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in the meanwhile English schools are replacing analog clocks with digital ones because reading the two handles is too complicated for pupils these days... https
by TomK32 9y ago
in the meanwhile English schools are replacing analog clocks with digital ones because reading the two handles is too complicated for pupils these days... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/26/analogue-clocks-students-cant-tell-time-during-exams https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/26/analog...
- phrz 9y agoThis is not an awfully constructive or relevant comment, and moreover, the article challenges the very perspective of judgment that you take up on the issue
- reificator 9y ago> because reading the two handles is too complicated for pupils these days... No, it's because they're not exposed to them before reaching school or anywhere else afterward. So the school then has to teach how to read them. The fact of the matter is that the world is moving to digital clocks. You can argue about the merits of each, you can blame the generation that is being raised without them for not learning something they have no access to, or you can accept that the world is changing.