Study: 4-in-5 Oklahoma City students can’t read clocks

[Alpha2]

My friends, it's the beginning of the end. 4 of 5 OKC kids can't read clocks.
http://kfor.com/2017/03/12/study-4-i...t-read-clocks/

[Gman]

How many also know how to tie their own shoes, write their name, or have memorized their home address? These, in addition to knowing how to tell the time, were all skills we were expected to know before we were in kindergarten. This is a parenting fail. Don't even try to blame it on the schools.

[brutal]

Why do they need clocks?

Siri will tell them everything they need to know.

[00tec]

[JohnnyEgo]

Embarrassing, but true. I didn't learn how to instinctively tell analog time until I was 30. My father bought me a digital watch when I was five, and I never looked back. When I turned 30, I bought my first analog watch, and it took me about a month to be able to accurately determine the time at a glance without counting by fives.

My son knows his own address, and has been typing emails since he was 3. His shoes are Velcro. His penmanship is atrocious, but he can recite to you the order of all the keys on each row of the keyboard. I consider that a parenting win.

[theGinsue]

As sad as it is, this is just another victim of living in a digital world now. It'll be up to old timers like all of us to ensure we teach the soon-to-be lost arts, like reading an analog clock, to the youth. One day such information could save their life.

[jhood001]

I think this is more of an issue of us older folks making it about 'us' rather than about 'them'.

Our minds have a funny habit of ignoring things we don't use.

Is anyone around here bummed out that next to nobody can still write in shorthand?

The keyboard made shorthand irrelevant. The digital clock made the analog clock irrelevant.

If the power ever goes out for an extended amount of time, the majority of analog clocks will go with it. And learning an analog clock at that point will probably come pretty quick to these ignorant little bastards that grew up in a time different than our own.

Especially when almost everything they have ever known will be gone and they'll have a heck of a lot of time on their hands to learn something a child masters in a couple of days.



We date and debilitate ourselves when we start viewing the world under the mind-set of 'remember when'.

[BushMasterBoy]

In the sixth grade, I stared at the clock more than anything.

[Irving]

I'm not surprised. I bet only 1-100 of those kids can shoe a horse. Pathetic.





^^THIS IS WRITTEN IN A FACETIOUS TONE^^

[Grant H.]

When I was in college, 13-ish years ago, the professor had to stop and explain an analog clock to a class room of 1400 students, because some decent portion didn't know what he meant when he talked about 12, 3, 6, and 9 in the room.

The sad thing?

This was Calculus based Physics for Engineers 1. First Semester class, but damn...