Most people don't fully understand how difficult it is to write with your left hand, especially in school.
The first and most obvious problem is created by right-handed desks, forcing us lefties to reach across our bodies to write with no support for our arm. Now, granted, there are usually one or two desks in a classroom for left-handers, but with 8-10% of the population being lefties, that leaves a shortage of left-handed desks in every classroom in America.
The fact that the English language is written from left to right creates an even bigger disadvantage for left-handers though, because it forces us to push the pen across the page. This is in stark contrast to all those righties who get to effortlessly drag the pen across the page while resting their arm on that comfortable right-hander desk of yours.
Fortunately for us lefties though, we're inherently smarter than our right handed counterparts:
The first and most obvious problem is created by right-handed desks
I had a good laugh at your post thinking it was rather clever humor and was about to write something witty back about left handed shot glasses, nunchucks, and corkscrews, but then I Googled "left handed desk" just in case and.. crap, you're not kidding! What horrible bloody desks kids are subjected to in your country!
He was being dramatic when he said "every classroom in America." I never saw any serious deployment of asymmetric desks before college. Rather just a handful of them mixed in with a Frankenstein-like assortment of worn-out furniture spanning the 20th century. They were to be avoided.
The first and most obvious problem is created by right-handed desks, forcing us lefties to reach across our bodies to write with no support for our arm. Now, granted, there are usually one or two desks in a classroom for left-handers, but with 8-10% of the population being lefties, that leaves a shortage of left-handed desks in every classroom in America.
Umm, given 20-30 people in a class, that comes out to 2-3 left handed desks...
Your points are valid, as he or she forgot to mention the following:
In most classrooms, not a day goes by without the teacher requesting students rearrange their desks to work in groups together, and that's all it takes for the desks to be in a different order for the next class.
Even if left-handed desks never moved, there are no rules that left-handed desks are actually for left-handers only. As a classroom fills up, it's hard to tell which remaining desks are left-handed. It's also hard for right-handers to remember to look for the same, and end up sitting wherever they were about to, along with left-handers.
Left-handed desks are worthless when there are no policies about actually using them. And half-desks are worse than full-desks, anyway.
As a lefty, I hope that people don't read that website and think we're all melodramatic crybabies! Lots of things in life are a little bit harder when you're left handed, fortunately we were granted extra brains to help deal with it.
Three of the last four US presidents were left handed. Is that some kind of institutionalized discrimination against right-handed politicians?
The first and most obvious problem is created by right-handed desks, forcing us lefties to reach across our bodies to write with no support for our arm. Now, granted, there are usually one or two desks in a classroom for left-handers, but with 8-10% of the population being lefties, that leaves a shortage of left-handed desks in every classroom in America.
The fact that the English language is written from left to right creates an even bigger disadvantage for left-handers though, because it forces us to push the pen across the page. This is in stark contrast to all those righties who get to effortlessly drag the pen across the page while resting their arm on that comfortable right-hander desk of yours.
Fortunately for us lefties though, we're inherently smarter than our right handed counterparts:
http://isittrue.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=1319838...
Who's to argue with Einstein, Newton, Franklin and Picasso? :)