Need to complain to school

Skyllo

Poppy9 wrote: »

Ooh hearing OH making me a cuppa reminded me that I bought a kettle that swivels on it's base so DD can use easily to make me tea:rotfl: (I'm such a considerate mother making allowances for her left handedness)

That is useful although some only have the measuring scale on one side so you can't see it! Not being able to make tea would be a big problem.

I find right-handed scissors are fine if they're sharp but those safety scissors you have in nursery/early primary school are useless for lefties! I got someone else to cut out for me. I still don't have left-handed scissors but I make sure I bring sharp ones if I need them.

I had a teacher in primary school that ensured all lefties got to sit so there was no one to their left to bang elbows with. I'm at university now and some rooms have chairs with tables attached and they're usually on the right, which is awkward.

I use my computer mouse with my left hand but keep the buttons the same way, as do most people.

The only thing that ever annoyed me was not being able to use pretty pens as they'd just smudge everywhere! I'm not a hook writer so I lean on what I've just written.

wdyw

In my university we have a lecture theatre that seats approx. 200 students. Every seat has a right-handed fold down writing tablet.

For a left handed person they are awful.

claire16c

Poppy9 wrote: »

Ooh hearing OH making me a cuppa reminded me that I bought a kettle that swivels on it's base so DD can use easily to make me tea:rotfl: (I'm such a considerate mother making allowances for her left handedness)

That has made me laugh because I dont drink tea myself, but use the kettle to boil water for cooking etc. But everytime I go to use it, it has been swivelled around and I keep thinking why is it in that position with the handle on the 'wrong' side,so annoying I have to keep moving it back (and in the process sometimes touching it on the wrong bit if Im in a hurry and burning myself).

Well Ive only realised from your post that its because my DH is left handed! And ive just peered at it now, and yep its back in that position :rotfl: Ive honestly never worked that out before!

Poppy9

wdyw wrote: »

In my university we have a lecture theatre that seats approx. 200 students. Every seat has a right-handed fold down writing tablet.

For a left handed person they are awful.

If I was left handed I would complain about that !

claire16c

My uni was like that too in one hall but it was incredibly old. None of the modern buildings had those type of seats.

bunty109

Poppy9 wrote: »

If I was left handed I would complain about that !

We had those in 6th form, but my school did have left handed ones. I'm another leftie who uses the mouse right-handed: it means I can use any computer I sit at without faffing around.

Lotus-eater

claire16c wrote: »

That has made me laugh because I dont drink tea myself, but use the kettle to boil water for cooking etc. But everytime I go to use it, it has been swivelled around and I keep thinking why is it in that position with the handle on the 'wrong' side,so annoying I have to keep moving it back (and in the process sometimes touching it on the wrong bit if Im in a hurry and burning myself).

Well Ive only realised from your post that its because my DH is left handed! And ive just peered at it now, and yep its back in that position :rotfl: Ive honestly never worked that out before!

We have this with our baby!
When he's changed by the OH she lays him one way on the changing mat and when I do it, the other way round.
Which means the changing mat gets shoved one way or another around the unit and a bare hard patch where his head is if the other person has been there.

LittleMissInDebt

I'm right handed and use the mouse in my Left hand I don't change anything on the computer just use it how it is. My mum is left handed and when I was gorwing up I couldn't be bothered to move the mouse so just learnt to do it left handed. My right handed son also uses the mouse in his left hand.

I can use it in my right as well, but prefer my left.

I do however think your daughter should be given left handed scissors as, as a right hander, I cannot use left handed scissors at all so imagine it's equally difficult the other way round.

HelenKA_2

We have one DD who is left handed, DH is too.

When she started school I provided left handed scissors for her, she had a good pencil grip from home so that wasn't an issue but I did mention her left handedness in passing to the teacher.

The scissors got lost pretty quickly but apparently they have a pool of both kinds to use, colour coded.

The thing I felt she needed to get was a good writing position and one of her teachers in particular was really great in supporting this. What she did was stick masking tape on the desk at the correct angle so that she wrote with a straight wrist rather than the 'hook'.

The mantra was point to tummy, ie the bottom right corner of the right side page should point to her tummy so that her wrist will sit at a comfortable ergonomic angle to the line she's writing on and she can see the words as she moves along the page.

milliebear00001

I am very late to this and haven't read the whole thing.

As a teacher, I make some adjustments for left-handers. I sit them so that their elbows don't clash with the person next to them and have left handed scissors available on every table. Beyond that though, I don't do anything much unless the child is really struggling with something (usually writing related) when it becomes a SEN issue and special equipment such as shaped pens etc may be required.

I don't know what extra needs your daughter has, or what conversation you've had with them, but I'm not sure you need to escalate this unless you are really sure you've exhausted the remit of the class teacher. What have you perceived to be a problem, what solution do you want and what response has the CT given to this?