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[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 64 points 2 years ago

1950? This happened to me in the 90s

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago

Same here but in the 80s. Teacher would slap my hand with a ruler and force me to switch to my right hand. She also regularly told me I was evil and had the devil in me. My mom came to the school after she found out and nearly killed that teacher.

I'm still a lefty.

I may or may not be evil...

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

We’re literally sinister.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago
[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

3rd grade teacher, first day of school. Was writing my name on my desk card. Next thing I know, I had yard stick slam down on my wrist. Got hit so hard that my wrist was swollen for days after

[-] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 10 points 2 years ago
[-] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Their wrist, they already said.

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[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago
[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Ahhh good old bottom of the charts for most state rankings.

Sorry you had to go through that. I’m a lefty and would have probably ended up in detention if they had tried that with me by 3rd grade.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

You know that feeling when you're shocked and appalled, but not the least bit surprised? The one all good people have experienced with alarming frequency for the last decade or so?

I've been lamenting that there's no name for it, but you know what? Let's just call it Mississippi, since the consistently worst state in the Union (and for a while the worst state in the Confederacy, probably) is pretty much synonymous with that feeling.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Where are you from, Alabama 100 years from now?

[-] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Started school in 2001, my mother - a lefthanded person herself! - tried the first 4 years of primary school to get me to write with the "correct" hand (unsuccessfully)

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this happened to my mom. She still gets left & right mixed up all the time. We blame it on them making her become right-handed.

[-] Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Happened to me in 2000 😅

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Same, it's insane how many teachers saw it and thought "not on my watch"

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