ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Funny how the Americans look down on so many Middle Easterners as being a backwards, superstitious lot. They have their own Talibaptists.
This occurred in a public school in Oklahoma and the teacher has now resigned. The school district obviously didn't support what the teacher did and I'd fathom that this was just one in a long line of offenses because just this alone doesn't rise to the level of a termination offense.
It may not have been superstition but merely a well-intentioned attempt to guide a child to what some perceive as a less-difficult lifestyle choice of being right-handed.
If so then this teaches the teachers a lesson for trying to be helpful. Just do your job and don't try to care or else you might be called to account for it.