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In reply to the discussion: British schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms because kids can't read them [View all]RockRaven
(14,912 posts)I'm young enough to have been school-aged when both digital and analog clocks were truly ubiquitous, a genuine mix.
I still remember, albeit vaguely, doing classroom exercises and worksheets with clock faces and various times, when I was 5 or 6, maybe even 7 years old. Within the past decade I have babysat my youngest cousins whilst they were doing their homework with the same.
Maybe if your adolescents/teens don't know how to read analog clocks it is because you didn't bothered to teach them? THAT'S YOUR DECISION, NOT A QUALITY/CHARACTERISTIC OF THEM.
If you decide that it is a skill kids don't/won't need, then just own that decision. Embrace your judgment. Declare that you have staked out this as your position. If you think it is important, then TEACH THEM THAT. Don't pretend you are a leaf floating on the breeze that is the kids you're supposed to be teaching.