Being a left handed person, I got to experience extra tender mercies from the educational system trying to convert me. School was miserable.
I can believe the rest of the stats.
I feel your pain. My 2nd grade teacher was awful about it. Then of course, there are the scissors that never cut, spiral notebooks we can never completely fill, ink and pencil lead from the tip of your pinky to your wrist, and don’t get me started on gel pens....
I was on a bowling league as a kid. They had bowling instructors there but I was on my own. They didn’t know where to begin showing a lefty how to bowl haha.
My husband never saw a “left handed” desk in school until he got to college. Learning to write, he always got called out by the teacher for grubby papers. Unless you hold the paper sideways, your left hand always drags across what has just been written — a distinct disadvantage if you are writing with a soft pencil, or with a pen and real ink (as we had to learn to do in school).