Fortunately or unfortunately, the stigmas about the left hand being unclean and not for use in daily life were propagated in mosques and places of worship to help reduce illness caused by eating contaminated food. (If you've ever had Ethiopian food, you know you scoop the meat and veggies up with the injera from a communal plate...with your hand. No other utensils.) Just like the Bible's comments about washing feet were used as a way to improve hygiene in the Middle Ages and convince people that baths are good, so too did this separation between hands help stem the spread of disease. That the left hand got the dirty work is a matter of numbers. If you want to give orders about how to eat, it's far easier to just reinforce what is natural for the largest section of your society. If that means 10% of your population always feels a little awkward when eating, but illness goes down...seems a reasonable sacrifice on the part of the 10%. That said, I'm a lefty. Amusingly, while I write left and my left eye is dominant, I bat, kick, golf, and throw with my right hand. C'est la vie. My dad would be a lefty too, but he went to Catholic school where the nuns all but tied his left hand behind him to force him to use his right hand to write. Result? His handwriting is awful and cramped. P.S. if the lack of left-handed desks in a public school bothers you... Consider that they cost more to make (have to reverse all the machinery) and public school funds aren't limitless. -- or you can do what I did twist a bit and face your right-side neighbor. Maybe they'll be cute and you can flirt in class.
I'd rather my school pay the salary of my favorite teacher than give me a left-handed desk. But that's me. (And, tragically, that's the state of education these days.)
Alternatively, you could go to the principal's office and see if they have any left-handed or straight-on desks. Many schools have 1-2, and MAYBE, if you make them aware that you would request it, they could move one such desk to your classroom (or to the classroom where you have the most writing).
I started out as a lefty. Now I do just as many things right handed as left handed but I still write left handed. For example, I play tennis left handed, racquetball right handed, baseball left handed, basketball right handed, bowling either hand, throwing distance left handed, throwing accurate right handed, darts right handed, soccer right footed, but I jump higher (like in basketball) off my left foot.
Oh and I write right handed if its on a chalkboard but otherwise I write lefty. I don't like writing lefthanded on a chalkboard because the way I tilt the chalk as a lefty doesn't do we'll with the heavy friction when writing on the chalkboard when having to write from left to right.
I actually read all of it, except for the last part of the names . Interesting, never knew about this. Right handed myself, but I sometimes use my left hand for stuff, never handwriting though. Chalkboards and whiteboards are old fashioned. ._.
Lol if you a guy you want to be left handed if you play baseball and pitch!!! You make more money cause you are left handed so it's not bad to be different