Firstly my mother was left handed, and when she went to scool she was made to use her right hand, if she did not she was smacked ( you are going back 60 years), she can now right with both hands and her speech is perfect, and she has no other problems either.
I too am left handed, however i only write and use kitchen knives in my left hand, if i have to chuck a ball, brush my hair, play darts anything like that its done with my right are
My daughter is left-handed and started Kindergarten this year. It didn't even occur to me to tell the teacher she's left-handed. Making them switch seemed like something that came out of hte dark ages and I didn't think her teacher would make an issue of it. So far it's not a problem.
IMHO it doesn't sound like the teacher was actually trying to change your child from left to right. If you couldn't tell from the coloring and writing, it is possible that your child, like my sister, is ambidextrous (sorry if it's spelled wrong) or maybe she has not yet developed a solid dominance. A lot of young children switch from their left hand to their right hand for quite a long time. From your last post it sounded like the teacher was willing to encourage the left handedness and didn't have an agenda to have her students all right handed. You might want to check and make sure her school is either providing the kids with little Friskar scissors or that left handed scissors are available to her, because cutting is what is more difficult for left handed people than the writing is.
I had to chime in because - well, I have to chime in whenever we're talking lefty.
I am the ONLY lefty in my family. I remember my parents telling me that they were concerned and asked my kindergarten and she was adament about not trying to switch me. I do everything with my left hand, but use scissors - I cut with my right, even though my parents always used to buy me left-handed scissors.
Anyway, I would like to mention one other thing. Lefties are more prone to have dxylesia and transpose numbers. I don't have dxylesia, but I do transpose numbers more often than what is normal (I remember do it all the time when I worked as a cashier.). Anway, it's not a big deal and being a lefty DEFINITELY DOES NOT mean you are going to do either.
Also, lefties do tend to be more creative than righties 
MANY actors, artists and others in the creative field are lefties.
Okay, I'll get off my lefties speech.
Did I mention that I'm a PROUD LEFTY?
I'm a proud lefty too!!!! I could never get those darn left handed scissors to work for me......can only cut right handed using regular scissors! I tend to do a lot of things with my right hand. I too am the only lefty in my immediate family - however I have uncles (on both sides) and many friends that are left handed. It seemed as though a lot of my high-school teachers and college professors were as well. Fortunately, it doesn't seem as though I am dyslexic or prone to transposing numbers as ccr03 mentioned.
~Chelle
I haven't read all the responses, but I have two girls. One is right handed, as are hubby and I; the younger is left handed. I would be having a 'chat' with her teacher if they tried to make her use her right hand!! 
My mom was naturally left handed, but continuously smacked with a ruler if the teacher saw her not using her right hand. Luckily Mom doesn't have resultant issues from that, but learning handicrafts was quite a challenge for her. In order to teach my daughter to knit, I taught myself left-handed knitting first -- it wasn't easy for me, but much easier to teach her!
When I went to Catholic school, they would hit me with a ruler if I was using my Right hand. I learned to write with my right hand eventually. But as I got older, I realized that I do things that people who are Left handed do. Like my desk, it's set up for someone who is left handed. But it makes perfect sense to me. Even decorating cakes. Doing something like a basket weave, I was going the opposite way everyone else was.
I think I would say something to the teacher. It was horrible having my hand slapped in front of the class. And being pointed out as "different" from the other kids. It's hard enough to be a kid.
My younger cousin was changed from being a lefty to a righty as a child because his father thought there was a stigma attached to it. My cousin has struggled with his speech, reading comprehension and learning. He's also ADD, and I think a lot of this stems from the "change." And he's at a point where he gets very upset very easily. I think this has just had a huge impact on his behavior. I even remember when he was learning to skateboard and he couldn't "get it" until I told him to try from the other side of the board. Then his body was in a natural position. It's almost as if the two sides of his brain are fighting each other.
As a former teacher...
I am right handed and it ireally can be hard to teach left handed children how to write. What I used to do - sit across from the left handed child. That way they have a mirror image to copy. Also, I used to have my left-handed sister come in to work specifically with my lefties.
I also was a lefty and was forced to write with my right. As I went further along in school it became second nature to me to start writing with my left again. So now I can do both. It does drive DH crazy when I get bored with one hand I will switch to the other. The only atvantge is when I broke my hand it was easy to just switch over to the other hand the only problem I had was my bank refused to cash a check I wrote because the hand writting did not match. I had to come into the bank and show them that my hand was broken.
Wow I can't believe schools have forced right handedness in the past like that! Well my oldest son is a lefty. He uses his left for everything, except batting. Teachers have always been very helpful once they knew he was left handed with moving him to the outside, etc.
I honestly didn't think teachers "had the nerve" to do this anymore- This is a HOT topic 
for me personally, allow me to explain. 
In 1979- yes I said 1979, my kindergarted teacher "forced" me to write with my right hand, eventhough I was born a lefty... well, I soon developed a studder and severe shyness (a previously outgoing child). 
While my grades were above average, I couldn't read outloud without HUGE difficulty. I could read, just not aloud.) I only recently reversed that damage! Also, have mild number dislexia (transposing, etc).
- I can still do most things with my left hand, even write backwards, but use my right hand to write legibly.
I know not all visual artist are lefties, but I am totally right-brained and forcing me to write with my right hand had consequences.
- When my daughter was born, my husband's granmother noticed my daughter is a lefty wanted us to "switch her". NO way!
I understand if someone has an injury, etc - learning to adapt to the other hand would be necessary. BUT why is it so important for everyone to be the same?
This is just my experience, and I didn't mean to offend anyone- like I said, I'm very passionate about this subject. Thanks for hearing me out.
I don't know if people realise but you're not just right or left handed. You're also right or left legged as well. This can affect things like riding a bike or scooter, (which leg you push off with) so if your child has trouble learning these skills encourage them to try with the other leg.
My daughter is four, and she is clearly left handed. From the very beginning she favored her left hand. This isn't surprising. Her dad, both grandfathers, uncle (my brother) and numerous other members of our families are lefties.
If I found out someone was trying to force her to write with her right hand, I'd be absolutely livid. I see no stigma, I see someone who naturally uses left instead of right. Who cares which hand she writes with? But we're homeschooling so far, so it's not an issue at this point. No one in our family finds a problem with it. She's learning to write her letters just fine.
My son shows no preference yet. But if he's a lefty too, that's just fine.
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