Some Schools Removing Analog Clocks Because Kids Can't Read Them - CBS Philadelphia

Some schools removed analog clocks from exam rooms, relying on digital displays to help students race against time.

Call it a sign of the times. Some British secondary schools removed analog clocks from exam rooms, relying on digital displays to help students race against time.

Stephanie Keenan, head of English at Ruislip High School in north-west London, tells the Telegraph that her school has installed digital clocks after agreeing that many year nine, ten and eleven students cannot tell the time with an analog clock.

"As progress comes, skills are lost"

"I think it's utterly ridiculous"

"I know we try to limit their frustration levels but as some point, when is it too much?" said Erin Steffan, an early childhood educator at Reformation Nursery School in Media. She says the disconnect extends into speech

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