24 hour clock in year 2?

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DD's class are learning to tell the time. She has taught herself the 24 hour clock which I prefer so all our clocks are set to that.

She had a picture with 6 o clock which they had to write as a digital time and she wrote 18:00. The supply teacher that was in today said he had to mark it as wrong.

Its not though is it, so is he right to mark it as wrong?

no
unless that wasnt the q

Supply teacher shouldn't have marked it wrong, although 24hr clock isn't taught at year 2

Not sure of the entire story of course. Going off last weeks homework, it was pictures of clocks and you had to write the digital time.

But if she has taught herself, doesn't make it wrong does it?

ridiculous! instead of aknoledging your DD can read the time! Well done to your DD and you( teaching the time is one of the thing I found hardest to teach my dcs!)

Why can the teacher not tell her it is correct but tell her that they are other ways to read the time as well?

When DD1 started she could write the alphabet in capital letters, i got told off because "tha is not the way we start teaching them!" she had to "relearn" it eventually though!

@typos!

I know Ruby, but she knows 06:00 is morning and 18:00 is evening and chose 18:00. The clock that displayed 6 o clock didn't (as far as I am aware) say morning or evening or AM/PM or whatever.

Ah, now the whole story is coming out after I interrogated questioned her further.

She asked him whether it was morning and he said yes and she still chose to write 18:00 rebel. So yes, he was right to mark it as incorrect.

As you were..........

LOL @ rebel daughter! it sounds like you are going to have a lot of fun over the years!

LOL at thinking to ask "is it morning?" She'll be a regular resident in Pedants' Corner then

She is a pedant already, she is always rolling her eyes and telling me how her friends have used the wrong their/there/they're etc.

She also refuses to bring her spellings book home and does them all 'blind' on a Monday as they are too easy .