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The morons here are the teachers.

People don't know what they dont know and haven't been taught. We have been relying on this idea that each next generation just has what the previous generation knows. It isn't a practice thing it is a we haven't prepared the new for what the world has to offer.

We do this everywhere and blame the uneducated and point and laugh. Fuck that.
I can't wait for the students to learn and be proud when they do.

Uh... No. The teachers are not stunned. They teach those kids every day. It's you the reader who may or may not be surprised.

What a dumb take by the teachers. So what if they can't read some old tech - just teach them? Are the students also incredibly dumb so they can't learn it in 10 minutes? Seems like that would be bigger issue here.

I'm assuming dementia tests, if there is such a thing in the future, will probably have to swap out that question, anyway....

I've been hearing this since I was a kid, though back then they just blamed the use of digital clocks instead of phones.

Next they’ll be surprised to find that they don’t know long division, cursive writing or 6502 assembly language

i hate this shit, ofc they don't know, who was planning to teach them? certainly not the fucking schools imposing this shit.

“Numerous students”

Gotta love that completely nebulous and undefined number. It also sounds like a non-zero number simply have to be instructed to read the clock in order to understand it. Could be like 20 kids out of a school of 400. Oh noes the education system has completely failed!

If only there was a place they could learn that.

Others have tried to evade the spirit of the ban, using other digital devices sich as older iPods, or bringing walkie-talkies to school.

I'm not an advocate of smartphone bans, but necessity is the mother of invention, and I suppose that if some kids start cobbling together packet radio solutions to talk with their friends and reach the Internet, it'll probably be an educational experience.

It's not that stunning, they didn't grow up with them and you don't really see them in public these days.

'Old clocks'? You mean... analog clocks? The ones in practically every household outside of America?

When I grew up we looked at the height of the pile in the hourglass and we liked it! The rich kids all had sundial wristwatches though.

Some might call this a "teachable moment ", no?

It’s almost like you gotta teach people how to do things, that people aren’t just inherently born with all the knowledge to survive. Crazy I know.

I am 20 and I still remember newspapers and TV talking about "teenagers these days can't read clocks" since I can remember. it seems nobody has ever known 

There's an interesting technology connections video on how analog clocks can be easier to parse how "far" through the hour/day you are with just a quick glance. Hand almost at the top means the hours almost up, for instance.

This is so silly. Kids can't read an analog clock? Teach them. This isn't personal finance or cursive writing, you can teach them to read a clock in an afternoon.

Kids today are too stupid to intuit things their parents had to be shown. Shocking.

They still teach analog clocks in kindergarten or 1st grade. All my kids learned.

Why are you stunned? Most kids today are raising themselves. If it’s not a skill you teach in school, it’s not like they are learning it somewhere else.

Good thing they are in that place where all the professional teacher are.

Gen-Xer here - do they not teach kids this in kindergarten or 1st grade or w/e anymore?

Lol and whose fault is that?

I used to get this as a kid, this would have been about 1990 when I was 6 and at no point did anybody realise IT WAS BECAUSE NO-ONE TAUGHT ME, after that my mom spent an evening explaining it to me and after that I was fine. This is why I hate those videos where they give kids retro tech and laugh at them for not knowing how to use them, despite never being shown them before.

"Old clocks"?

Those are just clocks

It takes just a few minutes to learn how to read an analog clock. Once you've got the idea, you'll be slow deciphering the time at first, but once you start doing it, very quickly you'll be reading it immediately with just a glance.

I see analog clocks all over the place, especially waiting rooms and public buildings, and I have a very nice pretty one in my house. I think the people saying they're not being used anymore just aren't noticing them, they're just background scenery to them and don't enter their consciousness.