I learned from my 9th grade son that we no longer have BC and AD, in favor of BCE and CE (Before Common Era and Common Era). Anything to take Christ out of schools, right? So I told him that as far as we are concerned the new acronyms stand for Before Christ Existed and Christ Exists.
The same teacher has opined that Howard Zinn (A People's History of the United States) is the most important historian that ever walked the earth.
The BCE/CE designation has been in use by many Egyptologists and historians for about 10 years now.... it's kind of sad, actually.
I also find it odd that schools can have a moment of silence for the express purpose of reflecting on gay pride, but cannot allow students to have a moment of silence to pray....
Of course, SOME kids were probably sneaky about it.... they probably PRAYED when they should have been thinking about gay pride!!!!!