Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re:sceular humanism banned etc. Message-ID: <1169@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 13:13:18 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1169 Posted: Wed Sep 25 13:13:18 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 03:32:03 EDT References: <558@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.politics:11180 net.flame:12048 > >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 ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j Silly quote: "There are a few off-the-wall extremists, who are shunned by us moderates." - Don Black Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com