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eridani

(51,907 posts) Fri Oct 2, 2015, 05:28 AM Oct 2015

Teacher who told 4-year-old that being left-handed was evil and sinister resigns

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/30/1426318/-Teacher-who-told-4-year-old-that-being-left-handed-was-evil-and-sinister-resigns

According to NewsChannel 4, the teacher who told 4-year-old Zayde that using one's left hand was evil, has resigned. Being a child abuser is not something you want in a pre-school teacher.

Friday, KFOR spoke with the family of a little girl who told them if she wrote with her left hand at school, she’d get “put in the corner.”

Alli said her teacher made her write with her right hand, even though she’s left-handed.

Good news and bad news here. The good news is that this "teacher" sounds like she's an equal-opportunity insane person and not a garden-variety racist insane person. The bad news is that she believes in a God that is too weak to protect children for being left-handed and therefore too weak to protect those children from the abuse of this shitty person.

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Teacher who told 4-year-old that being left-handed was evil and sinister resigns (Original Post) eridani Oct 2015 OP

Got to resign instead of being fired TexasProgresive Oct 2015 #1

Oklahoma is OK for getting this person away from children Demeter Oct 2015 #2

She resigned because sunnystarr Oct 2015 #3

it's like the Enlightenment never happened for some people phantom power Oct 2015 #4

In an older period of time, sinister did mean "left." not "evil." 1monster Oct 2015 #5

My great-grandmother Bettie Oct 2015 #6

TexasProgresive

(12,263 posts)

1. Got to resign instead of being fired

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 05:42 AM

Oct 2015

I wonder if the teacher will get a glowing recommendation from this school for future jobs of abusing children.

Demeter

(85,373 posts)

2. Oklahoma is OK for getting this person away from children

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 06:07 AM

Oct 2015

good job!

sunnystarr

(2,638 posts)

3. She resigned because

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 07:26 AM

Oct 2015

she discovered that she wasn't teaching in a Christian school. I'm sure she's found one now where it's OK to abuse wicked left-handed 4 year old's.

phantom power

(25,966 posts)

4. it's like the Enlightenment never happened for some people

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 07:51 AM

Oct 2015

1monster

(11,026 posts)

5. In an older period of time, sinister did mean "left." not "evil."

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 08:29 AM

Oct 2015

but that was a long, long time ago...

Bettie

(16,863 posts)

6. My great-grandmother

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:58 AM

Oct 2015

was convinced that my being left handed was a serious problem. She tried over and over to switch the crayon or pencil to the other hand, but it never took and finally, my grandmother asked her to just stop.

She stopped and never mentioned it again, but I still remember being in Kindergarten and being afraid to color at home because Gramma would be waiting to pounce on my crayon-holding deficiencies.

And still, I miss that cranky old lady. She died when I was 13 at the age of 97 and was one of the few positives of a really sucky childhood, even with her somewhat eccentric ideas.

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