P1776 Flag Display

The flag of the United States and the Kansas state flag shall be handled and displayed in a proper and patriotic way. 

Administrative Implemental Procedures

1. It is the universal custom to display the flags only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and stationary flag staffs in the open. However, the flags may be displayed at night upon special occasions when it is desired to produce a patriotic effect. 
2. The flags are to be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously. 
3. The flags should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement. 
4. Both flags are to be displayed during school days, weather permitting, at each building in the school district. The Kansas State flag will be flown below the United States flag. 
5. No other flag or pennant is to be placed above or, if on the same level, to the right of the United States flag. 
   1. If two flags are on a raised speaker’s platform, the United States flag is to be on the speaker’s right. 
   2. If two flags are on the audience level, the United States flag is to be on the right of the audience. 
6. When the United States flag is displayed in a group of flags or pennants from staffs, the United States flag is to be at the center and the highest level. If the flags are to be hoisted and/or lowered, the United States flag is to be hoisted first and lowered last. 
7. When the United States flag is displayed with another flag against the wall on crossed staffs, the United States flag is to be on its right (to the left of an observer facing the wall) and its staff is to be in front of the other staff. 
8. When the United States flag is displayed (indoors or out) other than by being flown from a staff, it is to be displayed flat or so suspended that its folds fall free as though it were staffed. 
9. The flags are to be flown at half-staff only by direction of the Superintendent. When flown at half-staff, the flags are to be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the point midway between the top and bottom of the staff. 
10. The United States flag is never to be: 
    1. Displayed with the union down (except as a signal of dire distress) 
    2. Touching anything beneath it 
    3. Carried flat or horizontally 
    4. Used as drapery, a covering for a ceiling or a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything 
    5. Festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds 
    6. Disfigured by the placing on it of any mark, insignia, letter, word, design, or drawing. 
11. When a flag is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, it should be sent to the School Service Center where it will be incinerated in a proper manner. 
12. There shall be a daily recitation of the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America (K.S.A. 72-9928). 

Administrative Responsibility: Superintendent 

Latest Revision Date: May 1995  

Previous Revision Date: July 1994 P1776 

Updated administratively for alignment purposes: March 2018