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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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To: Trump20162020

Hope they they don’t have to drive a car with an analog speedometer.


41 posted on 04/26/2018 8:00:43 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
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To: SkyDancer
I wonder in the future how you explain to them the 10 and 2 o’clock position of their hands on the steering wheel.

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.

42 posted on 04/26/2018 8:04:33 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: BlueLancer
Best rate of climb is -125 feet/min. Depending on altitude, air density, and weight. All you can do is control your inevitable return to the ground.

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. .

43 posted on 04/26/2018 8:04:40 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: BBQToadRibs

It’s just another way of de-emphasizing Western Civilization.


44 posted on 04/26/2018 8:04:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Being a paperboy teaches you everything you need to know in life. Really.


45 posted on 04/26/2018 8:07:04 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Jonty30

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.


46 posted on 04/26/2018 8:09:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Trump20162020

That should have failed them right from the start.


47 posted on 04/26/2018 8:10:44 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Do kids have paper routes anymore?

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.

48 posted on 04/26/2018 8:11:30 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: stylin19a

Not only unable to tell time, but unable to spell “analog” too.


49 posted on 04/26/2018 8:12:11 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: MissEdie

Digital clocks are so ubiquitous now that the analog clock may become the button hook of this century....................


50 posted on 04/26/2018 8:13:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: dfwgator

You mean right now? [Steven Wright]


51 posted on 04/26/2018 8:14:16 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

The article is from a publication in the UK, so they use BSE (British Standard English).


52 posted on 04/26/2018 8:14:28 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: stylin19a

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!


53 posted on 04/26/2018 8:15:35 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

My favorite Steven Wright joke:

“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘Breakfast At Any Time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”


54 posted on 04/26/2018 8:15:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Army Air Corps
Oh, that’s a bit cruel...but amusing.

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.

55 posted on 04/26/2018 8:16:55 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

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.


56 posted on 04/26/2018 8:17:14 AM PDT by arthurus (srs)
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To: Trump20162020

Kids don’t tie shoes any more. It’s mostly velcro and sippers now.


57 posted on 04/26/2018 8:18:29 AM PDT by arthurus (r)
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To: IYAS9YAS

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.


58 posted on 04/26/2018 8:23:36 AM PDT by arthurus (rt)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

Analogue, actually.


59 posted on 04/26/2018 8:24:44 AM PDT by arthurus (5p3)
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To: Trump20162020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons


60 posted on 04/26/2018 8:39:26 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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