Argumentative Essay On Left Handed

Almost Ten percent of the population is left-handed. Growing up being left handed has forced me to adapt to situations that were simple for a right handed person. In my early childhood, I was forced to use my right hand when I would use a computer mouse. When it was time to write in our notebooks I was always aggravated with the metal spiral rubbing against my hand in my notebook. Once I reached high school, the desk was another change I had to adapt to; the desks were made for right handed people. It allowed them to rest their elbow while writing, Left-handers do not have an elbow rest. Left-handed people are struck with problems all around the world today in ways of non-compatible product design, forced right handed learning, and receiving

Children learn by observational learning; this means they see someone they look up to do something and then they do it. When my parents taught me how to brush my teeth, they used their right hand to hold the brush. My right hand isn’t as precise as my left. Some parents unknowingly force their child to use their right hand because they do it themselves. Teachers sometimes may not realize it, but they can also be forcing a student to write with their right hand. This is more popular in the pre-school and kindergarten years. A student from Indiana says that her "fourth grade teacher, in an attempt to "cure" my left-handedness, would force me to use my right hand to perform all of my school work. If she caught me using my left hand, I was hit in the head with a dictionary. It turned out that she believed left-handers were connected with Satan. Left-handed bias in the classroom has got to stop. In many ways, left-handers should be more successful in the educational environment. It 's the tools and paradigms that are their real handicap." Teachers typically have an unspoken bias forcing left handed students to use their right hand in many different ways such as writing, using scissors, and