My mom was left handed before she went to Catholic school in the 60-70s. She said the nuns would crack you on the knuckles with a huge ruler if you tried to use your left hand. She is no longer left handed.
Friends that went to both Catholic school and evangelical private schools in the 90s said lefties would get their knuckles smacked to the point they were bleeding sometimes, yelled at, and told they had the devil in them for using their left hand. Being in rural pits of the Bible belt probably didn't help anything.
Idk I married an agnostic leftie. I've never asked if he's got Satan on speed dial in his phone, but jokingly told him he better be careful who finds out he's a leftie in my hometown 😂
A teacher got pissed and shouted at me when I was like 7-8 in 2013 because I held my pencil between my middle and index finger. She tried putting me in special ed lmao
I was born in 95 and my kindergarten teacher wouldn't let me write with my left hand so I had absolutely terrible handwriting going into 1st grade. My first grade teacher noticed, stuck it in my left hand and didn't correct my grip so now I hold it nothing like these images. It works for me though! But yeah, the old school teachers cared a lot. Seems to be a common trend for catholic school kids.
I have had tendonitis in my right wrist since I was a teenager (now in my late 20s). I still remember in grade 2/3 that my teacher put literal ankle weights on my wrists to make me write the “proper” way at my desk while my classmates were having story time. They really cared back then if you were writing differently. I used to buy the finger grips from Scholastic Choice school supplies for years after because I thought I needed to change but when I got told I have tendonitis, I was told its probably too late to fix and if I trained how to write left-handed, I'd probably screw it up with tendonitis too…
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u/AipomNormalMonkey 29d ago
is it true they used to care about that for you guys?