I heard a story about a kid telling an adult that they couldn’t read “circle time.” That any better?

I'm a millennial and I was taught how to read a clock in 2nd grade. Are they not teaching this basic skill anymore?

You didn't even have to read the article, just the excerpt from OP. "students are taught to read analog clocks in first and second grade in city public schools".

Looking at the sky will often help with distinguishing AM vs PM

I know by radio-controlled clock you probably meant the ones that automatically set the time, but I'm now imagining a kid with an RC car controller making the clock spin really fast

Why stop there? Why not the date and year too?

I hope so. Cursive is worthless and needs to die.

My 12-yo was never taught cursive, and it turns out her general reading of print is lagging, but she read handwritten cursive last night well enough.

I'm starting to struggle with this lately too

well i know hell and damn and the b-word

Right, find me one. Teachers everywhere said kids can't read analog clocks long before cellphone bans.

Nobody is "good with computers" until they can install their own operating system and manage files and backups.

My 2 cents.

I was in 5th grade back in 00's and if you don"t knoe how to tell time on a clock, you get made fun of. It offers a different, a more intuitive, perception of progressing time. It's more like a progress bar than just counting numbers

We are the same age and I had my first analog wristwatch in 1st grade. When my niece was 4 in '86 or so I taught her to read a clock. Weird world, guess it's not all about age.

Same shit, different Gen. The sundialists hated mechanical clocks, too.

"Ten to eleven" would get a blank stare, too, probably.

Like a foreign language, use it or lose it.

Well, I can convert it, but it takes time. I’ve been told that people who think in analog time rather view it as a kind of progress bar and only convert it to the exact minute number when they are asked for the time by somebody else.

Microwave, stove, tv, computers... Digital by default or digital only. Who hangs a wall clock anymore?

the only clocks I have on display in my house are analog

That's a choice. You don't have to have any analog clocks. I don't currently have any. I dislike decorational clocks and strictly have digital clocks as informational devices where I want the time at a glance. Not to mention, I have 4 appliances in the kitchen with digital clocks (oven, microwave, drip coffee, keurig). Meanwhile, I absolutely hate audible ticking, so the only analogs I've bought are watches.

Also, as a former child, I can tell you children do not know what time it is. I also had digital clocks available the whole time, ranging from my dad's "James Bond" Casio, to the VCR flashing 12:00 all the time. Mostly, the pale teal VFD type.

It doesn't make sense to think of reading an analog clock as a necessary skill. It's like driving a manual car. Can you? I do it daily. I can count on one hand the number of times being able to drive stick saved me in an emergency situation by being the only transmission available (it's a closed fist). All the same, I have never been in an emergency situation that was dependent on my ability to read an analog clock

Cuneiform is an ancient writing system that died 1900 years ago. An analog clock (many of which are still around today) has hands that point to the numbers on the circumference. I don't think the two can be compared.