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Circa 1980, Junior high school outside of Philadelphia in my fairly affluent suburb was a war zone....burnouts ruled the halls and bathrooms with impunity, and the jocks and cheerleaders could do no wrong. Heaven forbid you were slightly quirky, poor, or somehow off the beaten path - you were targeted.

When one of the (cooler, not a jackwagon) jocks beat the snot out of a kingpin burnout, it was a glorious day and we cheered. But then it was back to looking over your shoulder,

When the burnouts and losers reached 16 and dropped out, school got better. But again, if you were not a Top 40 fan or in sports or a cheerleader...as the late Neil Pearl put it, be cool or be cast out. The gays simply joined the Thespian Club and everyone left them alone. The nerds joined AV Club, and the people in the band were marginally left alone if they played drums or saxophone and maybe trumpet. Guys playing flute were targeted unless they could play Locomotive Breath.

Nobody in the administration gave a rip about the damage then. I seriously doubt the CDC cares now, either. This is all about power. I bet secretly, the CDC laughs at the gay kids and thanks their higher power that their kids go to private school and aren't messed up like "the little people."

Indeed, this seems like an encroachment on the Department of Education's turf. Maybe we will see a federal cat fight. I'll bring popcorn and pray both departments lose.