That apart, though, I've never heard lefthandedness referred to in a derogatory way at school, either as a pupil or as an adult. If anything, I can still remember the sting, aged nine, when our left-handed design teacher (who had had her left hand tied behind her back at school) sneeringly remarked that only left handed people were creative. It actually took me years to get over that one.
I had the same issue, though due to a premature birth fine motor control problem, and I simply typed my exams, or at least the ones with essay questions. For the high school ones that generally meant being sent to some teacher's office with a typewriter for the allotted time. In college it was most often a case of 'here's the exam, take three hours and drop it off in the box'.
The honour system actually worked. When I taught English in Poland after college, I was shocked by the amount of cheating, and even more at the way in which the students saw it as a normal thing (I was ordered to pretend I didn't speak Polish, so the students spoke freely in front of me, safe in the knowledge that I couldn't understand them. Heh. They were a little surprised at my uncanny ability to detect cheating. I also had the best knowledge of the school gossip, bar none - I knew exactly who was taking which drugs, having what spat, and sleeping with whom - it was sort of fun.)
I was told of a meeting situation in NY in which 3 Nokia guys agreed that the brutal tactics of the other side required drastic action and that they should close up their briefcases in synch and walk out. They got what they wanted as a result. You can't be me, I'm taken
