Four students at Palos South Middle School are organizing a celebration of different cultures at the school in Palos Park.
Palos South Middle School eighth graders, from left, Kamile Juzenas, Meda Kemeza, Indre Luksys and Penny Ocampo sit with their teacher Ann Marie Ruprecht at the school in Palos Park. The students have organzed an event that will celebrate all of the cultures of the school community. Four students at Palos South Middle School plan to help spread the beauty of cultural diversity through a special night of celebration.
The idea came out of the school’s Capstone Program, a voluntary endeavor in which the four students gathered at school before class once or twice a week to brainstorm ways they could help improve their community. “Everyone should have a chance to educate others about their own culture, but do it in a fun way so they remember it,” said Indre Luksys, who, like two of her peers in the project, has parents from Lithuania and speaks Lithuanian with them at home. “If they appreciate the different foods they’re going to try, they’re going to remember it.”“We’ll have a chance to do some cultural performances, so they’ll be impressed by the beauty of what they see,” she said.
“She wanted to solve the problem of cultural discrimination and embrace an open mind with other cultures,” Stapcinskaite said. “I’m most proud that Indre had a very great understanding of her culture from the very early years of her childhood. It is wonderful that she has made such an effort to encourage others to appreciate their own culture.”
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