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?

Not read all the replies
But....
Have you ever seen a 6 year old with sellotape?
Those coins are stuck down too perfectly.

The locals aren't buying it, judging by the Swindon Advertiser's comments section:

www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19927383.boy-6-cant-afford-swindon-town-tickets-sends-touching-letter-26p-star-player/

The single line drawn around the coins is what tips me off. A 6 year old would have bulges and gaps all over the place!

I came on to defend the beauty of some 6yos writing from my experience teaching ks1, but yea...that's definitely staged.

Never mind his writing, I want to know what happens after the dinosaur eats the fern!

He eats a bush he doesn’t like, is chased by a huge “creatcure” with sharp teeth, escapes, finds a “crystl” clear lake but is annoyed by the sound of slurping Triceratops.

I kept it because the last page is sad - he realised he has “grown a bit since (I have “hached” out of (his) egg, can’t find his mum bit his happy about it in a weird way because now he can find food on his own and look forward to “baibes” of his own.

It’s neat and overall the spelling isn’t bad but all the mistakes are phonetic, it’s very careful and the letters are consistent.

nolongersurprised What a lovely story - definitely one to treasure!

Nearly 5k on the crowd funder

It does make me wonder about who started the fund raiser…

@OMG12

Of course it’s not a 6 year old. Some changer who knew it would get shared on social media. The parent will spot it, do a piece in the mail about how proud she is of her son, he doesn’t have much anc we struggle at times, Swindon Town is the only thing he loves passionately (apart from his little sister) were so proud of him managing to write that letter, stick it in an envelope, buy a stamp and put it in the post box. He’s always thinking of others, now give me that fucking invite to the owners box!

This. I dread to think how much they’ve raised already by this scam. No way was this old man’s writing done by a child.

The torn paper, but neatly taped coins?

Sorry, don’t believe a word of it being done by a child.

@Phenomenology

It does make me wonder about who started the fund raiser…

My goodness. What a payday. Surely this needs investigation?

@nolongersurprised

Never mind his writing, I want to know what happens after the dinosaur eats the fern!

He eats a bush he doesn’t like, is chased by a huge “creatcure” with sharp teeth, escapes, finds a “crystl” clear lake but is annoyed by the sound of slurping Triceratops.

I kept it because the last page is sad - he realised he has “grown a bit since (I have “hached” out of (his) egg, can’t find his mum bit his happy about it in a weird way because now he can find food on his own and look forward to “baibes” of his own.

It’s neat and overall the spelling isn’t bad but all the mistakes are phonetic, it’s very careful and the letters are consistent.

So happy to hear the end of this story! I absolutely love this ♥️

Totally agree

I thought the same. It's idiotic and embarrassing.

I am a year 1 teacher. I teach 5/6 year olds. I will tell you now every child in my class and above tries their HARDEST with their cursive letters. There’s no way a child that age
wrote this and didn’t put one cursive letter. It’s drilled into them from the moment they start school!

GFM is at £8382

I just hope claiming that money is subject to a handwriting identity test

@Morgeleven

I am a year 1 teacher. I teach 5/6 year olds. I will tell you now every child in my class and above tries their HARDEST with their cursive letters. There’s no way a child that age wrote this and didn’t put one cursive letter. It’s drilled into them from the moment they start school!

I'm with you! My dyslexic 8 year old can hardly write but even he does the loopy cursive stuff on his letters (such as they are).

Also, why is this boy's parent allowing him to send money to a footballer?

Any decent parent would explain that footballers get paid an obscene wage and don't need an extra 26p.

@SomeOwlsCoo

They "forget" the return address so no one notices its a begging letter. Instead it gets picked up by the media and everyone feels sorry for poor little Joe and his mum who can't afford to pay for his free school meals. Mum and Joe get free season tickets/a nice donation from the football club which obviously wasn't the reason they sent the letter.

Agreed!

I think it is perfectly possible that it is genuinely written by a 6 year old!1 Children don't learn in a linear fashion and children of that age may be "good at" one aspect of writing and not others

Nah, definitely not a 6.5yo's handwriting. Who knows whether it's genuinely from a 6yo!

who cares? no harm, no foul....

@Madamum18

I think it is perfectly possible that it is genuinely written by a 6 year old!1 Children don't learn in a linear fashion and children of that age may be "good at" one aspect of writing and not others

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.

If it was an adult on the make there'd be a name and address

I've worked in primary, in KS1. I call bullshit on that being from a six year old, or even an 8 year old as I think that "6" could be a deliberately bad or ambiguously fudged over 8. Small children can write nicely and 8 could account for paying for school dinners but not for the lack of any hint of cursive, the very regular spacing and the random misspellings that don't suggest use of phonics.

It just looks like an adult writing badly, it's too stylised. Either it's a total scam, STFC have done it themselves or someone older has done it for "Joe" and either purposely or deliberately made errors. I'm not convinced by the repetition of "I like Swindon", the super neat tape & line or the fact it was posted, stamp or not (another ploy). Even lack of return address suggests adult scheming tbh. Interesting that you can't see the important bit of the envelope in the pics.

I think it's badly disguised adult writing and an older man wrote it. Whether with or without a "Joe" I don't know.

*either unconsciously or deliberately, that should say.
Mrs TB aged 31 and 3/4.