Reality Television Series Aims To Boost Understanding Among High School Students

The AP (7/27, Rancilio) reported that "If You Really Knew me," a new reality series on MTV, "attempts to help students look past school stereotypes." The show features a different school in each episode and follows students who "go through a program called Challenge Day. They share their experiences with each other in exercises designed to cut down on bullying and gossiping." Student Leiken Poppino said that after Challenge Day, her school "had a 'miraculous change' for about a week."