Had this issue back in the 90s before kids had cell phones though, at least at my school. We got a brand new elementary school at the time and the only clocks they had were digital and a lot of teachers brought in analog ones only to find out a lot of students couldn't read them because they had no analog at home anymore either. I can read them but it always takes my brain a few seconds to fully engage it.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do they not teach reading clocks in school anymore? I remember like a quarter of first grade math being nothing but learning to read an analog clock. Surely if you're a school and discover a bunch of your students are lacking in a basic skill, that's a failure on your part as educators, not somehow a fault that your students don't have clocks at home. You said the 90s though, which was when I was in elementary, so maybe I just got lucky to have a school that assumed they had to teach us everything.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I was taught in school, but that was...several many oodles of decades ago. Fucked if I know if they teach it now lol. I was taught the clock, it's just for some reason my brain really does the calculations slowly.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I remember really struggling with it as a kid and I still have the same “ok, think through it, what time is it likely to be? Etc.” as you, to an extent. But much much less these days vs how I was, but it was always a focused effort for a long time for me.