Why do students meet at the flag pole once a year?
Is that the only place they can meet and pray at school?
Is the flag pole ground the only hallowed ground left at our schools?

History of the Flag Pole Rally at American Schools

About 1970 we had a flag pole rally at Texas A&M at the start of school.
It was an effort to rally some students for Christ. My friend and I printed up flyers and passed them out in the dorms, then a week later, we met at the campus flag pole for a meeting.

In April of 1990 a group of students in Burleston, Tx met for a discipleship meeting. They decided to visit three different school campuses and pray around the flag pole on each campus. Two months later at a youth rally in Dallas, twenty-thousand youth were invited to do the same.

By Sept 12th of that same year, 1200 schools in four states had flag pole prayer meetings.