British schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms

[Anonymous 14]

“Schools in the United Kingdom are beginning to remove analog clocks from the classroom — because students are complaining that they can’t read them, reports say.

Officials have begun replacing the traditional clocks with digital ones as children have been unable to tell the correct time on analog clocks, The Telegraph reports.”

https://www.ajc.com/places/school/british-schools-are-removing-analog-clocks-from-classrooms-because-kids-can-read-them/FmT45BUpAvoUUjP8C5IM9I/

Says it all right there. Not much else I can add to this 🙁

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

More idiocracy.

Idiocy is taking off like an algae bloom.

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear. And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable. Women have rights; men have responsibilities; MGTOW have freedom. Marriage is for chumps. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart-R'as al Ghul.

[chirParticipant]

Future = Idiocracy…

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning; it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

[MonkParticipant 17036]

They can’t read. Period.

[Old BuckParticipant 3596]

I thought that movie was funny, until I realized it was a pre-historical look into our future.

There is no way I could bring a child into this world without feeling guilty and remorseful.

Don't chase tail. Turn yours around, walk away, and live free!

[MarketWatcherParticipant]

Pathetic.

[DarkRyuParticipant 2354]

Next they need to remove all books from the school because the students can’t read and replace them with movies.

It’s called TEACH them and DO YOUR F~~~ING JOB! How hard of a concept is this?

[WPLParticipant 2390]

These are schools — if the kids cannot read analog clocks, then the schools should do their job and TEACH the kids that skill. I remember having lessons in school on how to tie our shoes and how to read a clock; these are things I learned when I was 5 or 6 years old, and neither one was hard to master.

“Sorry boss, I didn’t know the reactor was overheating. I don’t know how to read an analog meter.”

[Anonymous 38]

Misleading headline / fake news. Look at the original article on the Telegraph, it’s talking specifically about clocks used in examinations.

[Sky-OParticipant 18949]

Years ago I was in Cabo with a pumpkin that was hot but had some cognitive deficits.

When we were in the room getting ready to go to dinner, she asked what time it was and I said: a quarter to eight.

She stood there, tilted her head to the side in deep thought then asked ‘What are the numbers?’

I said ‘7:45’

And she smiled and nodded her head like she thought she already knew or was close guessing before I told her.

[WPLParticipant 2390]

I’ve noticed that younger people often get confused when I say something like “20 minutes until 5” or “quarter to nine”. I think it has to do with being less accustomed thinking about the position of hands on a clock when thinking about time.

Sky-O wrote:

Years ago I was in Cabo with a pumpkin that was hot but had some cognitive deficits.

When we were in the room getting ready to go to dinner, she asked what time it was and I said: a quarter to eight.

She stood there, tilted her head to the side in deep thought then asked ‘What are the numbers?’

I said ‘7:45’

And she smiled and nodded her head like she thought she already knew or was close guessing before I told her.

[Billy&The CloneasaurusParticipant]

These will be some fine fighter pilots one day.

“check your six!! Check your six!!!!

“…”

Missile slams into plane and smoking wreckage and charred remains rain from the sky.

The answer, is no.

[SolidParticipant 7520]

This just proves the point that the school isn’t doing their job.

[Sky-OParticipant 18949]

WPL wrote:

I’ve noticed that younger people often get confused when I say something like “20 minutes until 5” or “quarter to nine”. I think it has to do with being less accustomed thinking about the position of hands on a clock when thinking about time.

Sky-O wrote:

Years ago I was in Cabo with a pumpkin that was hot but had some cognitive deficits.

When we were in the room getting ready to go to dinner, she asked what time it was and I said: a quarter to eight.

She stood there, tilted her head to the side in deep thought then asked ‘What are the numbers?’

I said ‘7:45’

And she smiled and nodded her head like she thought she already knew or was close guessing before I told her.

No.

In my situation it was because she had cognitive deficits.

She was 33 years old. Slept every night with a giant red teddy bear that she treated like it was alive and she assigned a personality to it. And she was a self proclaimed advocate for manatees and believed that boat motors should be banned in Florida to prevent more manatee tail injuries.

It was just that bad.

I survived over a year of it.

And it got real bad.

On that trip, I had some serious sunburn on my shoulders and one night she said she was going to put some kind of aloe based cream on my shoulders. I was laying in bed on my chest and she grabbed something from the arsenal of lotions, cremes, potions & related stuff in her bag.

Then it was like. . .

WTF. Why is my skin burning? It’s starting to hurt. And she kept rubbing it into my shoulders.

It wasn’t the aloe based cream. She accidently grabbed some kind of lotion that had a high fragrance and alcohol or toxic solvent or whatever in it.

And it burned through my sunburnt skin.

[joetechParticipant]

They’ll start doing that here, too, I’ll bet. Instead of making our lives easier, computers are turning us into idiots…all because someone invented the 7 segment display. This is the reason I drive a stick shift. If they can’t drive it, they can’t steal it. Oh, but it has a digital clock!

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[sjt1975Participant 2536]

That’s why it was a fundamental part of Primary School education to learn to read an analogue clock!!! Like learning to read, to write, to do fractions, and to know times-tables. I can only assume that the young generations are going to be retarded, through a lack of proper education from a young age. It makes me so angry, as I did Teacher Training some 20 years ago, and I taught Primary School children how to read an analogue clock, how to do their very basic mathematics, and how to use a basic computer.

[Anonymous 3]

Sounds usual fake news, designed to attack a victim group that can’t fight back. Something went very wrong some 50 years ago, when older generations became very childish and just attacked younger people relentlessly. The past 20-30 years it’s been especially so on Millennials, and now the Millennials are turning around and attacking the next wave of children.

Western society is worthless.

Oh, and I heard the same s~~~ as a kid. Especially how stupid things like penmanship showed intelligence. Anyone can learn to do inefficient things. The same idiots smugly declaring their intelligence because of penmanship (which they would refuse to allow others to judge) could never learn new things like typing or using computers. They insisted they were smarter and computers were stupid. Women are notorious for this type of thing too, something simple that they were taught they turn around and use evidence of as their superiority, while refusing to allow themselves to be judged and throwing a fit if someone is better at it than them (say cooking or cleaning, although women gave up mostly on even trying those things).

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

I have a digital clock, but 3 analog clocks. I really don’t like digital stuff, exception when it makes real sense. All this digital s~~~ is stupid, and makes things more likely to break down and harder to repair.

The electric range I have is all digital s~~~, and it’s f~~~ered. The oven doesn’t work to bake or broil but the burners work. I replaced a temperature sensor but the oven still doesn’t work. I know it is not one of the two heating elements because the broiler and baking elements are on different controls.

I’m going to replace it with a less expensive model that is all dials. I don’t use an electric can opener even. I prefer most things to be manual or analog. I try to keep stuff I have working long term. I once replaced a sewage ejector in the basement, but at some point it became obvious the electric sensor didn’t work right, so I replaced it with the analog floating kind.

Technology does seem to make some people stop thinking, like their brain has rotted. On a long trip back from the beach, I drove with one of my kids and had a hand-drawn map, and the ex had the other 2 kids and GPS. We left at the same time. Want to know who got lost on the way back? When she got home, an hour later, I was taking a bubblebath, and eating pizza that I had cooked when I got home.

Before the western world reaches SHTF, I plan on having a collection of records I can play on my old-style record player. I still have my old Sony Walkman CD player from when I was in college. I think I bought it around 1990… it still works. Its good to be able to fix most things.

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear. And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable. Women have rights; men have responsibilities; MGTOW have freedom. Marriage is for chumps. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart-R'as al Ghul.

[Anonymous 0]

Why do they have clocks in the classroom ? We never had, during my schooldays, o.k. 100 years ago or so.
The teacher finishes the lesson, not the clock…Basta.
LOL

[GargamelSpectator 29101]

I never explicitly learned how to read any clock since asking anyone around me in a constant family battle situation was uncomfortable. And “asking” was also asking for more trouble if I picked the wrong time to ask and I risked getting shamed and lectured for “not being able to do this at age 3″…

So I observed and analyzed my surroundings. And whenever the radio or the TV mentioned the time, I would see where the clock pointers were positioned. And the rest came by just getting used to it.

I started loving digital clocks at age 11 maybe to get some bad memories out of my mind and as part of being “superior” to my sister c~~~. (She was p~~~ed that her “retarded” brother was fit in using the “high-tech” of that era)

And because I needed the timer to accurately record radio programs starting when I was about 13.

School was annoying since it kept me from listening to some favorite shows. And soon, I had 2 timers and 2 cassette decks.

In July of 2018, this honey pot forum was sold out to an unidentified NPC sock puppet and troll organization. Most independent thinkers and writers migrated to other MGTOW forums as a result of the never-ending infighting and deliberate trouble starting caused by members who were given "carte blanche" by the admin to do whatever they want. Before my departure, I only left a few thousand cat pics here to comfort and ridicule the feminist owners who now run this place. Their background agenda is to make MGTOW look like a club of losers the public eye. And during the course of 2019, they actually managed to destroy almost all other MGTOW venues as well. Here is the truth about "theindependentman.org" aka "TIM" which was created as an extended workbench to further divide the community. When you register, they install a spyware Zombie cookie on your browser that does all kinds of things the user does not know of: http://www.filedropper.com/essay-on-the-removal-of-malware-cookies-used-by-tim

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