I believe sign language should be apart of the curriculum because sign language is one of the only ways deaf people can communicate with others, lip reading can work but not everyone's lips are easy to read. We have to learn French and other languages but not sign language? It's most likely you are going to come across a deaf person who can't communicate with you in an easy way than a foreign person who can't speak at least some english (If they don't know full sentences 90% of them will know basics like toilet, help, food, water, way etc). If sign language is something we have to choose and learn but not French Spanish etc then what's the point of not doing both? I think sign language should be taught in younger years like reception - year 2 and then should be continued, and like French and Spanish, in secondary schools you can choose if you want to continue learning it or stop. Is primary schools you should be taught the basics like vowels then the alphabet, things like toilet, food, water etc and possibly a little harder stuff in year 5 or six then when you get to year 8 you can decide if you don't want to carry on, if you do then you can learn more difficult things like how to have full conversations. This isn't something I think is a bit of fun I genuinely care for the deaf community and believe sign language should be a subject just like everything else is. Personally it's also not that hard I've learnt almost the whole alphabet without much practice and just a picture to help me but then if I were to be taught by someone who knows sign language it could be a whole lot easier. I hope this gets somewhere and this makes a change.