Show the writing dammit!

I'd like to know if the judges knew. It makes more sense to me for a Penmanship award to be blind...only get to see the Penmanship.

Strange, I wonder why I literally never heard or saw any of this when I was a kid. I had no idea back then that there were penmanship awards!

Anyway, when I looked it up it looked like it happened from grenade 1-8, at least in the United States. As to the girl in the video she is amazing; there are some Google images of her with what she wrote, but all the ones I found were so blurry you couldn't make anything out (or I would've posted/linked it). It also looked like at least one other kid (a boy) without hands had won before too!

I was, and I still am extremely good at penmanship. It makes me wonder why I never was involved in it. I'm actually a fairly good artist and I won awards as a kid, it's literally my artistry that gives me my great penmanship, as they walk hand-in-hand!

Although, I'll be the first to admit that I can't do Caligraphy or Spencerian types of writing at all--perhaps Caligraphy if I spent time on it, but that won't happen. My manuscript has literally been compared to, "...a printed copy!", so I was proud of my artistry when I used it the most. I could easily draw a realistic human hand, for an example. Enough of my glory hogging!

That girl is amazing, I REALLY wanted to see the range of expression she was able to commit to paper without two hands. She won so it must look amazing for a girl of her age, which makes me want to see it EVEN more! Damn them! How can you not show THAT are you an idiot journalist!?

If someone finds a gallery link or another video make sure to throw it up in here. I'm going to see if I can find a gallery, if I do I'll edit and tag it on to the end...

Edit-As you can see it was far more than one page for the first grader it was a packet, this is as close up basically as you can get to that image, so here it is (oh well, you can't see the thumb, but it goes to the picture correctly--I did flip the picture so you could read it far easier, plus a few other picture tricks, like making it bigger, sharper,etc...):


<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/kceaton2/th_annieclark-nohand-penmanship.jpg" border="0" alt="Annie Clark - Penmenship Award (First Grader; with/no hands), Annie Clark, with no hands, has won the hearts and minds of people as she won her Penmanship Award!" >

that is some god-aweful reporting. for fuck sakes, show the writing!!!

>> ^kceaton1:

grenade 1-8, at least in the United States.


I never had grenade class, I got robbed.

The first screen says the award is for "special needs" children. This might mean the award is only given out to children with no hands.

That would explain why you weren't involved, @kceaton1, unless you have no hands.

>> ^Porksandwich:

>> ^kceaton1:
grenade 1-8, at least in the United States.

I never had grenade class, I got robbed.


She obviously failed it.

Wow, I think I'll make a sock puppet account and downvote myself.