leftie writes from bottom to top/right to left

I’ll weigh in on this, though I might be a non-CMish voice in this matter. I am a left-handed adult, whose writing was barely readable until I was an older teenager. This was not for lack of trying; I was and am a voracious longhand writer. Even when I was in elementary school, if given an assignment to write a paragraph about something, I would write pages. I suspect my teachers both dreaded and welcomed it; my creativity was boundless, my penmanship….yeah.  (And this was in the days before assignments were typed as they are now, even when I was in high school) I don’t blame any teaching method. I don’t know why my writing was so poor or why it improved to the state it’s in now, which is readable and even semi-attractive.

But I will say that what you’re describing with your daughter’s writing habits was and is me to a T, and this characterizes my left-handed friends, too. The page looks different when you’re using your left hand, and the strokes just feel better when reversed. The left-handed brain works differently than the right-handed one, I know it’s not the “right and proper” way to write and I was probably corrected repeatedly. Someone who has more knowledge and experience teaching writing will hopefully chime in here.  But if it were me, given all else you describe, I wouldn’t make it a hill to die on.

Do you mean right-to-left as in “love” becomes “evol” or, for example, she starts a capital A from the bottom right, goes up, then back down toward the left, instead of starting on the left?

If it’s the latter, my leftie does that. It used to drive me crazy, but then I realized, he’s doing what I do as a righty–starting further away and drawing the pencil toward the writing hand.