High Schools Bar Military Recruiters;
GOP To Shelve Its Own Principle
On Local Control With Federal Edict

In Washington, DC Republicans members of Congress are pushing their conservative agenda in the name of fighting terrorism -- often at the expense of queers and often at the expense of education. . For example, Congress seems ready to approve legislation that would deny all federal money to any high school nationwide, that bars military recruiters because of Armed Forces discrimination against queer folk.

According to the Senate Armed Services Committee, in 1999 there were 4,515 instances in which high schools denied access to Army recruiters, 4,364 instances for the Navy; 4,884 for the Marine Corps; and 5,465 for the Air Force.  The rationale is, the military has to get into those schools to attract officers to lead the war against Osama bin Laden.

By the way, the Republican party stands for local control of public schools, not federal edicts; except where conservative ideology is involved