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.
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Hope they they don’t have to drive a car with an analog speedometer.
It's even more confusing these days, as they recommend using the 9 and 3 positions if you have an airbag in the steering wheel. They also recommend not wrapping your thumbs around the wheel (I learned this racing go-karts). In the even of an accident, the wheel could jerk and break your thumbs.
Another thing you can do if a collision is inevitable, is remove your hands from the wheel completely. Steer until it doesn't matter, then let go.
Best check ride ever. The most interesting and challenging one was in a Super Cub on floats. Most the damn ride is sailing on the water. .
It’s just another way of de-emphasizing Western Civilization.
Being a paperboy teaches you everything you need to know in life. Really.
My 85 year-old aunt can’t read an analog or a digital. It was one of the signs of dementia. She can’t make change or read a clock or figure out what day it is. But she can still drive.
That should have failed them right from the start.
Not that I've seen.
I was kind of lucky. The paper I worked for required you to be 12, but Mom knew someone there, and asked them to let me try it out at age 10.
At 12, I had two routes.
The paper I worked for was afternoon only, Monday through Saturday, with no Sunday delivery.
About 2 years in, they changed from a Saturday afternoon delivery, to a Sunday morning delivery, with all other days remaining afternoon.
We kids delivering papers loved it because it freed up our Saturday afternoons.
Not only unable to tell time, but unable to spell “analog” too.
Digital clocks are so ubiquitous now that the analog clock may become the button hook of this century....................
You mean right now? [Steven Wright]
The article is from a publication in the UK, so they use BSE (British Standard English).
Irony is lost on these people. Its a school, right? Teach them how to read a freaking clock. Better yet, teach them how to read a book!
My favorite Steven Wright joke:
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘Breakfast At Any Time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”
They get it when they finally punch in the numbers and it tells them what to give me back.
I tell them I do it because I don't want pennies, but really I do it because I like to watch their reactions.
At the church I used to attend the doughnuts in the parish hall were sold by teenagers. There was a cash box, no register and the kids always had a hard time making change. I taught all of them how to count change. Some thought it was like magic. Some thought I must be really smart to know that. It is so easy to teach that, even to low IQ type. But it is like the ubiquity of calculators, I guess, the adults who already know how to reason and calculate don’t think young people need to learn any of that stuff because digits do it all for them, until the power goes out or the calculator is left some place. It all goes into producing generations of quasi-adults who can neither reason or calculate but depend entirely on outside sources to tell them what to think, or rather, what to accept because their think faculty is severely atrophied from lack of exercise.
Kids don’t tie shoes any more. It’s mostly velcro and sippers now.
I saw in my K-5 Blazer mirror that a rear ender was inevitable. Without thinking about it I took my foot off the brake and used up all that momentum, my side of it, rolling forward. The two boys in the Nissan mini pickup left two spiderwebs in their windshield and left some scratches on my bumper. I used the K-5 to pull their truck with the front end crushed off the street.
Analogue, actually.
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