@jeffowski Apparently the middle ages lasted until at least 1983 in CofE primary schools.

When I started learning to write it was 'You're holding it in the wrong hand' and being called 'wicked' whenever I was caught using my left 'because it's easier', and then 'Well what hand do you write with?' for everything else, then for the whole of the rest of my compulsory education every teacher constantly complained about my handwriting, which was so bad I failed all my GCSE and A-Level coursework, while 'it would be unfair to the other students' if I was allowed to use a computer (then a couple of years later the younger sister of one of my classmates gets to use a laptop in class, because she has dyspraxia).

A pox on the Church of England for that alone, never mind the cPTSD and social anxiety they gave me by encouraging my family and carers to emotionally and psychologically (and peers physically) abuse me into the closet for 40 miserable, lonely years.