Klarinet Archive - Posting 000950.txt from 2003/06

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Left, Right or mixed handed?
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 05:54:03 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christy Erickson [mailto:perickso@-----.net]

> Intelligent, empathetic and understanding people don't
> make these
> unreasonable types of demands of people with differences or
> handicaps. They
> do make accomodations, and if I may remind you, this is required
> by the law
> in this country. This is the reason for handicapped
> accessibility to public
> and many private buildings, for example. Using your reasoning, one might
> expect that those in wheelchairs simply stand up and walk up a flight of
> stairs and into a building since that's what the majority do. The
> insistence that a left-handed person learn to conduct a beat pattern with
> their right-hand is an unreasonable demand for a teacher to make. I never
> thought about this before but my guess is that this would be a demand that
> could feasibly be challenged in court under IDEA if a conducting teacher
> were to insist that a student conduct the beat pattern with the right-hand
> and it could certainly be challenged if the teacher were to give
> the student
> a lower grade due to the inability to meet this "requirement."

Better be careful. You're making left-handedness sound like a handicap. ;-)

Karl

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