A radical idea you've got there. Nobody's got time for that.
Posted on 05/04/2018 7:35:01 AM PDT by caww
“It is amazing the number of students I am coming across in year 10, 11 and in sixth form who do not know how to tell the time,” she began. “We live in a world where everything is digital. We are moving towards a digital age and they do not necessarily have analogue watches anymore and they have mobile phones with the time on.”
Teachers in the U.K. wrote about the situation on social media, with a “Mrs Keenan” tweeting that digital clocks had been installed in an exam hall. Another, Nicola Towle, wrote in a tweet, according to the BBC: “Our school has replaced the analogue clock with a digital one in the hall for exams because pupils couldn’t use it to tell the time.”
The situation isn’t only present in the U.K., though.
A 2017 survey in Oklahoma City found that only 1-in-10 children in the city between the ages of 6-12 owned a watch. Of that number, only 1-in-5 knew how to read the analog watches, according to KFOR.
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Throw in Roman numerals and the kids will be crying.
Books are next.................
Total Failure.
Send them back to previous grades.
The have too mush SJW crap in the curriculum to have time for that.
I don’t suppose that actually teaching them to read them ever crossed their minds...
A radical idea you've got there. Nobody's got time for that.
It literally takes less than when the fast hand makes one loop, to teach a kid to read a clock.
Most expensive designer watches are analog not digital, of course watches are more of an accessory statement than actually used for time. Same with decorative clocks for living room areas...all analog. I guess these kids are just dumb?
Now the kids will be buying Rolex’s and not knowing how to read them.
So will the UK demand all cars have digital gauges?
will Big Ben become digital? /s
You’d be surprised to learn that the majority of pupils prefer to remain ignorant.
It amazes me that the kids couldn’t be taught something as simple as this.
When I was a kid many clocks still had Roman Numerals-—so we were taught Roman numerals——simple.
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"...kids can’t tell time..."
They can’t hold pencils either, according to yet another Brit report.
Brits have too much time on their hands having all these studies to find this stuff out.
Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t really think it’s a big deal. How many of you would need a sextant to drive across the country? There are some technologies that will eventually fade away, and even though I LOVE my analog watches, there are bigger fish to fry than to fret over kids that can’t read analog clocks.
Pupils prefer to remain ignorant only insofar as society caters to ignorance.
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