Some Bonner Springs High School students are passionate about promoting diversity at elementary schools in their area.
The students encourage others to include their peers who may not typically be included. They also went to Bonner Springs Elementary School to help younger students accept people who have a different skin color or religion.
The diversity team talked with third graders in the school library. They asked students to draw a picture using only one color and then draw a different picture using several colors. The activity was supposed to show more colors can make a picture more beautiful.
"We want to teach the children now so when they move from fourth to fifth and fifth to sixth and so on they will know that racism is not okay, " said Lathan Buckley, a sophomore at Bonner Springs High School and a member of the Diversity Leadership Team.
The Bonner Springs High School students are also taking their message into the community. The NAACP is meeting with the diversity team to map out a plan to promote religious and racial acceptance in the community.
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Cynthia Newsome can be reached at Cynthia.Newsome@kshb.com.
