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The West's decline continues: Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time' (archive.ph)
posted 2 years ago by Lurker404 2 years ago by Lurker404 +59 / -0
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– MargarineMongoose 44 points 2 years ago +44 / -0

Teach them. That's the entire function of a school.

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– Smith1980 28 points 2 years ago +28 / -0

How dare you have unrealistic expectations

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– MargarineMongoose 18 points 2 years ago +18 / -0

I suppose you're right, it would be more reasonable to just expel the animals from the facility rather than try to teach them alongside the handful of humans still attending.

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– Smith1980 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

I was being silly since there are those that are appalled by the idea of saying students must learn something.

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– MargarineMongoose 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

I know. I'm just so tired of watching my society burn to the ground when it's so preventable.

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– Smith1980 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Agreed. I remember my grandfather in the 90s talking about that. He passed away in 2011. He was right about a lot

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– FutaCumDiet 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

Nothing is stopping the parents from teaching their kids, but that requires parents to get off their ass.

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– deleted 34 points 2 years ago +34 / -0
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– ArchRespawnsAgain 17 points 2 years ago +17 / -0

Make it say, "chirp chirp motherfucker."

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– -Fender- 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Yes. They should learn to deal with it.

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– Lurker404 [S] 23 points 2 years ago +23 / -0

Always remember kids:

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance Diversity is strength.

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– nuggetpatrol 20 points 2 years ago +20 / -0

So ... teach them.

I mean, has such a thing like teaching a child to learn something ever been tried before in school?

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– JustHereForTheSalmon 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

Come on, 70K a year for 8 months work just isn't enough money for that!

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– Smith1980 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

I mean they taught us in elementary school. Sure digital clocks are easier but analog aren’t hard to figure out

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– ajfofjakf 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

I don't want to be this guy but analog clocks are easier to process, once you know how to read them. You are looking at a what is essentially a picture so you can gauge the time with just a quick glance. With a digital clock you have to read it and process it like text.

Anecdotally, every one of my first aid and CPR trainers have worn analog watches. They never said that's why they wear them but I've found when trying to do something like count and monitor time, it's easier to have a clear visual indicator to measure time.

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– Assassin47 14 points 2 years ago +14 / -0

Guess I'll be this guy when it comes to analog clocks. I was sadly one of the slow kids in class when it came to learning to read time. It took me years to be able to read the hands "on sight." I'm perfectly fine at it now but there is still a slight hesitation in mentally decoding the picture of a clock to time. Especially if it's one of those clocks with no numbers. On the other hand I've never felt like I had to "read and process" a digital clock.

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– TriangleGang 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

I love analog watches and I understand mechanically why it has to be this way, but I still sometimes catch myself reading the wrong hour in the last 5 or so minutes because the hour hand is literally pointing at the next hour at that point.

I must not be alone, because "jump hour" watches exist; where they always point directly at the correct hour until the minute hand hits 60 and then they jump to the next hour marker.

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– ajfofjakf 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

lol I guess there is more to it. I've heard that analog clocks are easier to read more than a few times and that has been the case for me, personally. I don't know what to think now.

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– Smith1980 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

No arguments from me. I guess I was speaking from the perspective of when I was a kid. At the time even though I knew how to tell time I still preferred digital but now analogue clocks are instantaneous for me

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– acp_k2win 14 points 2 years ago +14 / -0

the alarm on my newer phone says "stop" instead of "dismiss"

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– FutaCumDiet 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

>5 year old article

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– Vivs3rdSock 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

Oh the irony.

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– SuurSuomi39_II 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

Sounds to me like a bunch of retarded useless teenagers.

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– OldBullLee 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

I always assumed parents taught their kids how to tell time, along with tying their own shoes and brushing their own teeth.

Have contemporary parents abdicated these lovingly practical lessons?

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– TriangleGang 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

Imagine if they had to deal with a 24 hour clock analog clock

The Glycine Airman has entered the chat.

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