Posted on 03/14/2017 5:22:00 PM PDT by simpson96
OKLAHOMA CITY - They may miss that hour of sleep, but as we turn our clocks ahead, chances are kids won't be changing their watches.
That's because the vast majority don't have a watch.
A new study shows that only 1-in-10 Oklahoma City kids ages 6-12 own a watch. And only 1-in-5 know how to read it.
"Yeah, I was super surprised," said Caitlin Carnes, who works for the Boys & Girls Club at Santa Fe South Elementary. "When I was growing up that was something that we learned. I don't know if that makes me old or not."
Instead Friday, Carnes worked to teach kids in the after-school program how to read analog clocks, something even the kids will admit they struggle with.
"I think the exposure to technology, everyone's so used to seeing digital," Carnes said. "They all have cell phones and tablets so they don't have to look at a clock very often that's analog."
Children rotated through three stations in the gym, making their own clocks, solving time problems and reading analog clocks.
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I bet 5 out of 5 home schooled kids can.
The”Future of America” can’t read, can’t write and can’t reason. God save the Republic.
My local technical school reinstalled analog clocks because they were getting students who couldn’t tell the time by them.
I don’t get this nostalgia for the “good old days”. I don’t really engage people who pine on and on about what they miss about their childhood. I just keep quiet and let them keep making buggy whips or whatever they do.
I'm not so sure. I raised 3 homeschooled children who never stepped into a government school or preschool. The youngest (brilliant mathematically and majoring in computer graphics) tells me he is unable to read analog watches.
He's known to exaggerate and profess things he does not believe "for effect." I wonder...
I always liked watches and have a bunch but their day is probably ending before too long. Just about every kid has a cell phone and they all have the time.
Digital clocks are everywhere.
Years ago, it was reported that digital watches kept young people from being able to visualize time, because they didn’t know what a clock face looked like.
Lots of our tax money. Jus say’n.
“The”Future of America” can’t read, can’t write and can’t reason. God save the Republic”.
Did you see this?
NY Dropping Teacher Literacy Test Amid Claims Of Racism (High Percentage Of Blacks & Hispanics Fail)
It's not even that far back. I grew up in the 70s and 80s which was the tail-end of it; so when people talk about the good old days, they are talking about post-WWII.
It was a totally different mentality, the little things, like playing outside all day until the street-lights came on, playing with reckless abandon, riding bikes for miles.
That's what "the good old days" is really referring to.
Well, you say that now. In twenty years you'll be pissing and moaning, "These damned kids! In my day we were free to think and speak, and didn't have chips implanted in our heads so that every time we remembered how good it used to b' (bzzzzzt) ...what was I talking about?"
Santa Fe South is heavily Hispanico. Like completely.
I suppose this would depend on if their parents taught them, same for the non-home schooled kids.
I quit wearing watches 40 years ago when I started in construction.
Too many horror stories about ripped off limbs when catching jewelry on a machine while climbing down from them.
But I can still read the clock above my desk. It’s been on the same dead battery time for 3 years now, since I refuse to “spring forward” or “fall back”
Sun comes up, sun goes down. I work in between.
Analog clocks are like cursive... too old fashioned for some.
I remember that stupid “half past.” It really frustrated me when I was a little one.
I know what it means now, of course, but have never used it in a conversation in my life, except for the adolescent doggerel “half past a monkey’s...”
It was a totally different mentality, the little things, like playing outside all day until the street-lights came on, playing with reckless abandon, riding bikes for miles.
That's what "the good old days" is really referring to.
I don't get your point. I'm an X-er born before man walked on the moon. I played outside until the street lights came on. I rode a bike without a helmet. That doesn't mean I have to slavishly stick with the technology from 40-50 years ago.
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