What say we let Superintendent Picard know how we feel about his decision?Cecil J. PicardI'm sure he would appreciate the encouragement.
State Superintendent of Education
SuperintendentPicard@la.gov
Posted on 05/03/2005 10:23:34 PM PDT by chemicalman
More than 50,000 blank high school diplomas will be recalled by the Louisiana Department of Education because of a chance that was not approved by Superintendent Cecil Picard.
A department committee made a change in the date, switching A.D. to C.E., the nonreligious “common era.”
"I think it's a good tradition to keep, to have A.D. on it," said Lee High senior Rebecca Robert. "I like tradition."
Graduations at Baton Rouge schools begin next week on May 11 and continue until May 20. The Department of Education is working to have the diplomas reprinted.
"We are moving forward with the proper steps to make sure that our students receive their high school diplomas on graduation day because they’re deserving of that," said Tai St. Julien of the East Baton Rouge Parish school board.
Picard has ordered the "C.E." diplomas to be destroyed.
Good! The Liberal committee gets a public financial spanking for being Politically Correct Libs.
Unfortunately it's taxpayer money, unless someone in LA with standing pursues reimbursement under, for example, the RICO Act....
(even then taxpayers would take the hit but it would feel GOOOOOOD)
A busy body who's just a little better than us normal folk, someone who is enlightened and understands the big picture........probably a democrat with more power than they deserve.
What say we let Superintendent Picard know how we feel about his decision?Cecil J. PicardI'm sure he would appreciate the encouragement.
State Superintendent of Education
SuperintendentPicard@la.gov
AD is the way to go. CE sounds so lame, and overly PC to me...
:)
Aw! Come on. I think they'd make cool scratch pads.
I'm sure the cost of the flub will be taken by taxpayers rather than from docking the pay of the idiots who changed it to CE.
This is the first time I've ever even heard of 'common era' - somehow I missed this little PC piece of junk.
It is time to mess with their heads on this one!
Start spreading the word that CE actually stands for "CHRISTIAN ERA" and BCE stands for "BEFORE CHRISTIAN ERA"
heh heh
That's the way I always think of it! And you know it's true, even though they pretend it's not. They still use the birthday of Jesus, no?
It was a BFD, so some POS put the CE there made a BFM out of the EDU.
What a waste. Why don't they just sell them to illegal aliens?
*snort*
"Mess with their heads--Start spreading the word that CE actually stands for "CHRISTIAN ERA" and BCE stands for "BEFORE CHRISTIAN ERA"
BUMP!
"CE" is not a legal U.S. date. That designation, that "calendar" is not approved and is not recognized by any U.S. law or agency.
For contracts and documents with "CE" as a date, they are void. They are not recognized by the U.S.
You might as well put the Mayan or Aztek calendar date on a document or contract as put "CE" on it.
Great!
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