Well, my answer is that it ought to. If we can learn to spell millennium, then it seems reasonable we should also learn the math. But there's a lot of weight piling up on the side of poor counting skills.
Governments are on the bandwagon.
They're shelling out big chunks of cash for millennium celebrations, and there are speeches daily that refer to entering the new millennium on January 1, 2000. But the only place the Year 2000 is really going to have an impact is on that old computer sitting on your desk. My father's a retired math teacher. He explained it all to me one day when we were watching my son play soccer. One to ten.