Editing Handedness (section)

====Discrimination in education====
Before the development of fountain pens and other writing instruments,  children were taught to write with a [[dip pen]]. While a right-hander could smoothly drag the pen across paper from left to right, a dip pen could not easily be pushed across by the left hand without digging into the paper and making blots and stains.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511576744.004 |chapter=The history and geography of human handedness |title=Language Lateralization and Psychosis |year=2009 |last1=McManus |first1=I. C. |pages=37–58 |isbn=978-0-511-57674-4 |editor2-first=Rene S |editor2-last=Kahn |editor1-first=Iris E. C |editor1-last=Sommer }}</ref> Even with more modern pens, writing from left to right, as in many languages, with the left hand covers and can smear what was just written when moving across the line.

Into the 20th and even the 21st century, left-handed children in [[Uganda]] were beaten by schoolteachers or parents for writing with their left hand,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/life/myths-about-left-handed-persons-4327468 |title=Myths about left-handed persons |date=8 August 2023 |first=Lydia Felly |last=Akullu |work=[[Daily Monitor]] |location=Uganda}}</ref> or had their left hands tied behind their backs to force them to write with their right hand.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kidsonthecoast.com.au/living/pros-and-cons-raising-a-left-handed-child-in-a-right-handed-world/ |title=Pros and cons: Raising a left-handed child in a right-handed world |website=Kids on the Coast|date=22 July 2022 }}{{self-published inline|date=May 2024}}</ref> As a child, the future British king [[George VI]] (1895–1952) was naturally left-handed. He was forced to write with his right hand, as was common practice at the time. He was not expected to become king, so that was not a factor.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kushner |first1=Howard I |title=Retraining the King's left hand |journal=The Lancet |date=June 2011 |volume=377 |issue=9782 |pages=1998–1999 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60854-4 |pmid=21671515 |s2cid=35750495 }}</ref> 

Depending on the position and inclination of the writing paper, and the writing method, the left-handed writer can write as neatly and efficiently or as messily and slowly as right-handed writers. Usually the left-handed child needs to be taught how to write correctly with the left hand, since discovering a comfortable left-handed writing method on one's own may not be straightforward.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lefthander-consulting.org/deutsch/InfoSchreiben.htm | title = Erste deutsche Beratungs- und Informationsstelle für Linkshänder und umge-schulte Linkshänder | language = de | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130922143207/http://www.lefthander-consulting.org/deutsch/InfoSchreiben.htm | archive-date = 2013-09-22 | work = lefthander-consulting.org  | access-date = 21 September 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://handedness.org/action/leftwrite.html | work = Handedness Research Institute | title = Teaching Left-Handers to Write | archive-url =  https://web.archive.org/web/20130923084340/http://handedness.org/action/leftwrite.html | archive-date=2013-09-23 | access-date = 21 September 2013 }}</ref>

In the [[Education in the Soviet Union|Soviet school system]], all left-handed children were forced to write with their right hand.<ref>А. П. Чуприков, В. Д. Мишиев. // Латеральность населения СССР в конце 70-х и начале 80-х годов. К истории латеральной нейропсихологии и нейропсихиатрии. Хрестоматия. Донецк, 2010, 192 с.</ref><ref name=autogenerated2>А. П. Чуприков, Е. А. Волков. // Мир леворуких. Киев. 2008.</ref>