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To say this is not a 6yr olds handwriting?

266 replies

ItsAHardKn0ckLife1 · 16/02/2022 06:33

news.sky.com/story/swindon-town-fc-search-for-fan-who-wrote-to-the-club-saying-he-could-not-afford-to-go-to-matches-12542987

This is surely an adult pretending to write like a child?

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Kerensa70 · 17/02/2022 19:28

As a Y2 teacher my instinct is this is an adult’s writing. Handwriting at this age varies greatly but the letter formation and even finger spaces I would suggest are not of a 6 year old child.

TallulahTumeric · 17/02/2022 19:33

Absolutely no way did a six year old write this.
My six and a half year old spends so long doing his leading lines and bollocks me when I don't do mine. It's drilled into them and due to this all their letters are very spaced out and not cramped up like this.

nannykatherine · 17/02/2022 19:53

My thoughts exactly !!!!!!!!

oakleaffy · 17/02/2022 20:06

Did the “Kid”come forwards??

NemoSurprise21 · 17/02/2022 20:18

I was a bookworm who loved writing, I am now a senior editor and have always written copiously.

I recently found a holiday diary started when I was 6.5 (!) and wrote until the age of 9.

At 6, my content was not as planned and logical as this, and my script was more untidy. I do not believe this was written by a child. If it was, a scheming adult is behind it.

NemoSurprise21 · 17/02/2022 20:19
  • 'which I wrote' LOL
Madamum18 · 17/02/2022 21:42

I hear what you’re saying but being in a room with 5/6 year olds everyday, this writing just doesn’t seem like something they would do. From the moment they reach reception they are taught cursive cursive so I find it hard to believe that not one single letter is cursive. Even our children with extra needs incorporate their cursive into their non-cursive writing.
Just my opinion of course, but this writing seems a little too good for a 6 1/2 year old.. Not to mention the fact they put 1/2 and that something else I wouldn’t say that age would do, but who knows.

I too have considerable experience of the age group. Not every school does cursive consistently so this varies for children at this age. I have seen 6 year olds do writing this good and equally seen considerably worse.

I think it is possible for it to be done by a 6 year old but as you say, who knows!¬

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 17/02/2022 22:37

This is why I hate all the schmaltz out there in the world where children and dogs are concerned.

I don't want to return to them working up chimneys, obviously, but the obsession with 'not letting them suffer' is getting too much and producing a generation of the super spoilt. It is also enabling people like this to take the piss.

Tam20779 · 17/02/2022 22:38

I’ve got a 6 1/2 yr old and at that age they still spell phonically. They don’t always use finger spaces so their words can be jumbled together. Their lettering also tends to be quite big. This is something my 6 1/2 yr old daughter write to me today:

To say this is not a 6yr olds handwriting?
GiftedFish · 17/02/2022 22:39

I thought the same thing. I don't believe it to be legitimate

Bluesparkled · 17/02/2022 22:40

I think an adult wrote it but I don’t think it would be too much of a stretch to think the 6yr old asked to send his bit of money and the adult was trying to support him and do it.

Londoncallingme · 17/02/2022 22:51

90% Adult!
Maybe the address was on the back of the envelope.

Mooloolabababy · 17/02/2022 22:56

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nanbread · 17/02/2022 22:56

Maybe Joe hates school dinners and mummy has to spend all her money on chicken wraps, fromage frais and hula hoops

Mooloolabababy · 17/02/2022 22:59

What I meant to say before my fat thumbs got in the way was:
That's the first thing I thought when I saw it! I work with 6 year olds and the spelling would be more phonetic, also, the letters are too neat and consistent.

C152 · 17/02/2022 23:01

Looks like a kid's writing to me.

CourtRand · 17/02/2022 23:08

Swear I read that about £9k has been raised for the kid on a CrowdFund site

Cotton55 · 17/02/2022 23:12

I agree OP. I've taught many, many 6 year olds and none of them wrote like that! Definitely an adult imo. I also agree with the PP who noticed the spelling of school. A 6 year old might have spelt it as skool or skol but not with the sch.
The question is why? With no return address?? Maybe it's simply that some people are odd as hell!

TigerLilyTail · 18/02/2022 00:09

Let's say some bloke did it as a stupid joke but now doesn't want to admit it it, then what will happen to the money? Does the person who started the page get it?

Lynz78 · 18/02/2022 07:27

Its a parent maybe after a freebie never hear a kid describe their age as 6 and a half. Writing is too well placed on the lines and spaced out kids would have different spaces there could be a return address that could be the part that has been ripped off the top for GDPR.

winnieanddaisy · 18/02/2022 07:36

Maybe a six year old dictated it to his 9 year old sister ?

Mollysocks · 18/02/2022 07:40

@CourtRand

Swear I read that about £9k has been raised for the kid on a CrowdFund site
Surely this is fraud?! Shock
winnieanddaisy · 18/02/2022 07:42

@Totalwasteofpaper the boy put the money in with the letter for their top player not for food . He also hasn't put a stamp for posting the letter , you can see that this is so on the envelope . I'm sure if an adult had sorted it they would have used a stamp ?

sofakingcool · 18/02/2022 08:37

@TigerLilyTail

Let's say some bloke did it as a stupid joke but now doesn't want to admit it it, then what will happen to the money? Does the person who started the page get it?
If that gets discovered I think the money gets handed back to the donators?
bigyellowTpot · 18/02/2022 10:02

yes I agree as a previous poster has said it's the 6 and a half bit that gets me too. children don't usually think to write their age on things I reckon an adult has definitely had some input in this. It probably is the child's writing as I've seen some children that have very good writing at this age but I reckon he's definitely been promted by an adult.