Monthly Archives: April 2006

15-Year-Old Fallbrook High Honors Student Disciplined for Wearing a U.S. Flag in Her Back Pocket

Posted on April 13 2006 by Ferchil Ramos

SAN DIEGO: Fallbrook Union High School officials violated the First Amendment when they ordered 15-year-old honors student Malia Fontana to remove the small American flag she was carrying in her back pocket, the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego…

Youth Joins Fight for Free Speech

Posted on April 13 2006 by Ferchil Ramos

When she was a 15-year-old sophomore and high school honor student, Malia Fontana watched a classmate being ordered to remove an American flag bandana he wore, when many students were wearing American, Mexican, or other flags as statements about the…