Children’s writing is dying. Here’s the proof

Children’s handwriting is now so bad that teenagers need lessons in high school, experts warn.

Handwriting is taught in primary schools, and children are expected to write cursive “legibly, fluently and with increasing speed” by the time they leave school at the age of 11.

However, there is an increasing use of screens in and outside the classroom blamed for the decline how often and how well children can write compared to previous generations.

Children are increasingly writing too fast to form the letters correctly and are struggling to write on lines in cursive, handwriting teachers say, telling The Telegraph.

The worsening situation has sparked calls for handwriting to be added to the secondary school curriculum as part of the government’s ongoing education review.

Robert Halfon, a former Tory education minister, said it was “absolutely essential” that handwriting be included in the curriculum for “children of all ages”.

“I am very much so protechnologybut good handwriting is one of the most important skills that children should learn in school,” he said.

“There shouldn’t even be a discussion about whether it should be part of the high school curriculum.

“Every student should have some form of education, otherwise we will end up with a semi-literate society where people only know how to use smartphones.”