About 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 26, I sent two of my students out to lower the flags from our flagpole. Our school, St. Paul’s Lutheran School, is located directly across from The Sedalia Democrat. As witnessed by some onlookers, who were standing outside the newspaper offices, the two girls did not respect the American flag. They were being childish and one wrapped it around themselves while the other took a picture. Then they proceeded to wad the flag up and bring it inside where they folded it properly.
Our school received a phone call the next day about how we had been disrespectful of the flag. I called the class of seventh- and eighth-graders together and discussed the call. The two girls were mortified and were very repentant. They had not been thinking. We discussed our procedures in raising and lowering the flag and will make some changes so that this will never happen again.
