A small American flag, tucked into the back right-hand pocket of her pants.

"And for that, the Fallbrook High School sophomore was stopped by a security officer, taken to an assistant principal’s office and written up in an incident report that was placed in her student file.
Malia, who is an honors student, said she was shocked, then dismayed at what she believes was a violation of her free speech rights on March 31.

She and her mother contacted the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties, and the ACLU dispatched a letter to district officials demanding that they remove the report from Malia’s file.
The ACLU also is demanding that the district fashion a policy that conforms to long-standing law allowing students the right to express themselves on campus. If the district does not agree, a federal civil rights suit will be filed on behalf of Malia, said Kevin Keenan, the ACLU executive director in San Diego. "
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Bravo, Misha. If we can bitch slap the ACLU for being commie bastards then we can back slap them for doing something right.

As far as this flap goes, the American Flag is NOT something that should be hanging from the back of someone's pocket as if it were nothing more than a snotrag in waiting, but that wasn't the school's problem with such a display, as they are Loons of the highest order. If the young lady KNEW that this was against school policy but continued to disregard the regulation then of course she's wrong. Change the laws and/or regulations but disregarding them means you feel yourself to be be above the fray, and generally speaking we refer to that as being a criminal.

This is some rinkydink liberal venue of Lower Learning, so we won't call the kid a skell, but working within the system to change bad rules is what law abiding folks do. Every scofflaw alive can offer the "it wasn't a righteous law, man, so I like, broke it, man," defense, but that's not how this thing we call civilization works. But, sometimes we're forced to flaunt it to change it, and if such actions force the ACLU to do a good deed then this might very well be one of those times.