If you can’t learn to read a friggin clock, why are we testing you? You’re stupid.
“But BFH, they are from a different world and you can’t do the things they are used to?”
Oh, really? Which things?
I recently lied that I knew a how to use a technology that I had never SEEN BEFORE just to get the gig. I was doing the job the next night.
I once lied on the phone and told an art director that IRONY knew how to use a certain program because the money was great and I knew he’d be willing to give it a shot.
The guy asked for his number and I said, “hold on, I’ll get it.”
I quick ran to another phone and called him and said, “an art director is about to call you for a job, tell him you can do it, no matter what he says he needs. I’ll explain later.”
The next night he was doing the job. You know why? He’s not a friggin’ idiot.
Any kid that can’t learn to read a clock in 3 minutes is a moron. Sorry.
Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.
Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.
Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices.
“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” he told The Telegraph.
“They are used to seeing a digital representation of time on their phone, on their computer. Nearly everything they’ve got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere.”
Mr Trobe, a former headmaster, said that teachers want their students to feel as relaxed as possible during exams. Having a traditional clock in the room could be a cause of unnecessary stress, he added.
He said that schools are trying to make everything as “as easy and straightforward as possible” for pupils during their exams.
“You don’t want them to put their hand up to ask how much time is left,” he said.
“Schools will inevitably be doing their best to make young children feel as relaxed as the can be. There is actually a big advantage in using digital clocks in exam rooms because it is much less easy to mistake a time on a digital clock when you are working against time.”
Does anyone really know what time it is? If you really want to fool them make them use a sundial. And if they don’t know their numbers they won’t be able to tell what time it is anyway. MORONS!
The world is naturally analog despite what over-educated morons want it to be. Digital information is a REPRESENTATION of analog information.
This is why cashiers in stores today can’t reliably count change back to people without the assistance of the “modern” cash register that tells them what amount to give back to the customer.
By design, people living today are becoming more ignorant and helpless than they have ever been.
Bring on The Time Bandits (great semi Monty Python movie) and play the long version of Time Has Come Today by The Chambers Brothers real loud.
You ever try to stop a red ass baboon in Africa and ask the time?
That’s what I thought.
I’ve never considered asking a red ass baboon if it has the time.
I might realize my greatest fear that it would answer back: “For what?”
What if it just said “mooch”, and left?
This is retarded. These are akin to uni level entry exams.
Could have just put a digital next to it and not made the whole bunch look like twats. Nice job there union boss.
About ten years ago, my buddy was teaching his eldest daughter to drive and wanted to let her cruise around the fields in his ol’ beater truck…. the first time she climbed in the old Ford, she pointed to the window crank and asked, “Hey Dad, what is that?”… exposure has much to do with it. I do not think that people take the time to teach children how to read an analog clock… of course MY children and grandchildren will!
It is similar to the U.S. Army dropping “grenade chucking” from the recruit requirements…. Not that I approve, but the vast majority of kids do not run and play and hurt themselves anymore.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
My 3 year old grandson can read an analog clock, now he still has problems with 10, 15 after, etc., but he can tell you it’s 1, 2 o’clock etc., and then can tell you the big hand is on 3, so it’s between 4 and 4:30. He just turned 3, give him a month or so and he’ll be telling time.
It is sad that people don’t teach a kid how to tell time.
“What if it just said “mooch”, and left?”
I want to understand this, but I hate when humor is explained.
I felt dumb that I couldn’t read a clock as a young child. I also couldn’t read a mercury thermometer. My dad the doctor was pissed at me for 3 days when I “sterilized” it under hot water one time before I took my temperature.
Being dumb about things is just a natural starting point. It doesn’t have to stay that way and become your identity.
The only outrageous thing I see about this article is that it’s the TEACHERS that have failed them and the teachers’ solution to this failure? Abandon all hope of the children learning something useful and give in to the laziness of reading digital clocks.
They sound like Democrats to me.
Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time
are books next to be removed because johnny cannot read ?
They are driven to be mindless sheep so they can be handled easier.
Eh, what’s a riot every now and then? Wait till the car burnings start.
If we teach them how to tell time, the next thing you know people will say we should teach them other outdated stuff like civics and the constitution and the true history of the democrat party… Where will it all end?
FTA, “Because of this, they’re not developing the underlying foundation skills they need to grip and gold a pencil.”
“Golding” a pencil was something I always found difficult. And my mother was a teacher, who made certain her two children were well schooled. Mind you, this was back in the 50s when the education system was much, much different.
I ordered at McD’s yesterday. The total came to $4.07. I handed the kid $5.12. He stood there for a second, and then told me he’d already entered “$5.00” into the register, and proceeded to hand me 93 cents. I just shook my head and pocketed the coins.
Thirdtwin – I did something similar a little while ago only the total was a little over $5.00, so I handed him a twenty and change. He hands me back some coins. I told him I gave him a twenty and change…. it turned into a cash register audit with the manager! I eventually got my change, but whutta cluster! I almost don’t blame them because I’m sure there are people trying to take advantage of them all the time, but some of these kids have no concept of basic math.
Ha! I remember that incident well. I said to BFH, “Hold on one second, someone is calling me on the other line.” And BFH said, “That’s an art director! Just tell him you know the program!!”
And we both became Photoshop and Quark “experts” overnight.
So none of them could pass the “draw a clck” part of a mental status exam?
Wonder if these kids can tie their shoes, always has to wear wear slip ons I bet.
Do it. Get rid of all clocks.
Wait ten years, then replace all textbooks and GPS instructions and replace the words right and left with Clockwise and Counter Clockwise.
That will show them
This is just stupid. Then again, I deal with kids who were considered fit for school who can’t even tie their own shoes.
I do use a digital clock, but I screw with them because I’ve always maintained military time as an adult. A lot of them remain baffled.
Just sawy your comment, farmwife. Some of them favor velcro.
Any kid who raises their hand to ask ‘how much time is left’ isn’t going to pass the test, anyway
Don’t forget to thank a teacher.
About 25 years ago, I was on a school board and an 8th grade boy told me he couldn’t tell what time it was on an analog clock. In actuality it can tell time on an analog clock much faster than reading the digits on a digital clock.
Good thing none of those childerns can put muslim and pencil together.
Crackerbaby,
I’m not faulting people for ignorance, I fault them for stupidity.
You can’t fault someone for never having seen something before, but when you say, “the little hand represents the hour, and the big hand represents the minutes,” and they still can’t get it— that’s stupid.
“Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.”
1. Aren’t they the teachers??? Teach!
Nah, it’s just one more thing their lazy asses don’t have to teach.
2. Analog will not go away. It will bite them on the ass, eventually. Because some where in their chosen profession, they’ll need it.
Also, maybe they’re taking the clocks down so that the kids don’t see time passing- like they do at casinos. You don’t see a clock anywhere because they want to keep you on the tables and slot machines losing money. lol.
Who here can use a sundial and an abacus? Those items are still here and they are not going away, either.
BTW, you can probably set your watch by what your pets are doing during the day. 😀
Perfect example Ros,
Our template uses military time for posting. I had heard of it but didn’t really know what it entailed.
I was forced to learn it, and it was arduous and a long curve… took about 6 seconds.
12 doesn’t reset at noon for another set of 12. You go to 13, 14, etc… all the way through the 24 hours of a day.
4pm is 1600 hours. 4:30pm is 1630 hours.
I didn’t stand there peeing myself in need of a crying closet.
Yes, teachers are to blame, but so are the kids. The clocks are there, on the wall, allllllllll day. And they can’t figure it out unless someone “teaches” them?
Are you kidding?
Mary Jane, you know my dog she eats at 0430 and 1630 every damn day, and YES you can set your clock by her!
“What comes after twelve ?”
“One.”
“No, what comes AFTER 12 ?”
Some years ago I had to explain that our foreign student workers were always late because they were used to “metric time.”