One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for April 30, 2010

Modern kids mostly cannot read an analog clock, just digital.

a new twist on an old saying

“all sanity is lost.”

It’s been awhile, but it seems telling time waits until after kindergarten. (I can’t remember exactly which grade level.) After all, the children need to be able to count up to 60, and understand what a fraction is, before teaching them to read a clock. (I taught my sons both analog & digital at the same time.) In kindergarten, we worked on learning the calendar.

An oldie but a good punch line.

I don’t recall if they started last year or not, but my first grader is learning telling time (analog) this year.

schools are requiring the kids to know the primary colors. the alphabet and be able to count to fifty before starting kindergarten

It’s been too long for me my two are adults. Ruthie you have a point. When was this strip done. With KS budget cuts there maybe more kids like James and the bully who loose out as cuts happen and class size gets bigger.

Well, all this is just a setup to a punchline in a joke, after all. Not of the best – in a really good joke, the setup is rock-solid realistic, which makes the punchline punchier! :) – but it will do.

My son learned to read analog this year, first grade.

Really?!