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| Texas State Board of Education considers ditching BC, AD calendar |
| 2022-08-03 |
| [Fox4News] TEXAS - A draft of new social studies curriculum in Texas removes the commonly used BC and AD calendar dating system. You mean the dating system everyone else on the Planet is using? that dating system? The terms meaning "Before Christ" and "Year of Our Lord", would be written out in place of more religiously-neutral language. BC would be replaced by BCE (Before Common Era) and AD would be replaced with CE (Common Era). Andrew Pearce, a certified social studies teacher, brought attention to the change at the Texas State Board of Education meeting on Monday. "The Biblical authority for BC and AD was created over 500 years after the events described. So it has nothing to do with removing Christ from the calendar, and everything to do with accuracy," said board member Rebecca Bell-Metereau. But of course we all know it has everything to do with removing any vestages of Christianity from schools Barry Strauss, an author and historian at Cornell University, says the widely-used dating system was originally invested by a monk in the Middle Ages. "It was thought year 1 was the year Jesus was born, we now know he was probably born in 4 BC," said Strauss. The Texas Education Agency says the discussion is still early in the process, and the issue will likely be discussed at length this fall. |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #21 Ha ha! |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-03 23:22 |
| #20 From history's abyss [leftist terror] To optimist's hope (rounding error), He pissed off the pope And drove Dawkins to dope By insisting CE's "Christian Era." |
| Posted by: Shuck Wittlesbach6872 2022-08-03 20:07 |
| #19 I was going to comment on a new Hillary based calendar but decided I didn't want to be sinktrapped today. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-08-03 18:45 |
| #18 Martian time in Hare |
| Posted by: KBK 2022-08-03 18:45 |
| #17 Let's just start using Julian date. At least it is based on astronomy (a science). |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-08-03 18:15 |
| #16 Would you prefer 5782? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-08-03 17:44 |
| #15 #14 a certified social studies teacher. what did he learn? what are social studies? "I have a twitter handle and 114 followers." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-08-03 15:24 |
| #14 a certified social studies teacher. what did he learn? what are social studies? |
| Posted by: irish rage boys 2022-08-03 13:13 |
| #13 Anything trans child abuse is next. |
| Posted by: Phons Omert2327 2022-08-03 13:03 |
| #12 This is the same Texas Board of Education that recently firmly shot down a proposal to teach second graders some idiocy about slavery in language understandable to college students. Once again it looks like certain unnamed Progessives are trying to either agitate or put one over the rubes. BCE/CE instead of BC/AD has been in use in academia since I was a child, if not longer. That the Christian count of years has become nearly universal bespeaks the effectiveness of the culture that underlies it compared to all others, though I don’t hear anything about cultural colonialism when it is used. And after all, that method of counting replaced every kingdom, principality, and village across Europe having their own count based on local events of importance, as Afghanistan still does in measuring 1444 years since the Prophet Mohammed hijra. To be honest, I’m very glad these culture war things are being forced into the open instead of being quietly put in place in the educational equivalent of smokey back rooms. It's the year 2775 AUC. Rome, Rob? Oh dear. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-08-03 12:31 |
| #11 Why does the TX Board of Ed suck so much? They're always trying to Follow-up and dumb down the curricula |
| Posted by: Knuckles Angomort6922 2022-08-03 12:31 |
| #10 Taking care of the real problems. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-08-03 11:43 |
| #9 ...Bored of Education... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-03 11:41 |
| #8 the change at the Texas State Board of Education meeting on Monday...in Austin. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-03 11:39 |
| #7 Before Christ's Epoch, and Christ's Epoch? "It was thought year 1 was the year Jesus was born, we now know he was probably born in 4 BC," said Strauss. Jesus is a myth, but awcshually born 4 BC. That is, BCE, tut tut. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-08-03 11:35 |
| #6 we now know he was probably born in 4 BC," said Strauss My, the certitude of unsettled science. Not to mention this Hitchensian defiance, of the man upstairs in red. Such clever intellectuals, all fed on soylent victuals. And one short sleep past... then absolutely nothing! They are dead dead dead. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-03 11:15 |
| #5 Screw that. It's the year 2775 AUC. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-08-03 11:02 |
| #4 /\ The Ministry of Truth will handle the changes. Old books burned in the Memory Hole. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-03 10:58 |
| #3 Pointless to make a rule. They should cover BCE and BC and AD. Make sure the kids understand no matter how old the book they run across. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-08-03 10:18 |
| #2 The entire scientific community has gone to BCE and CE. Way to join the 20th century guys. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-08-03 10:02 |
| #1 ...I remember seeing BCE and CE decades ago, and actually have never had much of a problem with it. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2022-08-03 09:44 |