bottom@katadn.DEC (09/24/85)
>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. I asked my mother about this and she told me this was the practice in the schools she attended, geographically located 600 miles from one of the schools and 1700 from the other, I assumed that this practice was more widespread than it obviously was (according to you). The other more humanitarian tortures that the good sisters thought up were also used for a variety of reasons, most of them having nothing to do with education. I do not believe that "christians" (fit your definition here) should have any more influence on education than any other group, possibly less because of their demostrated inablity to understand that some people do not subscribe to their superstitions, and do not want their children to have their education censored in order to make it acceptable to the christians. I am not prejudiced against any particular religion, I fell they are *all* based on misinterpertation of available facts. Your refute of my posting, shows that *YOU* are in fact prejudiced in favor of Catholics, I wouldn't expect anthing other that that as you obviously were raised as one. As I was. Big deal. Dave Bottom DEC Augusta Maine !dec-rhea!dec-katadn!bottom
js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) (09/25/85)
> >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