Analog Time?

A report from Britain, that schools are removing traditional clocks because students can't read them.  That's a failure of the schools as much as it is of the parents. 

“The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional clock face as older generations,” Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders in England, told the publication. “Nearly everything they’ve got is digital so youngsters are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere.”

There was a story making the rounds locally several months ago.  It seems that there was this young engineer, recently graduated from college, who went to work for a local firm.  They had him doing basic research, looking at titles and surveys, and he had trouble doing that work because he couldn't read script and many of the public records prior to the 1950s were written in script.

It is neither terribly difficult to read a clock face, or to read script.  Those are skills I picked up... oh, about the third grade.  Along with my multiplication tables.