Should scissors and writing utensils be taken out of public schools?

Question

(yes, this is an allegory)

As a left-handed person, I always felt like an outcast in school because almost all of my classmates were different from me. They would all use their right hand when cutting and writing, yet I had to use my left hand because I'm a southpaw. Even my teacher uses her right hand!

I say we should take pens, pencils, markers, crayons, and scissors out of public schools, because seeing right handers use their right hands is discriminatory to the small minority of left handers who can't use them. It's my constitutional right not to feel like an outcast in school, don't you agree?

Answer 1

Seeing people use their right hands & having people force YOU to use your right hand are two different things.

You felt like an outcast because you were different, not because people isolated you for being different. They didn't tell you that being right-handed was the right way & that you were wrong for being left-handed.

Religion has been (and should be) removed from schools because it pushes others beliefs on people who may not share those beliefs. EVERYONE feels different in school for many different reasons..... religion is a choice for each individual.... Why should children be outcast if they don't choose to believe the same thing as the majority? If you want religion in schools... go to a religious school! Public schools should be objective & non-favoritist no matter what religion the majority follows.

It's respect for other religions & other cultures!

Answer 2

So, are you mocking the Constitution in this one, and the fact the Bill of Rights, including the1st Amendment, protects the rights of the minority from a tyrannical majority?

Funny side note though - When I was a kid, I went to a private school. Yes, it was christian. The teachers there actually tried to get me to be right handed. It took my mom telling them to either leave it alone, or I would be taken to a different school. I don't know what the premise behind them trying that was, but they did. My father said that they did it when he was achild too. Like there was "something wrong" with someone who is left handed. Who knows, but it was interesting.

Answer 3

Why can't someone who's a southpaw use the same pen that I use as a righty? That doest make sense at all.

The constitution doesn't protect you from FEELING like an outcast, it does protect you though from your teacher saying, or teaching that being right handed is the "correct" way.

Answer 4

Here's the important difference, though...

Are right-handed people trying to take away the scissors and writing utensils of lefties, saying that only those who use their right hands count? Are southpaws constantly barraged by zealous fools insisting that "the U.S. was founded as a right-handed nation"?

Answer 5

Gosh, I see your point. Should we have religion checkpoints for kids before they enter schools?


See, I have a real-life allegory for you. My mom was born left-handed. All through school, she would get whacked on the knuckles for not using her right hand. Even though she can use her right hand, she is still left-handed. She will die left-handed.

Is this the school system that you propose?

Answer 6

My dad once told my dimwitted uncle (by marriage mind you...as in, no relation) that he needed to go ask the other workers for a left-handed hammer so he could do his job. He went and asked every single guy, and they all hid their snickers and said they didn't have one. He came back and told dad so dad told him to go see if they have a left-handed screwdriver then. Off he went in search of the left-handed screwdriver.

Funniest thing is that Uncle Paul wasn't even left-handed.

Does this have anything to do with your question? lol

Answer 7

What a weird person you are! What you suggesting is the same as demanding that all the other students have their right hand amputated because you lost yours in an accident.

Answer 8

That's like saying that my cute shoes make the kid with no legs feel like an outcast.

:-)

Is the pencil supposed to be Creationism or science?

Answer 9

Your allegory is a prime example of people whining about something that for most of the time people have put up with and gone on about their lives. As a society, we should not do away with what is most convenient for the majority. However, we should do what we can to accomodate those who have difficulties doing what the majority can do.

Answer 10

Left handed people should be allowed to write from right to left to make it easier for them.

My twin brother is left handed and he had trouble learning how to write from left to right because he was trying to mirror me.