Out of Left Field
What’s wrong with this desk? If you are quickly finding room for ascetic improvements, back up a minute. I’m asking a simpler question: If you need to take a test and you walk into a classroom full of these desks, are you going to pull out your #2 pencil or are you going to tell the instructor you have a problem? Roughly ten percent of us are going to ask for a different desk – the one in the picture does not work with our neurology. No worries, right? Left-handedness is no big deal. Schools usually have accommodations for Lefties – many desks are universal these days. Sure, we’re going to leave the test with a big smear of lead across the side of our hands, but no one is going to point at us, stare at us or whisper about our neuro-differences. But that wasn’t always the case. It was not so long ago that Lefties were treated severely by educators and even parents until they “learned” to use the “correct” hand. My grandmother w...