Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

blave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still can’t understand how any kid cannot do it. Isn’t that something you learn from your parents before you even go to school

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    … Unless the parents are idiots as well.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No doubt the parents are idiots just like their kids

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Reversed Darwin. More and more of these.

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  • blave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think I learned how to read a clock in preschool, not from my parents

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “little hand”, “big hand” kind of stuff… yeah, I vaguely recall going over that when I was in JK/SK, possibly in the first few grade levels. IDK, I’m old now, so I don’t remember a lot of what happened when I was around 6.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve had, and honestly still do have issue with reading it rather than understanding. At least the way I was taught, it just sounds really weird, like 15:40 being “5 minutes till quarter to 4 in the afternoon”.
    I don’t need to think about “fifteen forty”.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      thinking is hard

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But why add unnecessary complexity?
        Like analog clocks are fine, they show time progress in a way digital don’t.

        But why read it in that more convoluted way? Like, I can tell you that you have 10100~bin~ seconds to answer some question, and you can tell that’s 20 seconds, but why the fuck do it that way. The only time it’s “five minutes till quarter to four in the afternoon” rather than 15:40 is when writing an assay, perhaps.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember learning in second grade.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The older you are the more you actually learned in school.

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      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Don’t undersell all of the life lessons you learned from being the age you are.

        Part of the reason why kids seem so dumb is because they don’t have that life experience yet. They’re still figuring it out. I’m sure that when I was a kid people looked at me and thought I was pretty dumb, just like many adults do to the kids now. blave has the right attitude about it; teach them. Someone has to. If everyone shrugs it off that someone will do it, then nobody does it.

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  • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Probably not – time isn’t that relevant before society puts you on the path towards hourly labor. I learned in elementary, but then I also grew up with digital clocks like most folks under 50.

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      we yearned for the mines… but we didn’t need no stinking clock because it was always dark. canary sure was useful though.

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