Motor skills (secondary)

One of my YEAR 11s told me that she can’t tie her own tie and gets her dad to do it every morning. A lot of the kids walk around with their laces untied because they can’t tie them and god forbid you do a sticking and gluing exercise, it’ll take the full lesson and most of the paper will look like it’s just been ripped carelessly. A lot of my year 7 and 8s handwriting is illegible and they can’t hold a pen properly. This can’t be normal and it never used to be like this 5,6 years ago. Is it because the parents can’t be bothered to teach them? Lack of occupational therapy in early years? I don’t know but I seriously feel bad on these kids and the fact they’ve went this long without intervention is incredibly sad.