cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41056130
At least 31 states and the District of Columbia restrict cell phones in schools
New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no longer know how to tell time on an old-fashioned clock.
“That’s a major skill that they’re not used to at all,” Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, told Gothamist of what she’s noticed after the ban, which went into effect in September.
Students in the city’s school system are meant to learn basic time-telling skills in the first and second grade, according to officials, though it appears children have fallen out of practice doing so in an increasingly digital world.
which new york teacher was stunned because i have questions
Right, find me one. Teachers everywhere said kids can’t read analog clocks long before cellphone bans.
You’re a teacher? Teach!
Bet they can’t dial a rotary phone or hitch a horse to a wagon either.
You should see them with a kerosene lamp.
This is dishonest, because unlike horses and kerosene lamps, analog clocks are in every (european) town, on the churches, matkets, train stations etc…
How is that even possible? The only clocks on display in my house are analog. Do people not have wall clocks? Do kids grow up never knowing what time it is? That’s a standard household furnishing.
Then again, it does say some students, so I probably should assume it’s a minority who never asked their parents what the fuck that thing on the wall was.
Microwave, stove, tv, computers… Digital by default or digital only. Who hangs a wall clock anymore?
Most people in my country, but I guess not USA, huh? I thought analog watches are almost always more fashionable than digital, too, so I’m really surprised it seems to be not used enough that a couple of dudes here dedicated paragraphs to oppose its use.
I’m not in the USA. I do have an analog clock and watch though but they just sit in the closet.
Here’s the problem, I don’t have a lot of wall space and I already have clocks everywhere else. If the purpose is to know the time, then the purpose has been delivered like 5 times over. I don’t need to waste wall space on an analog clock.
