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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but it's a dying art like cursive. [/quote]

Telling time isn't "art" is a basic life skill, the basic of all life skills. [/quote]

Which can be done almost exclusively these days without consulting an analog clock. I taught my child how to tell time when he was 6 or 7, but it's becoming increasingly obsolete. 50 or 60 years ago the only way to weight something was to apply various weights to one side of the scale. While that skill might still be useful in a pinch no one does it like that anymore. [/quote]

Well....now that MCPS has removed cell phones from the classrooms, a lot of kids don't know how to find out the time.  The obvious solution is to read the clock on the wall in the room.  MCPS has invested in analog clocks.  They work.  MCPS is not going to replace the clocks on the wall with digital clocks.  So the kids either need to get a watch, learn to read the clock, or accept that they'll know when class is over when they hear the bell.  MCPS can't tell parents to buy their kids a watch but they can teach them to read the clock.[/quote]

I'm not advocating that we not teach kids this skill. The fact is that it's becoming obsolete. [/quote]

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