concentrate on the truly evil: redheads.
Posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:31 AM PDT by JoeProBono
OKEMAH, Okla. -- A 4-year-old was allegedly forced by his teacher to write with his right hand, even though he’s left-handed.
The child was sent home with a letter about how left-handedness is often associated with evil and the devil.
Zayde is only 4 years old.
It's his first year at Oakes Elementary in Okemah, but his mom kept him home Monday after a dispute with his teacher over being left-handed.
Zayde, like most kids in Pre-K, is learning how to read and write. And like his mom, Alisha, Zayde is a lefty.
“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,” Alisha Sands said.
That was until last week at homework time.
Alisha asked him why he was writing with his right hand, not his left.
“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.”
Alisha couldn’t believe it.
“It breaks my heart for him because someone actually believes that, believes my child is evil because he’s left handed, it’s crazy,” Sands said.
She went to the superintendent with the article.
“There was no suspension of any kind. There was basically nothing done to this teacher,” Sands says, “She told them she thought I needed literature on it.”
Zayde will likely transfer to another class just two months into the school year.
“I don’t feel like the school did what they were supposed to for him,” Sands said.
NewsChannel 4 called the school and were told the superintendent was out Monday, so they transferred us to the principal at Oakes Elementary.
She said she’s aware of the situation and the district is investigating. She hung up before we could ask any questions.
Sands is going to file a formal complaint with the Oklahoma Board of Education.
That said, Obama is left-handed. < g!>
Fire the teacher and the principal!
Sheikh Sulaymân al-Tuwayjirî
The left hand is used by a person to clean up filth, wash himself after going to the bathroom, and other similar activities. The right hand is used for clean practices like eating and shaking hands.
It is not permissible to eat with the left hand. Whoever does so has engaged in something unlawful and has committed a sin.
I thought it was gauche.
concentrate on the truly evil: redheads.
So why hasn't left-handedness been exterminated through natural selection?
Well, it seems that there was one area where left-handed people excelled; combat. And this is why some scientists believe left-handed people have survived to pass on their genes.
Yea but redheads steal souls.
You said, “This also goes back to a Christian religious belief.”
I have a hard time believing that.
Could you document where this is a “Christian” belief?
A quote from the New Testament would be helpful.
uh, there is no inherent evil in the concept of direction. up, down, front, back, left, right.
and i’m fairly confident that there’s nothing in the Bible that assigns universal evil to a specific direction.
Some famous/infamous left-handers...
Albert Einstein
Jack The Ripper
Napoleon Bonaparte
Julius Caesar
Aristotle
Neil Armstrong
Henry Ford
Marie Curie
Joan of Arc
Helen Keller
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/aug/13/2
I married one. I have not been the same since.
Five out of seven presidents since 1974 are left handed, Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Obama. In the 1992 presidential election All three of the candidates with the highest popular vote totals were left handed, Bush 41, Clinton, and Perot.
Jesus sat at the right hand of God. It all stems from that.
Those sinister leftys and soul less gingers..............
I can see a situation where the teacher was merely telling her young charges the origins of words for left handedness and the treatment of such people in bye gone eras. The kid runs home to her burka clad mom and spills the story of evil lefties. Mom runs with the story to embarrass the infidel and secure a few shekels in the ensuing lawsuit.
This is just one possible scenario..
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