To say this is not a 6yr olds handwriting?

[ItsAHardKn0ckLife1]

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

@Cattitudes
Just to clarify I wouldn't have said we had no money for food but I might have said that although that Barbie Princess Dreamhouse monstrosity might be lovely to have for 5 mins and that Arabella might have three of them unfortunately we don't have the same money as Arabella and we need to pay for food, clothes and swimming lessons.

You sound like my mum circa 1985 when I wanted a sindy house!🤣🤣

The weird thing is, it doesn’t even seem to be written by the parent of a 6 year old. They would know that 6 year olds spell phonetically and get free school meals.

I work with 6 year olds. The handwriting itself is not unusual, there are neater examples in my class. The only spelling mistake being schol is unusual. Getting sch correct but not ool when it sounds like oo is not a common one. You tend to see more phonetically plausible mistakes such as ‘carnt’ . Children that age get free school meals .

I do know a couple of children (not mine!!) who wrote like that at age six.

I imagine if writing to his idol the boy would have been incredibly careful with the letters

It is possible its real, who knows? But certainly not impossible

A 6 year old would write their last name.

Everyone is referred to with a last name at that age.

Its not the handwriting thats the give away. Its the good spelling, even with the fake spelling mistakes.

The fact that they manage to get the words on the line and as a previous poster said - can't be seen from space.

Then there's the free school dinner for key stage 1 thing going on.

100% fake.

But its good publicity for Swindon Town even if they know its fake...

Now we get to watch every major club invite little Joe to their games in VIP seats, one will give his parents a car, he’ll get lifetime season tickets, have a stand named after him at Swindon Town FC where seat 26 will be copper colour with his name engraved.

He’ll be a mascot for the next World Cup and probably win a Pride of Britain award, Gary Lineker will shed a tear for brave little Joe who it’ll turn out looks after his elderly Nan and 5 month old sister on weekends whilst his mum works in the mill for her second job.

Just watch.

Definitely a swizz, down to the pitiful carefully torn edge of the paper.

Possibly the work of a journalist or someone at the club.

I have a just turned 6 year old. The way the letters sit perfectly on the line and are the exact same size and exact spacing does not suggest it's a 6 year olds. My 6 year old is pretty neat but she will still have some wild sized spaces and letters where she can't quite control the pencil. My 6 year old would also need to be told what to write, so even if (unlikely) they had written it out I doubt they composed it. Someone is after a freeby/attention on social media and it isn't the 6 year old.

What @Thewiseoneincognito said

I think it’s more upsetting that either way the 6 and a half year old knows that his mum can’t afford food 😢

@MrsLargeEmbodied

someone on twitter says it reads 8 1/2

I also read it as 8 and a half.

It doesn't really change the writing format that much but would explain the dinner money quote.

It definitely looks like an adult wrote it, however, I used to teach Y2 and asked a parent why they had been doing their child's homework for them. They hadn't, the child just had super grown up looking handwriting. His handwriting when at school was more rushed and untidy.

I also once asked a child to stop forging reading record comments. He hadn't been. His mum just had similar handwriting to most 7 year olds in my class.

Those were early on in my career. I have stopped judging people's handwriting.

I thought it looked like a 7 changed to a 6?

(Although I'm not sure why you'd amend the age?)

Oh Harry have you been writing yourself notes ...

I don't know. I knew a couple of kids who wrote unbelievably neatly at school. My six year old writes very neatly but no letter joining or anything.
I'm disappointed because I was hoping that a mumsnetter might have posted a picture of perfect calligraphy accompanied with "YABU. This is DD6 handwriting. She wrote better than that boy at two and her handwriting is not even considered particularly remarkable at her school"

I think dc can write neatly but it’s usually rounded and childlike as pp - which looked very neat for a 6 year old but you’d know it was a child

Also to write there’s no money due to school dinners means that is the most memorable cost to a 6 year old which I highly doubt - more likely remembered from news by an adult

100000% fake.

Would a 6 year old know how to write "doesnt" (even with the apostrophe). Seems odd that a child who can't spell school or because does know the correct spelling of doesn't.

Sorry, meant to say even WITHOUT the apostrophe, not with.

100% a wierdo pretending to be a kid to make a point

Looks like an adult writing with their left hand.

It looks like it was written using their left hand - if right handed or right hand - if left handed.

@ItsAHardKn0ckLife1

I think both *@Stressedout1009*

Amongst other things, the way the letters are formed aren’t consistent with how they’re taught in school imo. Also, the spelling mistakes seem “deliberate” to me.

I thought this about the letters. DS is 6 1/2 (doesn't like football, not us) and he'd never miss a dot on an i and he HATES writing. There's a d that has no tail, just doesn't look like how a yr2 would even consider constructing it.

So presumably someone looking for a freebie for them and their kid, either genuinely skint and feels shit they can't take son, or trying it on.

Hope son has good acting skills for the TV interview. Mine would totally rat me out.

Teacher here. Extremely unlikely that a 6yo wrote that.
The point at which they start reducing the sizing of their letters would mean they would also be joining up in a cursive style (taught in all schools these days). And if they weren't joining yet, they would/should be using approach strokes and so forth.