100,000 Protestors... Angry mobs of students...

[Alex]

Why? (and I ask purely from the criminal justice point of view; obviously it is different from the school administrators point of view.)

If an act is, or should be, protected (from criminal presecution) speech on the sidewalk in front of the school I see no reason it shouldn't be in front of the flag pole as well.

Though in an ideal world the kid would have taken the Mexican flag down and then burned another Mexican flag that he owned. Though I think the administrators are being dicks if they referred this for criminal prosecution I don't think it warrants anything more than vandalism charges.

So, just to reiterate my original point, I would be just as supportive of this guys defense fund regardless of whose flag was burned (or similarly important symbols such as if he burned a cross, even on school property).