EMPOWERING RESPECT
Who are we
We belong to are the Knight of Students, also known as the KOS , a nonprofit organization that aims to solve students’ problems in and out of school, such as school bullying and family pressures, including economical and immigrant problems. Our final destination is to create a supportive and energetic community for students to grow up with peace of mind.
OUR MISSION
Our Mission: Knights of Students (KOS) is a non-profit organization that was established in 2023 with a goal to addressing the pressing immigration issues that students encounter in today's rapidly evolving society. The organization was founded by Andrew Yang, MingYuan Shan, Alex Zhang, and Howard Lu, individuals who were moved by the escalating challenges faced by students in their academic and personal lives.
The core ethos of KOS revolves around the belief that every student deserves respect and equitable treatment, that empowerment is key to overcoming obstacles, that inclusivity fosters a sense of belonging in a multicultural community, and that exploration and reflection are essential for personal growth and development. At KOS, we strive to create a nurturing and vibrant community where students can find solace and support in the face of school-related issues such as bullying, family pressures, economic hardships, and immigrant struggles.
OUR PROGRAMS
Core Value
The Human Conditions For Teenagers
Program 1
the ideological conflicts between teenagers and their parents in a first-generation immigrant family.
as one of the biggest immigrant countries in the world, the United States received millions of immigrants annually, which produced a lot of families consisting of “foreign” parents and “American” children. However, the differences between life experiences, value, and culture will impose many pressure to the two sides of the family. For instance, those parents might came from regions that have a totally different culture than the “West”. Teenagers from East Asia family usually have to shoulder big expectation from their parents, teenagers from Muslim, especially girls, cannot bear those old religious habits, teenagers from East Europe might have to hide their true sexual orientation due to the conservative value from their parents.... Meanwhile, the problems that the average American families are going through also bother the immigrant family, but cultural conflicts might enlarge the “gap”.
Program 11
The Underestimated Cyber Bullying.
As one of the most popular topics concerned with teenagers, bullying in the real life is very different from what we have received from TV: beating, locking you in the locker, foisting your head into the toilet, throwing garbage in your lunch.... Those things are definitely happening, but, as policies prohibiting bullying behaviors are enforced strictly recently, the implicit bullying occur more frequently. Cyber bullying is an appropriate example. Internet, as a huge platform provide many convenience for people to release their negative emotions. The virtual identity provided by the internet help users undermine the realistic influence; the convenience and freedom of expressing thoughts expand the populist; the compulsory and legal enforcement lack its effectiveness in terms of verbal and cyber bullying.