People from the USA fail at reading a clock

[milotic2]

We put young people on the street to the ultimate test - can they tell time? #CanYouDoIt pic.twitter.com/6BmyEP04b6
- Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) 29 de mayo de 2019

People on the street were asked to tell time using an analogue clock, with disappointing but not surprising results

Can you use a clock, ONTD? Alternatively, what watch do you have?

Comments

[longlonglong12]

Didn't these people have an analog clock on the wall at the front of the classroom so you could count the ticks until the bell rang?

[ka_blamo]

We still have analog clocks on the wall but most of my students (middle school) can't read them. They just check their phones/computer or ask me to tell them lol.

[anydoppelganger]

Oh my God! Seriously?? I used to teach SAT classes a few years ago and still volunteer as a tutor now at a local high school but have never noticed this, I feel pretty certain that my students can read an analog clock. They better know! They still have those clocks in classrooms

[ka_blamo]

Yeah :-(. This was at a title 1 school in the hood though lol

[anydoppelganger]

Aw that's hard :( You do very important work. For the program I volunteer at, the students are mostly 1st/2nd gen immigrant/ESL and have to demonstrate need by being under certain family income maximum thresholds, but their school has a lot of resources. I guess I always assumed that my students would be checking the analog clock but maybe *I* was the only one who was looking at the clock in the classroom and they were checking their cell phones instead....NOW THIS WILL NEVER STOP BOTHERING ME LOL

[accioanime]

I used to work at a high school and the students know the period is over when the long stick lands on the 9. They still can't read time, though.

[invisiblegirlx]

Seriously? I just find it hard to believe they can't read clocks cause it's there literally everyday.