Children’s handwriting is now so bad that teenagers need lessons in secondary school, experts have warned.
Handwriting is taught in primary schools, with children expected to write in cursive “legibly, fluently and with increasing speed” by the time they leave at the age of 11.
But the increasing use of screens in and outside of the classroom has been blamed for a decline in how often and how well children can write compared to previous generations.
Children increasingly write too quickly to form letters correctly and struggle to write on the lines in cursive, handwriting tutors told The Telegraph.
The deterioration has fuelled calls for handwriting to be added to the secondary school curriculum as part of the government’s ongoing education review.
Robert Halfon, the Tory former education minister, said it was “absolutely essential” that handwriting be made part of the curriculum for “children of all ages”.
“I am very pro-technology, but good handwriting is one of the most important skills children should learn in school,” he said.
“There shouldn’t even be a discussion about whether it should be part of the secondary school curriculum.
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