Even the schools have a fundamental misunderstanding of what ‘school’ means.
I guess teaching kids how to read a clock is not a priority in schools. How hard could that be?
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?
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.
My local technical school removed the digital clocks because they found too many kids unable to read an analog clock.
Times change. I bet most can’t use a slide rule, either...
You’re a school Teach them
Problem: Students can’t read analog clocks.
Solution: Remove analog clocks.
Pure genius.
So is Big Ben going to be converted to digital?
By the time I was six, I was changing my own diaper.
So, teach the young clods about the big hand and the little hand.
My 7 year old grandson can tell time with an analog clock.
The big hand is on the “6”, and the little hand is between the “10” and the “11”.
Does anybody really know what time it is?
My students can’t do it either. I used to try to teach them, but they were uninterested in learning and actively resisted it. Like cursive (I tried to teach them that too.) Since I’m supposed to be teaching 9th grade literature, I eventually gave up, and stuck to what I’m supposed to be teaching them, but I hope their parents get what’s coming to them.
I wonder in the future how you explain to them the 10 and 2 o’clock position of their hands on the steering wheel.
One should be able to teach a school kid to tell time within two to five minutes depending on aptitude.
Put it up in Arabic
Sadly, out college straight A engineering son couldn’t read my analogue clock with roman numerals in my home office. It took 10 minutes to teach him roman numerals 1 through XII, the analog face number positions, the three hands and how to read them, drill him down, and test him.
10 minutes. School doesn’t do this anymore.