South senior raises thousands to support arts education

As a child, Kaylee Schulte could barely contain her excitement when an exhibit of Claude Monet’s paintings came to the gallery near her home outside Jackson, Mississippi.

Schulte, then no older than 6, said a security guard doubled over laughing at the sight of a child barely out of preschool exclaiming, “Finally, real art!”

Now a senior at South Salem High School, Schulte decided to focus her senior project on giving more Salem kids a…