Zayde Sands, a left-handed four-year-old Pre-K student in Okemah, Oklahoma, was forced by his teacher to write with his right hand after she told him writing with his left hand was ‘evil.’
Zayde’s mother Alisha, who is also left-handed, says that Zayde always used his left hand for everything. His mother said, “From picking things up to throwing things, to batting, to writing, to just coloring you’d do at home with him, he’s always, always used his left hand.” So last week while helping Zayde with his homework, she was surprised to see him writing with his right hand and decided to ask him if his teachers had said anything about his hands. Zayde lifted his left hand and said that it was bad. Alisha sent the teacher a note and was shocked when the teacher sent back an article calling being left-handed “unlucky,” “evil,” and “sinister.” It even said “for example, the devil is often portrayed as left-handed.” Alisha took the article to the school’s superintendent with little response. “There was no suspension of any kind. There was basically nothing done to this teacher. She told them she thought I needed literature on it. I don’t feel like the school did what they were supposed to for him,” Alisha said.
(via KFOR)
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