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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re:sceular humanism banned etc.
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 13:13:18 EDT
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> >BULLSHIT. I was going to catholic schools then, and none of my left 
> >handed peers were being beaten for it. 
> 
> If you had read my posting I guess you could imply that I meant *ALL* 
> Catholics were beating their left handed children. So sorry. What I meant 
> was that the two catholic schools I was familiar with (neither located 
> in Maine, neither had teachers named Bottom, neither had a majority of 
> Red headed teachers) separated geographically by 1500 miles or so, did 
> in fact attempt to make left handed students right handed. 

    My SO still carries ruler scars across her left knuckles as a result
of parochial schooling as a left hander.  However, parochial schools were
by no means the only schools which practiced this type of cruelty.  My
left handed mother recounts stories of being punished, having her left
hand tied behind her back, etc, in a public school.  It's rather appalling
that this type of brutality was apparently publicly condoned and supported
so recently.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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    Silly quote: "There are a few off-the-wall extremists, who are shunned
                  by us moderates." - Don Black