to show people that what’s going on is not okay,” she told the paper.

But the reaction to the girl’s protest has touched off questions about school policies and students’ rights that have reverberated beyond her classroom at Catonsville Middle School. She and her family say a teacher reprimanded and humiliated her, in earshot of other students. Her parents became involved, as did the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland. […] The conflict goes back to ­February, shortly after Mariana had written a paper about Kaepernick for an English class. She says she was asked to write about a person she admired, and she chose the quarterback. “He stood up for what he believed in even though he could get fired,” she said. On the third day of herthe centerpiece issue of his campaign for mayor.

• As supervisor, what, if anything, would you attempt to do to address homelessness in San Francisco?

Fortunately, Mayor Newsom has been doing a good job on homelessness, the only issue on which he can claim some genuine success. But Newsom's success on homelessness couldn't have happened if city progressives hadn't botched the issue in the first place. During Mayor Brown's administration, while homelessness and squalor grew on our streets, what did city progressives advocate? They cheered on Food Not Bombs and the Biotic Baking Brigade, the pie-throwers! Finally, then-Supervisor Gavin Newsom got Care Not Cash on the ballot in 2002, and grateful city voters passed the measure and elected him mayor the next year in a campaign dominated by the homeless