I had a good laugh at your post thinking it was rather clever humor and was about to write something witty back about left handed shot glasses, nunchucks, and corkscrews, but then I Googled "left handed desk" just in case and.. crap, you're not kidding! What horrible bloody desks kids are subjected to in your country!
Right handed ones have to hold their hand in the air over the parchment, or use quicker drying ink.
I'm left handed and I remember in school always having a gray color to the bottom of my hand from the pencil graphite.
Umm, given 20-30 people in a class, that comes out to 2-3 left handed desks...
In most classrooms, not a day goes by without the teacher requesting students rearrange their desks to work in groups together, and that's all it takes for the desks to be in a different order for the next class.
Even if left-handed desks never moved, there are no rules that left-handed desks are actually for left-handers only. As a classroom fills up, it's hard to tell which remaining desks are left-handed. It's also hard for right-handers to remember to look for the same, and end up sitting wherever they were about to, along with left-handers.
Left-handed desks are worthless when there are no policies about actually using them. And half-desks are worse than full-desks, anyway.
Three of the last four US presidents were left handed. Is that some kind of institutionalized discrimination against right-handed politicians?
The first and most obvious problem is created by right-handed desks, forcing us lefties to reach across our bodies to write with no support for our arm. Now, granted, there are usually one or two desks in a classroom for left-handers, but with 8-10% of the population being lefties, that leaves a shortage of left-handed desks in every classroom in America.
The fact that the English language is written from left to right creates an even bigger disadvantage for left-handers though, because it forces us to push the pen across the page. This is in stark contrast to all those righties who get to effortlessly drag the pen across the page while resting their arm on that comfortable right-hander desk of yours.
Fortunately for us lefties though, we're inherently smarter than our right handed counterparts:
http://isittrue.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=1319838...
Who's to argue with Einstein, Newton, Franklin and Picasso? :)