Court Opinion

ID: 9455553
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:25:53.412915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:38.551204
License: Public Domain

LEWIS, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I fully concur. However, I would hesitate to do so had the Supreme Court given affirmative judicial approval in Breen to that petitioner’s right to a student deferment because of his attendance in a private specialty music school. Although Breen had been given a II-S student classification by his local board that fact would appear to be accepted by the High Court only as background to establish the posture of the case. In the case at bar, therefore, we need not reach the disturbing question of whether the statutory words “a similar institution of learning” (similar to a college or university) includes music schools but excludes state vocational schools where the emphasis is on such subjects as mechanics and electronics. I am thoroughly satisfied that the Northwest Kansas Area Vocational-Technical School is not an institution of learning similar to the traditional college or university which confers a baccalaureate after completion of traditional requirements. Nor do studies at the school lead to such a degree on transfer such as is the case with junior colleges,