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How A Clock Tells Us About Today’s Kids
Growing up through the years the one thing school taught me was how important telling time would be to me. In school every year we would do paper after paper dealing with clocks and telling time.
Dial watches were all we had growing up and if you could not tell time it was tough on you. Boy, have things changed over the years. It seems every day I meet someone who cannot tell time. In a way, I cannot believe it, but in other ways, it’s more common than I thought.
Unfortunately, with the advent of digital and talking watches, the demand for knowing how to read a wall clock has become obsolete.
Schools now tend not to focus so much on learning to tell time, which is a shame. Even though today’s kids and adults may never use it all the time the knowledge is always good to have in your brain. Like anything you never know when you will need it.
So if you run into someone who cannot read a dial clock know he may have never learned it in his life or at school.
