[GSWarrior]

I guess teaching kids how to read a clock is not a priority in schools. How hard could that be?

[blackdog]

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.

[Army Air Corps]

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.

[EinNYC]

You cannot imagine the shock and surprise I experienced the first time a student in a NYC public high school asked me what time it was. I pointed to a large clock on the wall behind me and said, "There's a clock. Why are you asking me?" They replied that they didn't know how to read time off that kind of clock.

Apparently their crappy "parent" didn't have time to teach them how to tell time. Or manners, for that matter.

[Ohioan]

“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,"

For that statement to be valid, and not misdirection, the comparison would have to be to the parents or grandparents of the students. There have been significant changes in school populations in British schools over the post World War II decades. But, then, modern Britain does not compare in any sense to the Britain that "ruled" the waves in the 19th Century.