Article: High schoolers show understanding, respect: Education: Sharing via ?Challenge'.

Byline: Julie Bisbee

Mar. 30--BLACKWELL -- "If you really knew me, you would know." With those words social barriers between students dressed in black and students sporting the latest mall fashions tumbled down. "If you really knew me you would know, sometimes on the weekend I go drink."

Ninety-four students at Blackwell High School took part in Challenge Day, a workshop designed to help students who don't share the same path in the social stratification of high school life, communicate and unify. As the events began Thursday in this community of about 7,670, students from all high school grade levels were tentative, quiet and sat with friends ...

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