Emilee Boster, left, and Ty Bragwell help Lady Liberty to compare how large the Statue of Liberty is in real life. | Brent Maze

Lady Liberty leads ‘next great Americans’ at Hartselle Intermediate School

Lady Liberty left her perch on Liberty Island in New York Harbor to encourage the students at Hartselle Intermediate School to become a generation of the next great Americans.

The program entitled “Lady Liberty Live,” which is sponsored by the Liberty Learning Foundation, kicked a 12-week program at Hartselle Intermediate School that will teach, inspire and empower the students to become a super citizen, according to spokeswoman Barbara Sumner.

“As Lady Liberty informed the kids, it’s a huge responsibility to hold the title of U.S. citizen,” Sumner said. “This 12-week curriculum teaches them what it means to be a citizen.”

Sumner said the program, which is based out of Huntsville, has been in existence for two years now. In 2012, they were in 220 schools. That number has grown to more than 650 schools in 2013.

The program is being sponsored locally by Regions Bank.

The three pillars that the students learn about include character education, financial literacy and career development.

“Our goal is to help the students to truly become the next great Americans,” Sumner said.

Also, the students will be participating in “torch teams,” which will select a super citizen in the community and raise enough money to give him or her a replica of the Statue of Liberty.

During the curriculum, the students learned the program’s theme song and the hand motions that went with the song