Memes

I know someone said more or less the same thing when it was posted on Tumblr, but if the schools realize most of their students don't know a thing they should know... Shouldn't they teach it?

I know, it's just a meme, but... The article. It's about clocks during exams specifically, when students are under pressure and more likely to misread the time on an analogue clock.

If only there was a building children could attend where they do things like teach how clocks work

Sounds like divisive bullshit.

After all the millennial horseshit we had to hear in the 2010's and we're just gonna turn around and do the same shit, huh?

Alternate title: Students cannot tell the time because schools are removing analog clocks from the classroom

The only reason you need to know analog clocks nowadays is to solve all the analog clock puzzles in video games.

Kids can't even read a sundial nowadays, smh

My first thought was to be appalled at the lack of education on display.... But is there any real reason to keep analog clocks.. other than habit and nostalgia?

This has got to be rage bait like the litterbox thing right?

There's probably someplace kids could go to learn about analog clocks...

No one knows how to read a sextant any more. The horror!!

Analog clocks are not really essential technology.

DAE younger generation bad

Feels more like we should teach kids better rather than remove the clocks.

I've worked in 2 different schools in the IT department and 4 others as a volunteer lecturer (I got a name tag that said Technology Evangelist) I found that putting an analog clock on the screen saver of computers in the classroom was more likely to result in the clock actually being on time.

Too many clocks in classrooms are very old or even battery powered but neglected.

I don't think kids are dumb just they aren't getting a world that is properly maintained by competent people that care about their work and are adequately resourced to do the whole job.

Always feels like these articles (and headlines in particular) are made to stir up division on social media.

I heard they’re gonna remove schools because kids show up to them not knowing anything.

I don't believe this for a second. You can literally just look at it and intuitively understand. Not to mention part of the standard elementary school curriculum is how to read a clock.

Recommend we call Clockwise "cap" and Counterclockwise "no cap"

Shouldnt we blame the teachers for fsiling to teach kids how to read the clock?

Analog clocks are kind of annoying tbh. Sometimes you need that little extra energy you have to spend on wondering whether it is 11:37 or 11:38 already by carefully visually bisecting the circle section between 7 and 8.
Millimetres of white space keep you wondering about the nature of analogue vs digital, discrete vs continuous and measurement uncertainty while you have better things to do but cannot just give up on OCDing whether it is exactly 11:37:30 already or maybe it is 11:37:35? And boom in these seconds you were wondering it is already pointless because it is the past and now it is time to wonder if it is 11:38:15 or 11:38:30

Whereas for digital it is just:
oh it is 11:11 on 11.11.11, how cool, life’s good

Thus it is my opinion that analogue clocks are virgins whereas digital are chads

bruh I can read analogue clocks and I'm gen z. it's probably rage bait though, so who cares :/

Sounds like a fake article

Kids these days do absolutely still know how to read analog clocks.

Besides, they probably shouldn't put effort into that. Those things are close to useless nowadays. It's mostly a case of schools being conservative... but then, it's not that much of an effort, so there are more important things to care about.

If only they still taught how to read a sundial, but those damn new fangled analog clocks...

So many edgelords in the comments shit talking younger generations for learning different things.
Y'all sound like old farts crying about how schools stopped using slide rules and how modern music just isn't as good.

ITT: Big boomer energy.

So, schools aren't even capable of teaching students how to read clocks anymore?

Wife, for years, thought the "second hand" on a clock was called that because it was the "2nd" hand on the clock...which confused her. Took her over 30 years to realize it's the "seconds" hand because it counts seconds.