NYC Phone Ban Reveals Some Students Can't Read Clocks (gothamist.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/02/1919255/nyc-phone-ban-reveals-some-students-cant-read-clocks
- Source link: https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-phone-ban-reveals-some-students-cant-read-clocks
Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said the ban has helped move foot traffic more swiftly through hallways and gotten more students to class on time -- they just don't know it because they can't read the wall clocks. The city's education department says students learn clock-reading in first and second grade. A 2017 Oklahoma study found only one in five children ages 6-12 could read analog clocks, and England began replacing classroom analog clocks with digital ones in 2018.
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Thiink about that for a minute... (Score:2)
Not only do many of the students not pass basic math and literacy tests, but they can't even manage basic life skills like reading a clock. The NYC school district is the largest in the country with nearly a million students and a huge budget. This is a national disgrace.
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> Not only do many of the students not pass basic math and literacy tests, but they can't even manage basic life skills like reading a clock. The NYC school district is the largest in the country with nearly a million students and a huge budget. This is a national disgrace.
And yet, we have millions of liberals defending the Department of Education. Why? Because Trump is the one who wants to disband it.
We should stop wondering how America will end up funding programs to find a cure for long-TDS. The problem is metastasizing quite organically within the failed institution we call education.
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Trump also wants to defund Sesame Street. Where they teach kids how to read a clock.
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Right, nothing like relying on TV to educate kids.
And this seems like a trojan horse to tout the benefit of Sesame Street as justification to keep PBS on air to keep airing biased anti-conservative content and get funding from the very people they routinely demean and defame.
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> Trump also wants to defund Sesame Street. Where they teach kids how to read a clock.
Saying he wants to defund it, implies they are still fully funded.
Which means if Sesame Street was actually doing the very thing you claim they’re doing, we wouldn’t be here having a discussion about idiots who can’t read a clock.
What should we sit and discuss first? The millions being wasted, or your tax increases defending the status quo?
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We should apparently also increase funding for civics lessons and explain what the US Department of Education actually does.
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Yeah that's because millions of liberals aren't stupid people who can only think in terms of black and white. Good and bad. With nothing in between. The department of education might not be great, but scrapping it completely is almost certainly worse. Especially for red states where it'll be all Jesus and creationism. Liberals it seems still persistently don't want red state citizens to get completely fucked over.
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liberals aren't stupid people who can only think in terms of black and white ... scrapping it completely is almost certainly worse
Just like the liberals aren't calling for the ending of the electoral college just because one election went against their wishes?
And nice attempt to paint yourself as the savior of this country, to liberate and educate those deplorables and "garbage" people, to rid them of the religion of the deity and keep shoveling the religion of LGBTQ in their mouths.
Re: Thiink about that for a minute... (Score:2)
> The NYC school district is the largest in the country with nearly a million students and a huge budget. This is a national disgrace.
It being largest and having a million students kind of cancels out with it having a huge budget, doesnâ(TM)t it? Because math? Perhaps its budget per student is average or even below average?
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You're ruining the flex :P
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They can't think about it for a minute though, they don't know how to read the time.
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I believe you are mistaken. Reading an analog clock is not a life skill anymore, since they are all but extinct, or are superfluous to some nearer digital clock. It's the same as understanding 24-hour times--quick, is 18:00 clocking off time or time for a relaxing evening movie? It's critical, yet some people can't do it. (So it's not actually critical, is it?)
Re: Thiink about that for a minute... (Score:2)
What you say makes sense if your goal in life is to know as little as possible. Otherwise, not so much.
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Once in a while I read a textbook, motivated only by curiosity, and I'm often taking a protracted dive into a new area for some complex hobby. I don't think reading a clock is the same type of knowledge as that which we nerds prize. It's not the kind of knowledge that impresses me, or whose lack I judge. (On the other hand, if you haven't done some deep thinking about philosophy, what even are you?)
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I toot my own horn to make the point that I'm not someone whose goal is to amass as little knowledge as possible.
Lack of use... (Score:2)
Skills atrophy with lack of use. They were taught how to read an analog clock when they were ~7 years old, and then never used the skill again.
It's hard to expect a child to retain skills they haven't used. I learned how to use a sewing machine in Home Economics back in 1994 or so. Damned if I could get one started today.
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I learned how to use a sewing machine in Home Economics back in 1994 or so. Damned if I could get one started today.
Isn't that hard, not for a basic model at any rate! I had cause to buy one a few years ago, and it was just a case of following the instructions on how to pass the thread through the tensioner, and what order it goes through the guide holes. Somehow the needles and holes have got a lot fuzzier than they used to be. Don't make 'em like they used to.
Re: Lack of use... (Score:2)
Learned to ski in 2004, spent a few days on the snow. Never skied again. Well... I did in 2017. I feared I had to relearn everything. Nope. Felt natural. It was as if I learned it yesterday.
This is in addition to 24h digital time (Score:2)
So this is in addition to them not being able to read 24h-based time that's common everywhere else and they think only the military uses?
I've always struggled reading analogue clocks (Score:1)
I was born in the early 70's and I've ALWAYS struggled with reading analogue clocks. My parents even bought me a donald duck watch to try and encourage me to read a clock face. When all the super cheap digital watches appeared in the late 70's early 80's it was a relief because I didn't need to try and interpret this thing that had meaningless arms that apparently told the time. Yet, I had no problem in reading from an early age. So, this is not a new thing. It's not an artifact of 'Digital addiction'
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And when your workmate says, "The next meeting is at quarter to three," what do you do?
Re: This is a parody, right? (Score:2)
EU teacher here, this isn't limited to the US. I teach kids from12 to 17 years old. There are quite a lot of kids that can't read analog clocks. Even the smart ones... Weird times we live in.
Re: This is a parody, right? (Score:2)
Maybe it is a good excuse to introduce the metric system in timekeeping. 86.4 ks in a day... ;-)