Continues to be reported that across the nation, schools have started to change to electronic clocks because children can't educate time on analog versions.

We asked some folks in the Tri-State if they believe children can still tell time traditionally. Here are a few of what we discovered:

"I am convinced they do not."
"Have you got children?"
"Yes"
"No, they do not. We struggle."
"have you got some children in your own life who understand how to tell time on those?"

"I was only saying exactly the identical manner when you request change once you pay money...they seem like a deer in the headlights."

"I know it is an electronic world, but it is a real world ability that pupils are still likely to want," states EVSC moment and third-grade mentor and trainer Tara Bobb.

In actuality, EVSC created an exceptional choice based on analog or cuckoo clocks to get their brand new elementary school, slated to start next year.

"We decided in it to place digital clocks from the commons places, but classrooms are still likely to get analog clocks.

And a part of the rationale behind this was because teachers would like to have the ability to utilize that as they are teaching time-telling abilities," states EVSC Chief Communications Officer Jason Woebkenberg.

EVSC educates time-telling abilities throughout elementary school working with a construction block system.

It begins in the 2nd tier by introducing the idea of time and contributes to the introduction of elapsed time-telling in the fifth level.

"We heard a few strategies relating to this," says Zara, a third-grader in Glenwood Leadership Academy. "The simplest one for me personally was ZOOM, and I also enjoyed it because it's the first letter of my name."

Zara says she can tell time on any clock, but electronic is her favorite because it is a lot easier to see with no glasses.

But she's one thing to mention for People Who think children cannot tell time.

"You are mad dudes!"