Teacher who told 4-year-old that being left-handed was evil and sinister resigns

[Bettie]

6. My great-grandmother

was convinced that my being left handed was a serious problem. She tried over and over to switch the crayon or pencil to the other hand, but it never took and finally, my grandmother asked her to just stop.

She stopped and never mentioned it again, but I still remember being in Kindergarten and being afraid to color at home because Gramma would be waiting to pounce on my crayon-holding deficiencies.

And still, I miss that cranky old lady. She died when I was 13 at the age of 97 and was one of the few positives of a really sucky childhood, even with her somewhat eccentric ideas.