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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

Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.

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.

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices.

“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” he told The Telegraph.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: analog; analogclock; analogclocks; analogue; analogueclock; analogueclocks; britain; clock; clocks; generationz; genz; publiceducation; publicschools; time; uk; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 04/26/2018 7:36:23 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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2 posted on 04/26/2018 7:38:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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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.
3 posted on 04/26/2018 7:38:53 AM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Trump20162020

Even the schools have a fundamental misunderstanding of what ‘school’ means.


4 posted on 04/26/2018 7:39:05 AM PDT by relictele
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I guess teaching kids how to read a clock is not a priority in schools. How hard could that be?


5 posted on 04/26/2018 7:40:03 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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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?


6 posted on 04/26/2018 7:40:07 AM PDT by blackdog
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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.


7 posted on 04/26/2018 7:40:25 AM PDT by mindburglar (I have an above average brain stem)
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To: Trump20162020

My local technical school removed the digital clocks because they found too many kids unable to read an analog clock.


8 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.)
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Times change. I bet most can’t use a slide rule, either...


9 posted on 04/26/2018 7:40:44 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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You’re a school Teach them


10 posted on 04/26/2018 7:41:07 AM PDT by butlerweave
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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..........................


11 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.)
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To: Trump20162020

Problem: Students can’t read analog clocks.
Solution: Remove analog clocks.

Pure genius.


12 posted on 04/26/2018 7:41:54 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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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.

13 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)
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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.


14 posted on 04/26/2018 7:42:25 AM PDT by blackdog
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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.


15 posted on 04/26/2018 7:42:41 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Funny movie.

16 posted on 04/26/2018 7:43:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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So is Big Ben going to be converted to digital?


17 posted on 04/26/2018 7:43:48 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Well the good news is when the EMP strike takes out all digital clocks, it will become the proverbial “Lord of the Flies.”


18 posted on 04/26/2018 7:44:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.


19 posted on 04/26/2018 7:45:56 AM PDT by Kipp
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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

20 posted on 04/26/2018 7:46:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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