OKEMAH, Okla. – Left-handed people are evil, according to one Oklahoma preschool teacher.

Parent Alisha Sands, 30, told KFOR she found her left-handed son Zayde struggling with his homework last week while trying to write with his right hand.

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“I just asked, ‘Is there anything his teachers ever asked about his hands?’ And he raises this one and says this one’s bad,” said Sands, who is also left handed.

“From picking things up to throwing things, to batting, to writing, to just coloring you’d do at home with him, he’s always, always used his left hand,” she said of the 4-year-old.

So Sands decided to send Zayde’s teacher at Oakes Elementary a little note, and the response was outrageous.

The teacher sent home a 2011 article from PediatricEducation.org titled “When Will I Know Which Hand She Will Use?”

According to the article:

In many western cultures, right-handedness was/is considered the “correct” or “right” hand to use, and left-handedness was unlucky or inauspicious. The word “sinister,” meaning left-sided, derives from various sources as early as the 15th century. There are numerous cultural examples of left-handedness being associated with the idea of wickedness. For example, the devil is often portrayed as left-handed, and people throw salt over their left shoulder to ward off the evil spirits that dwell there.

“It breaks my heart for him because someone actually believes that, believes my child is evil because he’s left handed, it’s crazy,” Sands said, according to KFOR.

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She apparently took the issue up with the district superintendent Tony Dean, but said the response was seriously lacking.

“There was no suspension of any kind,” Sands said, adding that she kept her son home from school Monday and is changing his teacher. “There was basically nothing done to this teacher. She told them she thought I needed literature on it.”

“I don’t feel like the school did what they were supposed to for him,” Sands said.

KFOR tried to get some answers about the situation from school officials, but that didn’t work out very well.

“NewsChannel 4 called the school and were told the superintendent was out Monday, so they transferred us to the principal at Oakes Elementary,” according to the site. “She said she’s aware of the situation and the district is investigating. She hung up before we could ask any questions.”

The district was a little more accommodating for the New York Daily News.

“The school is definitely looking into it,” Dean said Tuesday. “We take this very, very seriously. We are not just dismissing it.”

Sands said she plans to make sure of it by filing a formal complaint with the Oklahoma Board of Education.