It took me until age 15 to become comfortable reading analog clocks and confident knowing which way is left and right.

Hey cut me some slack, left/right gets confusing sometimes because of mirrors & facing people).

But I think learning how to tell time on an analog clock is an important skill because it broadens the mind regarding mechanics & mathematics, thereby developing more synapses in our brains & logic & mental computational skills.

First: Some UK teachers exchanged the analogue with digital clocks. This was only to reduce interruptions by some students (during a specific kind of UK exams), who had trouble determining the remaining time in the heat of the exam battle.

Secondly: The use of analogue clocks is taught at UK schools. What's missing is the practice that former generations of pupils had. No more wristwatches, public clocks all but gone, and (what I am nostalgically missing from my youth) no more peeking onto parked car's dashboards to read the analogue clock there. Times have changed, and this specific partially lost ability is not the schools' fault. (Not to say that other things aren't...)

Can we please bury that stupid old meme, as it has been based on some inaccurate buzz and largely giving a completely inaccurate impression of the topic from the start...

Snopes article about this from 2018 stating it’s mostly false.

I had to check the community to verify I accidentally opened c/fakeconservativememes.

It was a relief when I realized this wasn't c/Lemmy Shitpost.

It's definetrly because they don't want to teach this thing that takes like 10 minutes to explain and not because recalibrating every daylight savings hour one by one is a hassle.

Imagine falling for this boomer rage bait when half the details are obviously and clearly censored.

What was scribbled out of this screenshot with black lines, and why was it scribbled out?

It’s only happened twice, but I’ve run into kids who couldn’t read an analog clock. You know what I did?

I taught them. It took, like, 30 seconds. I know it took 30 seconds because I was wearing a goddamn watch.

I think removing everything that kids have a bit of a hard time trying to grasp just teaches kids to give up if anything isn't immediately apparent. Its not as much of a waste of time as cursive, and it's to be taught to think in another way.

I think that kids "learning how to learn" is really important, especially with how these AI models are stunting like a whole generation of people.

This is minor, but I also think less things need electronic displays/components that are hard to recycle and increase dependency on exploiting X country for Y resource. Its also cool to just be able to build a physical mechanism which digital clocks have no real feasible option to do

This has got to be AI written or cherry picked data. They’re pulling clocks to save a few $ if anything. Old schools used to have synchronized analog systems. I could easily see those things being removed.

Next schools will start removing textbooks because students cannot read. They will replace with audio books.

Ive tried to teach my students (High School) how to read an analog clock. Keep in mind, I dont have time to teach a whole class on it, just a little lesson on how now and then when they ask what time it is. They can read it for the class, but the next day theyve forgotten how completely.

Its not because theyre stupid or lazy. Its because they rarely get practice with it. We know how to read an analog clock because, yes we were taught it in school, but they were everywhere so we essentially had practice with it all the time. These kids see digital clocks 99% of the time. So when do they ever apply their knowledge?

The only students who can read the clock are the handful who have analog watches for fashion reasons because they use it all the time.

Its a matter of practice but in truth these kids dont really have to read an analog clock in the modern world.