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?

@MarshaBradyo

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

Also at 6 1/2 they're year 2 and still qualify for automatic free school lunches. They're buying a snack for play time at most.

Even if it was an adult writing it doesn't mean it isn't real.

Might just be a child dictating to an adult.

I think it's a PR stunt personally

@helloisitmeyourelookingfor

Yeah, there's no way a 6 year old wrote that

I disagree, my 6 year old could not write like that but my 6 year old niece could. She has amazing handwriting. Not all children are the same.

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

And got "doesnt" in the right order. Those spelling mistakes aren't the spelling mistakes of a 6 year old.

@wildseas

I'm probably a cynic but I would think that the adult who wrote this probably works in Swindon Town's marketing department. . . .

Yes, I came here to say this!

Might just be a child dictating to an adult

Then why the spelling errors -“schol”

@nolongersurprised

Might just be a child dictating to an adult

Then why the spelling errors -“schol”

...because not every adult has perfect spelling?

That's an adult writing with their off hand - look at how the letters are formed, like they have a style of writing, but with poor control (it's what mine looks like when I write left handed)

A kid of that age (I've had 2) forms them as they've been taught, things like the size of the circle in the 'e's will be wrong and things, not consistent, but scruffy.

My six year old writes like he’s downed a few pints and put some boxing gloves on, plus the odd easy spelling being wrong but trickier ones being correct.

Complete scam, and not an original one at that.

Yes, there will be a 6 year old somewhere, but this whole scenario has been created by the parent , and the letter written by the parent/parents.

Social media is full of this. The most common ones are a girl playing a boys sport and getting ' bullied' , so the parent does a social media post saying how proud they are of them. Cue offers of kits, days out etc from brands and organisations looking to raise their community profile. See also a slightly overweight child playing sport, a boy doing drama..that kind of thing.

Kids with signs asking for players shirts at sporting events also gets my spider senses tingling..I think a lot go straight on ebay, and it's a practice encouraged by parents again.

Over £1,100 already raised, offers of free groceries and free match tickets and the sender has not even been identified yet. (Swindon Advertiser)

You can tell by the inconsistency in the letter 'y'. The author slips up and reverts to their own way of writing it.

my 6 year old niece could. She has amazing handwriting. Not all children are the same. it isn't about saying all six year olds are awful writers, but I suspect both your son and niece have consistent letter shaping, dots the i's, etc.

I can’t believe people are donating to this.
It’s obviously either a weirdo or a scam.

@Nomicron

I can’t believe people are donating to this. It’s obviously either a weirdo or a scam.

It's a pretty shit scam if so, given no contact details have been provided.

And then Mom will appear, slightly embarrassed at being outed by her friends who only did it because she's the best Mom ever and regularly goes without eating to feed poor DS etc, and she'll gratefully accept it all. Then it'll come out that Dad is on the scene, kid gets free school lunches because he's year 2 and they went abroad last summer.

And yet there’s a Twitter hunt to find ‘little Joe’ and the go fund me is at over a grand.

It's a pretty shit scam if so, given no contact details have been provided. give it time, you need to build the anticipation...

Yep, and gives time for all the armchair cynics to feel all smug and superior too.

Maybe it is a scam, maybe it isn't. You don't know.

@UsernameIsNotAvailableRightNow

Before they hand anything over they should get the 6 year old to write the letter again once the parent comes forward

My thoughts exactly!

It's Prince Andrew. Changed his name.

Seriously, unless he's at a private school, surely free school meals.

@Nomicron

And yet there’s a Twitter hunt to find ‘little Joe’ and the go fund me is at over a grand.

Haha!! What is it they say about fools and their money? 🤣

Here's another dead give-away: the right-formatted sign-off "Joe aged..."
Each spelling "mistake" could be real, but the style is an adult's. Says me.

If it's legit I'm slightly jealous. Can't persuade my 11 year old to use punctuation