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Texas State Board of Education considers ditching BC, AD calendar

[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 2022-08-03 09:19|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 09:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 10:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 10:18|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ The Ministry of Truth will handle the changes. Old books burned in the Memory Hole.

Posted by magpie 2022-08-03 10:58|| 2022-08-03 10:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Screw that. It's the year 2775 AUC.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-08-03 11:02|| 2022-08-03 11:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 11:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 the change at the Texas State Board of Education meeting on Monday...in Austin.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-03 11:39|| 2022-08-03 11:39|| Front Page Top

#9 ...Bored of Education...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-03 11:41|| 2022-08-03 11:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Taking care of the real problems.

Posted by Chris 2022-08-03 11:43|| 2022-08-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 12:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 12:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Anything trans child abuse is next.

Posted by Phons Omert2327 2022-08-03 13:03|| 2022-08-03 13:03|| Front Page Top

#14 a certified social studies teacher.
what did he learn? what are social studies?

Posted by irish rage boys 2022-08-03 13:13|| 2022-08-03 13:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 15:24|| Front Page Top

#16 Would you prefer 5782?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-03 17:44|| 2022-08-03 17:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 18:15|| Front Page Top

#18 Martian time in Hare

Posted by KBK 2022-08-03 18:45|| 2022-08-03 18:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 18:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-03 20:07|| Front Page Top

#21 Ha ha!

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