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That’s hand writing looks suspiciously like an adult’s. Who’s using an opposite hand to write based on the angling of the a’s and d.
That's a child who has been taught to put tails on letters in preparation for writing them joined up.
Exactly this. My youngest (now 12) was taught letters in exactly this shape. It's called "pre-cursive", and is intended to ease the transition into writing joined up.
I thought they stopped teaching cursive years ago
I wish. Cursive is an absolute antipattern that only makes handwriting more difficult to read. There is a massive drop in legibility once children start to write joined up when compared to the year before.
I realise that it was a solution to the problems that old dip ink pens posed, but now everyone uses biros there's really no need.
I realise things move slowly (I'm in my forties and had to use fountain pens for schoolwork, ballpoints were banned), but cursive is truly a relic of a bygone age, kept alive only by government mandate.
EDIT: I've just checked to see if it was still the case and it turns out that this year the UK government has released a revised Writing Framework. There is no longer a requirement for teaching cursive in primary school, and it actively advises teaching using pre-cursive letter forms.
Since their nephew is now 12, they were taught that years ago.
Did you know that 15 years ago is also considered "years ago"?
But left handed kids don't exist, either.