Obtaining a pen licence is a rite of passage for many Aussie primary school students around year three or four to officially transition from writing with a pencil to a pen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m an Australian living in America and today I found out that Americans don’t get their pen licence when they’re a kid,\u201d G Flip said in a TikTok video.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, in Australia, when you’re eight or nine, you do a test to deem if you are ready to upgrade from a pencil to a pen.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’ve got to make sure it’s all legible and your letters look great and then your teacher will grade you … and you will then get a certificate that says you can now use your pen, you’ve got your pen licence.<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently, Americans, y’all don’t get a pen licence and you’re out here using pencils until you’re in your teens. That’s a lot of sharpening!\u201d<\/p>\n
The video has amassed over 1.5 million views in a few days, with comments divided between nostalgic Aussies and baffled Americans.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an American growing up I just used pens anytime we don’t need permission to use them wth lol,\u201d one stateside fan wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cA pen license? Girl, we were signing yearbooks in gel ink with no adult supervision. This ain\u2019t the DMV,\u201d another American wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has to be a lie,\u201d a third American wrote.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, many nostalgic Aussies recalled their memories of earning their pen licence.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAs a primary school teacher, I can\u2019t tell you the joy it gives me to give a student their pen licence,\u201d one Aussie fan wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone else left-handed and have their pen licence taken off them when they smudged the ink across the page?\u201d another reflected.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo pen licences is crazy. How do you know you are safe and ready to use a pen without one?\u201d a third wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"G Flip has shocked their American fans after sharing the “bizarre” school tradition from Australia of pen licenses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,26686,101,4050],"class_list":{"0":"post-53044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-g-flip","13":"tag-tiktok","14":"tag-viral"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}