To say this is not a 6yr olds handwriting?

[ItsAHardKn0ckLife1]

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?

@Stressedout1009

I'm a bit surprised at the responses. Does you mean that the writing style looks mature/adult or those words could not have been written by a 6yo? Is it the cursive that makes it look faked or what? I'm genuinely asking because my 5.5yo can write this letter, easily and neater and I'm genuine. They have done joining letters grammar, would know Simon Town needed to be in capitals, etc. Is it the wording that people are questioning or the actual words?

But if you look at words like “any” it’s the sloppy letter formation and join that seems to me to me like a PP said to indicate years of writing. Btw would love to see an example of your 5 year old’s writing to compare.

I find it a little sad that Prince Harry has had to resort to write a begging letter to a football club to try and get something for free when he has been paid millions of dollars by Netflix.

Also, he is definitely older than 6 1/2.

@ItsAHardKn0ckLife1
Twitter is full of people offering money and goodies for this adult who wrote this.

Definitely not written by a 6 year old.

I was all ready to open it and say "some 6 year olds are surprisingly good at writing, with good handwriting and have a good handle on local affairs". However, that isn't cursive, that's an old way of writing, that is purposefully been written badly. If he can use his phonics, with that much understanding, he would have written other words wrong and not missed the long "oo" in school.
I only ready it quickly, but those are my first thoughts. Top marks for trying though!

[quote oakleaffy]@ItsAHardKn0ckLife1
Twitter is full of people offering money and goodies for this adult who wrote this.[/quote]
Maybe someone needs to point out that 6 year olds don't pay for their school meals

As others have said, very soon the surprised mum will pop up and say how proud she is of her 6 year old. Shortly after that the GoFundMe page will appear.

Nice try but it just doesn't seem quite right.

someone on twitter says it reads 8 1/2

Whether it's real or fake something that made me sad was the response. So many people offering tickets, to take Joe to see a match, there's even a crowd funder started.
But significantly less offering to buy the family food, no-one opening a crowdfunder for food banks.
Seems like not getting to see a match really touched so many hearts, but not having money for food barely registered.

100% an adult. The letter formations are all wrong, and inconsistent. The mistakes are deliberate and not ones that a 6 year old would make. Look at some of the letters like the capital H at the end, the small k etc. You need a high degree of pen control to make those lines, same for the y and gs. Clearly ab adult who probably doesn’t even have a six year old. Tbh I agree with the person who said it was old fashioned writing, this is more of a grandparents age person writing. And agree, a child would never write aged. And they don’t have to pay for school meals.

This person doesn’t even have a child who is 6 in my cynical opinion.

I saw the story last night and straight away thought, begging letter, written or dictated by a parent, no address in the hope of this happening and it going viral on social media. 🙄

It may well be someone identifying as a 6 year old.

Highly suspicious of this letter. Stinks of a chancer trying to get some freebies. Awful

Yeah it's just not is it? Anyone who works with children knows that's just not how their writing develops. It is almost instantly recognisable as an adult's handwriting, someone whose style has evolved since they were taught to write at school (but pretending to do it badly).

Yanbu the choice of what is said is off

The writing is on the line - not many 6yo can do that.
The writing isn't bloody awful cursive which is how kids are taught.
If they were spelling school wrong, wouldn't it be skool? to get the "sch" right and miss out an "o"... and to get "because" wrong, but "dinner" right?
Do kids aged 6 and a half know how to do fractions??

Nice try Joe, but I think you're nearer 65 than 6.5 🤦‍♀️

It looks to me like it has been written quickly by someone with years of writing practice.
Do private preps still pay for school dinners?

I think the handwriting, spelling etc may be fine. My 5.5yo DS regularly sends letters to his granny in care and they are extremely neat and well formed. His spelling is fairly good too. He has an obsession with sticking stuff on them to send her so ours often have sellotaped 'presents' on the bottom.
However the issue with school dinner payments and the logistics of a stamp, envelope, address make me think it's got the hand of an adult involved.
My DS does go and find envelopes but wouldn't be able to get a stamp and post it by himself not in a form that would get anywhere.

But there has to be a 6 year old in the mix somewhere for this to 'work' as a begging letter - otherwise it will fall apart when they are found.

Surely if it had been orchestrated by an adult they'd at least have included a surname if not an address?

Plus the school dinner is a news item an adult would remember not that a child would focus on

@PinchOfVom

Completely agree!

Can’t spell “school” but you know to capitalise Swindon Town? 😂😂😂😂😂

That’s exactly what I was thinking!!

My guess is Harry wrote it, everyone knows he is Swindons top striker now.

I can't comment on the veracity of the letter. Having taught in many schools I can assure you that many 6 year olds and 16 year olds can not read, write or spell school.

wouldn't be able to get a stamp

It isn't stamped - if you look at the envelope there's a yellow 'to pay' sticker on it.

@musicalfrog

It may well be someone identifying as a 6 year old.

Boom 💥! Superb 😂😂😂😂