“Don’t test for Covid, it will only make our numbers increase!” -Donald Trump, 2020.
No time for learning, only tests
Imagine falling for this boomer rage bait when half the details are obviously and clearly censored.
Next schools will start removing textbooks because students cannot read. They will replace with audio books.
People reading this comment might think it’s absurd. But sadly it is more than likely true and will happen soon. Why burden students with the hard work of learning - you might hurt their feelings
Father, I cannot click the book!
Schools removing books as teenagers cannot read them.
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.
45 year old here…I’m pretty sure I’ve never bought an analog clock and I think it would be weird for a school—or any place, really—to have one. I’m not surprised kids don’t learn outdated technology and anybody who is mad about it should pick up a slide rule.
a slide rule
Every school i have been in has them, even last week. Many lesson plans include analog clock stuff because its another way to deal with fractions, and help kids learn analog in case they are in an old building or subway/airport that has analog clocks. It’s not quite obsolete yet.
If the yung-uns have no drive to turn back time and actually use and develop their brains, because my gen isn’t going to rescue them and the boomers have also fallen into the internet trap. It’s on them to save themselves, really.
If these trends keep going the way they are then idiocracy becomes reality.
Idiocracy won’t happen.
The smart people aren’t going to prepare a solution. And the planet will probably cook before then anyway.
We are already there
Teenagers not being able to tell the time from analogue clocks is CRAZY (saying this as a teenager myself)
They can’t use a slide rule either. What are they teaching in these schools??
Of course it’s crazy but in our current clown world they are not dumb but somehow victims
Nah, they’re definitely dumb in my opinion. My parents and my friends would call me dumb for sure if I couldn’t tell time from analogue clocks. And are you sure this doesn’t only apply to specific countries?
Are we being serious right now bro?! 🤦
Every year I taught for the past 30 years I have heard this but I will say that every year I had to go over how to read a clock at the beginning of the year and every time a kid would ask me what time it is I would point at the clock and ask them what time they think it is? At least they left the class knowing how to read a clock even though they were shit at writing essays.
About thirty years ago I was a teen. I remember talking with a girl only a few years younger than me, and being astounded that she didn’t know how to read an analogue clock.
Exactly as you indicated, this is nothing new.
What kind of boomer would believe this nonsense?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
I don’t really get it. Snopes says “mostly false”, but then confirms that the UK made a recommendation to replace analog clock for digital ones because “some students had trouble estimating the remaining time”.
While OOP is a shortcut/overgeneralization, it doesn’t sound “mostly false” to me.
It could be to deal with learning disabilities not the average kid which makes it mostly false.
Also a recommendation doesn’t mean it happened.
My son has down syndrome, he did better with analog because you can see the motion and time left in an hour, whereas digital was abstract and he didn’t really grasp 47 was getting close to 60 etc.
😃i have this problem with digital as well (just neurodivergent):
22:55 -> oh nice not too late, I can still do stuff
23:05 -> o damn, o dear, no time left, gotta finish up, gotta get to bed soon, damn💁🏻
On the other hand, if I only use analog, I lose more time checking the watch until I know the time (including double check) than I win by knowing the time at all 😂
Best is to have analogue and digital side-by-side, or digital within analogue.
Like, I need the movement of the minutes, but fast info about current hour.
On the other hand, trouble reading analogue clocks can be one of the signs of dyslexia.
Some ppl who just badly want to be angry.
This article is old enough to buy cigarettes now.
They are too loud, I had to insist to put the clock down and take the batteries out, since the ticking was too loud.
Being older (mid fifties) I was taught the analogue clock. My eyes no longer work so well for reading, and an analogue clock face allows you to see the hands and know the time without having to work out where I’ve left my glasses. On my phone’s sleep screen I’m using large high contrast digits so I guess I’m using both styles. Also much easier to visualise time deltas on a clock face.
Something like 30 years ago analogue clocks seemed to be dominant. Does that mean you lived through childhood and adolescence without reading time?
Expensive digital watches with glowing led segment displays turned up late 70s, but battery life was shit. I never had one.
By the 90s cheaper digital with LCD screens were everywhere. Battery life was great.
But the point wasn’t about vision but the simple intelligence needed to read an analog clock
