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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]Blue_Adept
(6,397 posts)I've got a lot of UK friends so I've been familiar enough with it (and watch way too much TV from there) so I figured out the basics of it all and I could understand it since it tracks similar to my own kids here in the US
Both are in high school - one graduating in a few weeks - and they did all the clock stuff when they were in the first three grades or so. But other than seeing the clocks in school, there wasn't anyplace else that they saw them. And most of their days are by the bell, not the clock itself. Once they got to middle school, which was built new, it was all digital in there. exposure dropped to zero. It wasn't a huge skill they had but it became a lost one. And one that even if they pick it up again they won't use all that often. I can't remember the last time as an adult I saw an analog clock.