Some UK schools changing to analog clocks because some students can't tell the time

[britporn_mike]

Is this a failure of schools teaching kids how to tell the time or just dumb kids.

Some schools in the United Kingdom are ditching analog clocks because students reportedly can’t tell time.

Teachers have replaced analog clocks in testing halls with digital ones after students “complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analog clock” while they were taking high-level tests, The Telegraph reported.

“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and a former headmaster, told The Telegraph.

School officials would instead prefer students focus solely on the exam rather than worry about how much time is left because they have trouble reading an analog clock.

Trobe said that “one hopes that we will be teaching youngsters to read clocks." And ideally, students should be able to read analog clocks by the time they reach secondary school, The Telegraph noted.

But that is often not the reality, partly thanks to present-day technology.

“They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer,” Trobe said. “Nearly everything they’ve got is digital, so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere.”

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/05 ... -time.html

[TheButcher]

I am not at all surprised, heck I know a guy who is close to my age and when he see's say 15.30 hours he says what time is that. I mean how hard is it to subtract 12 from a number. I tell him 3.30pm then he gets it.

[saucyadele]

I use my iPhone for so many things, I even stopped wearing a watch lately. My phone is always in my pocket.

[BraSSballs]

Who even buys those old style clocks now

[jag]

In a way it is just old technology being dispensed with for new, so it's not as bad a sign of times as it first appears to be.

[Absolute]

Kids, these is why China is gonna rule the world in a few more decades.

[TheButcher]

In a way it is just old technology being dispensed with for new, so it's not as bad a sign of times as it first appears to be.

Being able to look at a clock or watch with hands on it and tell what time is would make sense to me

[gspotman]

it's easier than having to teach kids how to read a round clock

[Sneaky]

Oh jesus

[bill]

[calista]

Honestly those clocks are redundant now a days so it is quite a logical change

[greatpornlinks]

Millennials are not the smartest apples in the barrel to begin with

[bill]

so is cursive handwriting going next?

[yobilinks]

You have to be fucking me