• Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yes. Because school admins and teachers regularly compare signatures of documents with other previously signed documents.

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      11 months ago

      My school used enrollment forms to compare the signature. Vice principals had little to do with their time but punish kids.

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        Which is why I learned how for forge both parents signatures by the time I was out of 2nd grade. One missed field trip because my parents couldn’t be bothered to sign the form was enough.

        Started out tracing them on a thin sheet of paper. Took about a months until I could do it easily freehand. I had the best mimic out of all of my siblings and would often sign their’s as well.

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          My sister could do my Dad’s really well and my parents would tell her to do both our forms because they couldn’t be bothered

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        Missed a field trip and got a couple detentions for doing just this.

        It was for practice forms… for band. I was the first chair trombone, I didn’t practice, my parents didn’t care.

        Now, I should have been practicing, but that’s another point.

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    11 months ago

    Hey funny story related to this. My father died when i was six. (Not the funny part). In high school i started signing early dismissal letters with my own name and the school never questioned it.

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      Possibly, they noticed and were good enough people that realized it’s not the end of the world.

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      11 months ago

      Wish I thought about that before I learned dark necromancy to reanimate my father’s corpse so he could sign my field trip forms.

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    11 months ago

    I definitely did this throughout high school. My dad once asked why they don’t do report cards anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    In our house, the policy was I (mom) used my real signature, kids forged their dad’s signature when needed. So, my signature was mine but his signature was always forged.

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    11 months ago

    Because teachers can’t tell a first grader’s attempt at a signature from an adult’s.

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      11 months ago

      This says high school, but honestly probably not as long as they don’t try too hard. My signiture is some squiggles with a line and dot thrown in. A first grader might actually try though, then it could be suspicious.