Schools are removing clocks from exam halls as teens 'cannot tell time' - Sensationalist Headlines

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I greatly prefer reading digital clocks, and it probably takes me slightly longer than it should to check an analogue clock because I'm just so used to digital, but god damn I can't imagine not actually being able to read an analogue clock at all. Can't they just explain it to them rather than removing the clocks? It's not hard and should only take a few minutes for them to get the hang of it.

I just can't get analogue, even when its explained like it was on page 1, i can't get it I look at it someone explains what time it is I look at it again and i've lost it Digital is the only way i can tell the time and i know others who are similar. Theres no point in trying to force people to learn analogue when digital isn't "worse"

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its using the second hand i'm not good at

A lot of clocks don't have second hands, but on the ones that do, 12 is the 0 position and it runs clockwise around counting up to 59 before ticking over to 0 again, at which point the minute hand will be on the next incremented line. It's not meant for an instant read of the seconds, just to give you an idea of how long you've got until the next minute.

I learned how to read an analog clock in elementary school as well and I am not much older than these teenagers are, so what I don't understand is why these high school kids don't know how to read them. How does a school district fail to teach children something so basic as how to tell time? Taking down analog clocks in schools and replacing them with digital ones will only add to the problem, not fix it.

Youre a little off there.

Oh yeah, typo. I should have double checked before posting that

I can't read analogue clocks, personally, but I also have dyscalculia and huge issues seeing straight lines thanks to my astigmatism, which means it's really hard for me to see where the watch hands are pointing, anyway. As I type this and look at the borders between posts, they're bent to me, even though I know they're a straight line.

But school is not for learning

I had it down pat by six, and I'm hardly a prodigy or anything. Analog clocks are not difficult to read, people are just too damn lazy to teach it these days.

Every clock I own, digital or not, has batteries in it.

In the US it isn't. the only time its common here is with military time.

I must be in the minority then. I like the aesthetics of digital watches over analog watches.

Yeah but this has more to do with the specifics of the english/german etc. language. "Quarter past", "half past" and "quarter to" is a bit less intuitive than for example how we say these (quarter, half, three quarters), and this is something that non native speakers also struggle a bit in my experience. Knowing how to drive stick is a country specific thing, here its absolutely essential, in the US perhaps not so much. As for rotary phones, well you'll likely never use one, but it takes like 10 seconds to grasp their operation so...

It's sad to see them go but lets be real here. Analogue clocks , especially cheap school ones are very prone to mechanical failure making them run too slow which requires tedious upkeep that really isn't an issue with digital clocks. The thing about handwriting is really depressing though, handwritten notes stick so much better than typed ones.

I mean, I learned how to write in cursive and I never used it except for writing my name. Stuff is gonna become obsolete as we progress. I mean sure you should probably know how to read analogue, but at the same time if everyone is phasing them out is it really that important? Like with cursive, that shit is hard as fuck for me to read. Printing words is much more efficient and less time consuming in my opinion. Same with digital clocks.

I wear a analogue watch nearly every day and can read it fine, but when someone asked me for the time on the bus today I looked at it and had a moment of "what?" and then had to look at my phone to get the time. Have no idea what happened

Employer: So it says here you're a Harvard graduate? Man: Yes, sir. I got my Bachelor's in Telling Time. Employer: Welcome aboard

Honestly this seems like a good idea, I can read an analog clock fine and dandy but I am just the worst at telling exact time from them I can ball park by a minute or two but in a test scenario I could see problems with it.

the dumb part is the most versitile note taking system is the Bic Pen and Paper Notebook (other pens are availible as well) and try doing math without paper... its a fault of the ciriculum if kids aren't being given enough opportunity to take paper notes. One of the skills I think schools do an aboslutely terrible job at is note taking, like I took lab classes where everything was done on a composition notebook, and then took a lab where a professor was old school and did just that, but the other students from other schools weren't used to that at all and just were awful at it, but there's some huge benefits to digesting the material, writing your own outline, taking detailed notes, and I use those skills every day at work where I'm finding myself looking back on work I did months ago for exact details because somebody came back to me with questions.

wow I thought I was retarded for not learning how to tell the time from an analogue watch until I was like 14. Most of my peers learned it in kindergarten but I just didn't pay attention during that class and felt too embarrassed to admit it later so I just pretended I could read a watch for years.

If you can't tell time you are dumb. End of story. TBF my brother didn't know the order of the months till he was 18.

I hope that tablets + pens catch on more in schools. I have a 2 in 1 that I take handwritten notes on, holds all my textbooks, and it has literally replaced literally every single other thing in my bag except for a mechanical pencil that I use exclusively for tests.

I'm surprised people have memories about learning to read the time, as far as I'm aware I've always known. Obviously I was taught at some point but it must have been before I was 4-5 before I have any solid memories.

Even though the whole thing was drilled into my skull for several years, I'm still really bad at reading analogue clocks. Sure I can get a very rough estimate of what time it is at a glance, but to get the exact time down to the correct minute, I have to stare at it and count the bars til I hit the one the minute hand is closest to. Then again, I also still have to count on my fingers for basic addition and subtraction, and lose track instantly if so much of a breeze tickling my face disrupts my focus by the most minuscule amount. I swear I'm not stupid. I passed all my HS grad tests a full year before I was supposed to graduate naturally with flying colors, except for algebra of which I only passed by one meager point. Numbers just do not play well with my brain.

I still don't know the months intuitively. I have to think about it. I've got January, February, March, April, May, June, and July memorized. But after July, I have to remember them in this way: "Okay, so September would be month 7, Sept = 7, but Julius and Augustus Caesar were dicks and named months after themselves. July is Julius, which means next is August for Augustus. Ergo, August is after July, and then it's September, October (Octo = 8), November (Nov = 9), and finally December (Deca = 10)."

Is this more common then I think??

Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I am extremely number-oriented. And so the fact that December is not month 10 throws me for a loop, if I don't think about it. That's why all of the months before August I have memorized, their names don't have an numeric correlation to me. But September onward do have numeric correlations, and so if I don't stop and think about it, I'll just blindly think "Decimal December" and say December is the 10th month. Which isn't right.