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British schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time'
The Telegraph ^
| April 24, 2018
| Camilla Turner
Posted on 04/26/2018 7:36:23 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020
To: Trump20162020
dripping with irony ?
Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:38:53 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: Trump20162020
Even the schools have a fundamental misunderstanding of what ‘school’ means.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:39:05 AM PDT
by
relictele
To: Trump20162020
I guess teaching kids how to read a clock is not a priority in schools. How hard could that be?
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:40:03 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: Trump20162020
I first ran into this in 2005 when my 16 year old daughter had a friend over at our home. She was crying because she could not determine the time on her own?
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:40:07 AM PDT
by
blackdog
To: Trump20162020
Losers. Takes 30 seconds to learn how to read a clock.
The Paki population still hasn’t mastered the sundial yet. Or basic human hygiene for that matter.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:40:25 AM PDT
by
mindburglar
(I have an above average brain stem)
To: Trump20162020
My local technical school removed the digital clocks because they found too many kids unable to read an analog clock.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:40:29 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Trump20162020
Times change. I bet most can’t use a slide rule, either...
To: Trump20162020
You’re a school Teach them
To: ClearCase_guy
I saw this first hand, as it were, with my son-in-law’s niece from Ohio.
She was 15 years old and could not tell time on an analog clock..........................
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:41:42 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
To: Trump20162020
Problem: Students can’t read analog clocks.
Solution: Remove analog clocks.
Pure genius.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:41:54 AM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
To: stylin19a; relictele
My homeschool boys could read an an analogue (circular-faced) clock at age 6.
Tell me, do these British A-level scholars even know what "clockwise" means?
Sounds like British education is as good as British healthcare. Just ask Alfie Evans.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:42:13 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts." - Sgt. Joe Friday)
To: GSWarrior
The time is the same for the students of all genders in every bathroom. That is what matters. Not the ability to read a clock or a rotary phone.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:42:25 AM PDT
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blackdog
To: GSWarrior
I know that it seems like “Olden Days” to these kids, but I started Grammar School in the 1970s. By the time that I was in First Grade, I learned how to tell time. It isn’t that blasted difficult, kiddies.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:42:41 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Funny movie.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:43:09 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Trump20162020
So is Big Ben going to be converted to digital?
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:43:48 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: Army Air Corps
Well the good news is when the EMP strike takes out all digital clocks, it will become the proverbial “Lord of the Flies.”
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:44:44 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
When I was in school, telling time was taught in 2nd grade. It doesn’t seem like it would take more than an hour to teach a teen or an adult to read a clock.
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:45:56 AM PDT
by
Kipp
To: RightGeek
So is Big Ben going to be converted to digital? "My gay cousin went to England and he was so disappointed. He found out that Big Ben was a clock." - Rodney Dangerfield
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posted on
04/26/2018 7:46:05 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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