That's an interesting idea and piece of information to fit into my thinking, thank you. It implies make left-handers write with their right hand not being an educational policy so much as something individuals teachers felt important. Unless it was a fad in the 30s and 40s, I suppose?-
Individual teachers following their own convictions about what is important in spite of the National Curriculum is still the case for many of the "incidentals" of education - which (to my mind) is often what makes or break educational experiences rather than syllabi.
Still under the half century's influence of my mother's belief that this was a Catholic nun thing, I wonder if it was more prevalent in Catholic schools or prevalent for longer there, but this wouldn't be easy to extrapolate from anecdata (fascinating though the latter is).
Re: Religion
Individual teachers following their own convictions about what is important in spite of the National Curriculum is still the case for many of the "incidentals" of education - which (to my mind) is often what makes or break educational experiences rather than syllabi.
Still under the half century's influence of my mother's belief that this was a Catholic nun thing, I wonder if it was more prevalent in Catholic schools or prevalent for longer there, but this wouldn't be easy to extrapolate from anecdata (fascinating though the latter is).