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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]muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)The original report was in the Times Educational Supplement, which said "Schools say they have had to install digital clocks in their exam halls". The point being about the public exams that students sit from about age 16 onwards (which are timed, and I presume no phones are allowed in). That was picked up by the British Daily Telegraph and the BBC, which were also clear that this was about the clocks placed in the exam halls.
But the AJC, perhaps not used to the typical way public exams are taken in the UK (at desks set out in the school hall or similar large area, normally) has changed that to "in the classroom", though when they say what was tweeted, it does say "exam hall". The point is that analogue clocks have already disappeared from so many places that, when it's time to give the students a clock for their exams (and many will not have a watch these days, and you're not allowing them their phones), the analogue clock may be something they haven't actually used in 10 years, and then only in a maths class when they were 6.