"Don't test for Covid, it will only make our numbers increase!" -Donald Trump, 2020.

Imagine falling for this boomer rage bait when half the details are obviously and clearly censored.

I had to check the community to verify I accidentally opened c/fakeconservativememes.

It was a relief when I realized this wasn't c/Lemmy Shitpost.

Schools removing books as teenagers cannot read them.

What kind of boomer would believe this nonsense?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/

I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...

Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?

Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.

Next schools will start removing textbooks because students cannot read. They will replace with audio books.

No time for learning, only tests

Every year I taught for the past 30 years I have heard this but I will say that every year I had to go over how to read a clock at the beginning of the year and every time a kid would ask me what time it is I would point at the clock and ask them what time they think it is? At least they left the class knowing how to read a clock even though they were shit at writing essays.

First: Some UK teachers exchanged the analogue with digital clocks. This was only to reduce interruptions by some students (during a specific kind of UK exams), who had trouble determining the remaining time in the heat of the exam battle.

Secondly: The use of analogue clocks is taught at UK schools. What's missing is the practice that former generations of pupils had. No more wristwatches, public clocks all but gone, and (what I am nostalgically missing from my youth) no more peeking onto parked car's dashboards to read the analogue clock there. Times have changed, and this specific partially lost ability is not the schools' fault. (Not to say that other things aren't...)

Can we please bury that stupid old meme, as it has been based on some inaccurate buzz and largely giving a completely inaccurate impression of the topic from the start...

Teenagers not being able to tell the time from analogue clocks is CRAZY (saying this as a teenager myself)

If the yung-uns have no drive to turn back time and actually use and develop their brains, because my gen isn't going to rescue them and the boomers have also fallen into the internet trap. It's on them to save themselves, really.

If these trends keep going the way they are then idiocracy becomes reality.