K-5 homework.... 
Every one of my kids did the same thing at one time or another. I thought it was funny because like your granddaughter, it was a good paper, they just forgot to get it signed. Mom on the other hand was not as amused.
That's funny. When I was in the third grade my teacher sent our classwork home weekly for our parents to review. I never did poorly, in fact most, if not all of my assignments were A's and B's. For whatever reason I would occasionally forget to give the packet to my mother for review over the weekend. The packets were due on Monday mornings with the cover sheet signed by a parent showing that they had reviewed the work. Well, my mother had always signed these for me when I actually gave them to her. On those weekends I forgot, I chose to forge my stepfather's name to the packet so that I didn't get in trouble with the teacher. It was pretty smart thinking on my part being in third grade since I knew she didn't know what my stepfather's signature looked like because only my mother had ever signed them. Unfortunately I didn't get away with it for too long (about 8 times over the whole school year) before the teacher caught on. Apparently it helps to spell your stepfather's last name correctly when forging his signature. I am sure it didn't help that at that time you typically learned cursive in the third grade. You can imagine what the signature looked like.
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Please tell me she isn't homeschooled.
At least she spelled mom's name right. 😉
Maybe Mom did the entire assignment and then autographed it.
Back in the "olden" days the first thing I did after learning cursive writing in the second grade (in parochial prision) was to learn to accurately forge my Mothers signature. :-O
Note: Yes I got caught, about 10 times, sigh.
The paper does not specify that the checker is supposed to do the signing. It asks a specific question, which your 5 year old answered. Correctly. It's what 5 year olds do. Kudos to your granddaughter for getting every question right!
Mark Mayer, post: 357473, member: 424 wrote: The paper does not specify that the checker is supposed to do the signing. It asks a specific question, which your 5 year old answered. Correctly. It's what 5 year olds do. Kudos to your granddaughter for getting every question right!
Wow, good observation. She did the assignment, had mom check it, and filled out who the checker was. No violation @ all. If it had said "parent or gaurdian signature" that would have been a different matter.
Your granddaughter is very consistent in her numbers and only her 8s need little more practice. I was never good at an 8 in a single stroke and today make two circles.
I learned to write my name in cursive prior to attending kindergarten. For several years I consistently got in trouble for not writing my name in print. Then I had more problems because I did not write my P as per the Palmer Method.
Paul in PA
When my youngest son was in grammar school, we got a concerned notice from his teacher that he was not doing so well in his classes because he hadn't turned in any of his homework. None! My wife knew something wasn't right because she had seen him working on his homework numerous times throughout the semester.
A search of his backpack turned up all of his homework...completed, just not turned in. No real explanation as to why. Kids!!!
I know this isn't about faked signatures, but I thought it was an interesting story. Strange but interesting.
Mrs. Kittle was the supposed creator of the cursive style our school used. She may have been a nice lady but I cursed her routinely as I endured those tortuous times of attempting to follow her silly style.
Had to Google her. Turns out Miss Ruth Kittle was the penmanship supervisor for 25 years in the Topeka, Kansas schools. Poor woman must have had the dullest life of all time. Most frustrating as well.
Holy Cow, post: 357500, member: 50 wrote: Mrs. Kittle was the supposed creator of the cursive style our school used. She may have been a nice lady but I cursed her routinely as I endured those tortuous times of attempting to follow her silly style.
Had to Google her. Turns out Miss Ruth Kittle was the penmanship supervisor for 25 years in the Topeka, Kansas schools. Poor woman must have had the dullest life of all time. Most frustrating as well.
My nemesis was Miss Holcomb in the second grade. If anybody remembers the green cards that circled the classroom above the chalkboards:
Well, Miss Holcomb had a couple of these covered up with her own letters...because some of them were WRONG. She was OCD before they had a name for it. She also passed out pencils without erasers for penmanship tests. The proper correction is a strike-through (we all know that, don't we..). I've never known anybody that could get so upset over bad penmanship or even worse....a misspelled word!
I probably was the death of her. I was left-handed and there is no way to properly write cursive with your left hand on a wood desk that only has a right side. I kept my pencil squeezed up in my fist like a coyote hanging on to a dead field mouse.
..she rode my butt 'til I made it to the third grade.
My dad was a lefty til he got "converted" in grade school.
My mother was also Lefty going to catholic school many, many years ago, often told us children about when the Nuns would tie here left hand down, and make her write with the "right" hand. She was, from then on, ambidextrous.
ozzy84, post: 357532, member: 9840 wrote: My mother was also Lefty going to catholic school many, many years ago, often told us children about when the Nuns would tie here left hand down, and make her write with the "right" hand. She was, from then on, ambidextrous.
Seen as the work of the devil I think. Hence "sinister" from sinistra meaning left in Latin (and other languages).
Paden's green panels with the proper design of each letter appears to be in identical style with that of the Kittle Manual for Pensmanship. I recall seeing those panels somewhere in classrooms. Our little district was too poor to be able to afford fancy teaching aids such as that, though.
ozzy84, post: 357532, member: 9840 wrote: My mother was also Lefty going to catholic school many, many years ago, often told us children about when the Nuns would tie here left hand down, and make her write with the "right" hand. She was, from then on, ambidextrous.
Momma Cash was also left-handed. In school in the late twenties it apparently was also viewed as a something to discourage; they made her write with her right hand. Years later, when I had a 1st. grade teacher attempt to convince me to hold my pencil in my right hand, Momma Cash went to bat for me.
I don't know what she told her, but when they came out of the office Momma Cash told me to let her know "if they ever tried that again".
I wrote with whatever hand was closest to the pencil and Mrs Frost would swat my hands with her yardstick for doing so.
She called my parents in one day and said that I would have to do two sets of homework using each hand or decide on one from that point on.
I chose my left hand because the pencil was in my left hand when that was forced on me.
Did anybody really make an upper case "Q" that looked like a big "2"?
Absolutely!
