Most children no longer have to learn to tell the time. It stares them in the face in form of the digits on their mobile phones.
No wonder schools around Britain are removing analogue clocks from their classrooms. This got late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel wondering whether children in the US can tell the time the old-fashioned way.
Apparently, most of them can’t. It’s funny, but in a sad sort of way.
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