Pajama Pundits

Louisiana High School diplomas re-printed

On the date line the letters A.D. are printed, meaning a date after the death of Christ, but Kruithof and his staff noticed on this year's diplomas the letters A.D. had been replaced with the letters C.E. They searched and found that C.E. stands for common era.

The staff of the School Superintendent had to search for the meaning of this? What does that tell us about the state of education in the State of Louisiana?

Kruithof was told the change was made by an attorney, who said using C.E. would erase any reference to christianity. Kruithof called Bossier State Representative Jane Smith and she set out to find out how something this important could happen and no one in authority know anything about it. As a lawmaker, she should have known.

It was a silly change in the first place, one without a valid reason behind it - pettiness in the extreme. And, I suppose any change to the diplomas should be brought to the attention of the state's Superintendent of Education. After all, it's so much more important than teacher sickouts, or a middle school teacher trying to arrange sexual encounters with a 14-year-old on the internet.

I certainly hope our lawmakers have more important things to do than worry themselves over something this minor and insignificant. Maybe they could worry about the state's even more costly problems with paperwork.

I predict the next big fuss will be over who at KTBS decided not to capitalize "Christianity" in their web story and why the state lawmakers weren't made aware of that decision.