PeriodicallyPedantic

It's not useless.

It's just less useful that other things that should be taught in school. There is only so much time in a school year, and it shouldn't replace those more useful things in the curriculum.

I'm not saying nobody should learn it, I'm saying it's not a great use of school resources. If you appreciate the aesthetic or functionality, then by all means go out and learn it. I personally like them, but I think that it should remain out of the curriculum for purely practical reasons.

I still don't really see any useful skills that learning an analog clock teaches you, besides how to read an analog clock, which isn't useful because analog clocks are so rare IRL.
The handful of useful skills they assist teaching isn't worth it because there are better ways to teach those things. The clock isn't so good at teaching all those things that it's worth using the clock instead.

I shouldn't say there is no value in learning cursive or analog clocks, I just want to say that analog/cursive is being taught in place of more valuable lessons.

It's somewhat easy to teach, but also it's not a useful skill. If someone likes how analog clocks work, then they can learn it on their own time, since it's easy.

So what are the purposes? Nobody uses analog clocks anymore so afaict:

1. To teach fractions
2. Something to do with being a pilot???

What am I missing? 😛

Analog clocks are like cursive, there isn't any real world benefit so it seems like we should spend that effort on one of the many other things that schools could teach.

Teaching someone how to read a clock for the sole purpose of using it as a math example seems like a poor use of effort.

Submissions are closed, votes are in, and a winner is ~~decided~~ a tie!

Congratulations to @cloudless@lemmy.cafe and @thelsim@sh.itjust.works with 4 points each!

Cloudless got more votes, but thelsim got a coveted OP awarded point.
I'll leave it up to y'all to decide who gets to choose the next theme, but if no consensus can be reached then I'll pick thelsim, since last time they tied for first in a contest I hosted I didnt pick them

Combine this with the air pistols. That'd be fun to watch lol

The related event, competitive city planning, was cancelled because it took too long for the judges to move in and give their scores.

The choice was intentional 😭

For clarity: donair is a specific kind of doner kebab invented in Canada, not just a local name for it.
Canada still has other kinds of doner kebabs besides the donair.