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which new york teacher was stunned because i have questions
Right, find me one. Teachers everywhere said kids can't read analog clocks long before cellphone bans.
I learned to read an analog clock in elementary school. If schools aren't teaching it anymore idk why they're shocked that kids don't know how.
Bet they can't dial a rotary phone or hitch a horse to a wagon either.
You should see them with a kerosene lamp.
This is dishonest, because unlike horses and kerosene lamps, analog clocks are in every (european) town, on the churches, matkets, train stations etc..
I taught my gen-z kid to read an analog clock because I knew no one else would. I know he learned it.
He's 27 now, and living back at home. Recently, we were in the kitchen and the cat was asking to be fed. He said, "I don't think it's time yet..." and then went to his room to check the time on his phone. The same analog clock he learned to read is on the wall in the kitchen, where it's been his entire life. Apparently, he didn't practice at all after I taught him and tested him on it, and now can't read it? I dunno, I didn't ask, I didn't want to make a whole thing out of it.
Well, I can convert it, but it takes time. I’ve been told that people who think in analog time rather view it as a kind of progress bar and only convert it to the exact minute number when they are asked for the time by somebody else.
Like a foreign language, use it or lose it.
"Old clocks"
You're a teacher? Teach!
This is not surprising at all. Even when taking about time relative to the analog clock, it gets difficult, a lady asked me for the time at Walmart, and she could not understand "half past six". When I clarified that's 6:30, she finally got it.
"Ten to eleven" would get a blank stare, too, probably.
i went back to school last year and only a couple of my classmates under 30 could read clocks. kind of amazing.
