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		twelvedogs 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clo... I've worked in schools, we only have analogue clocks, phones are banned and I'm still constantly asked the time as they don't want to read them. Teaching them to do it is tough because it's incredibly uninteresting to them and someone will have a watch or something

spankibalt 21 days ago [–]

We got taught in first and second grade, reading maps and navigating by them included. Was neccessity for Schnitzeljagd and other scavenger hunt-type games. But, to be fair, most kids already knew how to read timepieces.

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