You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
From “South Pacific” by Rodgers & Hammerstein
24(I hope I got it right.)
coprolite @20 You’ve got that right! (pun intended)
Here is another one:
25Lefties are the only ones in their right minds.
And my better half! The most naturally talented person I ever met, and the reason I married her. (Actually, I got lucky and the she chose me.)
26I often wished I was left handed. In baseball a hitter is a step and a hlf closer to 1st base. The teacher is goofy.
27With regard to lots of things…
“Left” is right; “right” is wrong.
Just sayin’…
28my cousin has difficulty writing to this day…she’s in her mid-40’s.
her first and second grade teachers taped her left hand to the bottom of her desk, at her grandmother’s insistence, that she “not be an “up-to-no-good-oddball-left-handed-person”.
at *home* she continued as she had been born. by the time she was in third grade all of this came to light (the grandmother worked at her primary school and had orchestrated this mess) and she still has difficulties. “overcoming” brain wiring does not work effectively.
ask all the gays who became straight after brainwashing. oh, wait…
29Like Tony, I’m lucky to be married to a left-hander. Amen to everything that Tony said!
30I write left-handed though I brush my teeth right handed and CANNOT switch hands. I’ve tried. I miss my mouth completely. And I put on lipstick left handed. What the hey is THAT about?
Lots of other things I do right-handed, as well. Carpentry. Crochet. The list goes on. When I’m learning a new skill I have to try it with each hand for a while to see which feels right.
And, of course, I must have had Zayde’s teacher in 4th grade. You’d think she would have figured out that things were pretty well fixed by that time – but NOOOOOOOO. She thumped my head with her hard, hard fingernails when she caught me using my left hand for anything. Made me do my homework over if it was neat [obviously I must have written it with my left hand.]
The only result was that my handwriting with my LEFT hand became extremely sloppy during the course of the year. It got so bad that my dad undertook to re-teach me penmanship the following summer.
Oh, there was one other result: I had been a decent student till that time but my grades began tumbling that year. Didn’t get better till I reached college, aamof.
31If the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body,
And the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
Does that mean only left-handed people
Are in their right minds?
(The faster you say it the more confounding it sounds. You’ll get a lot of whaaa?)
32I can understand the Right vs. Left only in the Bedouin tribes; they use their right hand to dip into the communal food dish, and the left hand is used to wipe their rears. This is due to the lack of water for washing.
Otherwise, this fool of a teacher should be fired and maybe allowed to flip burgers.
33I think that being left-handed makes me more creative and adaptable. Maybe because of the brain hemisphere thing. Or maybe, at least in part, because I constantly have to cope with a world that isn’t set up for me, and requires me to find a way to adjust
The hardest was learning to crochet out of a book, and mentally flipping all the diagrams around. This was decades ago, pre-internet, so there were no alternate instructions out there. It took me about 5 tries. It also affects cross-stitch or needlepoint, since I work from the other direction. Knitting is ambidextrous, so no problem. But when I was sewing, before they had either-hand scissors and shears, cutting patterns out tended to turn my thumb numb. I can’t use some rotary cutters, if the thumb release is only on one side.
A lot of appliances have now been redesigned for use with either hand. But back then, even ironing clothes was harder – the cord placement got in the way. And I still have to open cans right-handed, since left-handed can openers are pricey and hard to find.
It really does give you a slightly different view on the world.
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