Paris High School students selected for a special Challenge Day experience are starring in the MTV series “If You Really Knew Me.”
Challenge Day administrators chose 12 schools across the nation, and students from PHS will be featured in the documentary series, which premieres at 11 p.m. Tuesday, July 20. The night Paris students take center stage is not known at this time.
“If You Really Knew Me” goes inside high schools across the country to discover what can happen when students peel back their public personas, break out of their cliques and show their peers who they really are,” Tony DiSanto, president of programming for MTV, said in an e-mail release.
Each series follows five students “as they tear down the walls that divide them through a transformative one-day program,” he said.
The Diversity Task Force of Paris brought Challenge Day to PHS in the fall of 2009. At that time 300 students experienced the program.
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