First: Some UK teachers exchanged the analogue with digital clocks. This was only to reduce interruptions by some students (during a specific kind of UK exams), who had trouble determining the remaining time in the heat of the exam battle.

Secondly: The use of analogue clocks is taught at UK schools. What's missing is the practice that former generations of pupils had. No more wristwatches, public clocks all but gone, and (what I am nostalgically missing from my youth) no more peeking onto parked car's dashboards to read the analogue clock there. Times have changed, and this specific partially lost ability is not the schools' fault. (Not to say that other things aren't...)

Can we please bury that stupid old meme, as it has been based on some inaccurate buzz and largely giving a completely inaccurate impression of the topic from the start...

I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...

Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?

Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.

Analogue clocks are a great example of kids having to understand a concept and apply it. And it's simple enough that anyone can learn it.

I often see examples where children are required to memorize a set solution, instead of showing understanding and reaching the solutions themselves.

These clocks are somewhat dated, but removing them just feels like another symptom of a failing educational system.

Ive tried to teach my students (High School) how to read an analog clock. Keep in mind, I dont have time to teach a whole class on it, just a little lesson on how now and then when they ask what time it is. They can read it for the class, but the next day theyve forgotten how completely.

Its not because theyre stupid or lazy. Its because they rarely get practice with it. We know how to read an analog clock because, yes we were taught it in school, but they were everywhere so we essentially had practice with it all the time. These kids see digital clocks 99% of the time. So when do they ever apply their knowledge?

The only students who can read the clock are the handful who have analog watches for fashion reasons because they use it all the time.

Its a matter of practice but in truth these kids dont really have to read an analog clock in the modern world.

I think removing everything that kids have a bit of a hard time trying to grasp just teaches kids to give up if anything isn't immediately apparent. Its not as much of a waste of time as cursive, and it's to be taught to think in another way.

I think that kids "learning how to learn" is really important, especially with how these AI models are stunting like a whole generation of people.

This is minor, but I also think less things need electronic displays/components that are hard to recycle and increase dependency on exploiting X country for Y resource. Its also cool to just be able to build a physical mechanism which digital clocks have no real feasible option to do

Snopes article about this from 2018 stating it’s mostly false.

What kind of boomer would believe this nonsense?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/

This has got to be AI written or cherry picked data. They’re pulling clocks to save a few $ if anything. Old schools used to have synchronized analog systems. I could easily see those things being removed.

Every year I taught for the past 30 years I have heard this but I will say that every year I had to go over how to read a clock at the beginning of the year and every time a kid would ask me what time it is I would point at the clock and ask them what time they think it is? At least they left the class knowing how to read a clock even though they were shit at writing essays.

It took me until age 15 to become comfortable reading analog clocks and confident knowing which way is left and right.

Hey cut me some slack, left/right gets confusing sometimes because of mirrors & facing people).

But I think learning how to tell time on an analog clock is an important skill because it broadens the mind regarding mechanics & mathematics, thereby developing more synapses in our brains & logic & mental computational skills.

I loved when a class would get quiet enough to hear the seconds hand click on the mechanical motor. I lived to see how close it was to the end of minute. One time in class I counted how black dots were on the ceiling. Wow I was bored

It’s only happened twice, but I’ve run into kids who couldn’t read an analog clock. You know what I did?

I taught them. It took, like, 30 seconds. I know it took 30 seconds because I was wearing a goddamn watch.

I had to check the community to verify I accidentally opened c/fakeconservativememes.

It was a relief when I realized this wasn't c/Lemmy Shitpost.

Analog clocks are just annoying, I support this change. Also let's change format to 24hr format

Imagine falling for this boomer rage bait when half the details are obviously and clearly censored.

One part of me wants to feel disappointed that kids aren't learning to read analog clocks, but another part of me thinks there was a time when people grew disappointed that the younger generations stopped learning to use an abacus in favor of digital calculators. I certainly don't want some old geezer giving me shit because I don't want to learn to use an abacus. I also don't want to be that old geezer.