Colleges Do What High Schools Can't

In yet another dose of sanity from those pesky "activist judges," yesterday a federal appeals court ruled that universities can ban military recruiters from campuses "to protest the Defense Department policy of excluding gays from military service." What's funny is that the court applied the same standard that the US Supreme Court used to allow the Boy Scouts to ban gay scoutmasters. Payback is indeed a bitch.

But what's crazy is that, while universities can do this, high schools can't, since (as I noted yesterday) recruiters are allowed access to high school campuses (as well as every student in America's name and phone number) by federal law, under the No Child Left Behind Act. No child left behind indeed. No child left behind the plane on the way to Iraq, is more like it.