Illinois

Ombudsman Alumni Story: Vince Hill (Proviso, Illinois)

October 21, 2011

Reading Past the Words Vince Hill (Proviso West, Class of 2009) was one of the first students enrolled at the newly opened Ombudsman center in Hillside in 2007. Vince returned to Proviso West for his senior year. “My goal was to finish, and not to get in trouble.” When asked about his transition back to [...]

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Proviso Center News – October 2011 (Proviso, Ill.)

October 12, 2011

Student Spotlight: Richard Evans This month we are speaking with Proviso West senior Richard Evans. OES: It’s always interesting to hear what you thought Ombudsman would be like before you enrolled. What was your perception? RE: I heard it was a computer school, but you do all the same work as Proviso West [High School]. [...]

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Student Spotlight: Kevin Manning (Bloomingdale, Ill.)

September 14, 2011

The following poem was written by Kevin Manning, a senior at our Bloomingdale learning center in Illinois. Kevin considered dropping out of school, but we are thankful he made the decision to give school another try and enrolled last spring. We are very proud of the work Kevin has done and this piece demonstrates both [...]

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Operation Graduation 2011 Essay: Kaliee McCarthy (Skokie, Ill.)

August 8, 2011

I look around at the kids who attend Ombudsman and I wonder what each of them did to get sent here. Each of us did something completely different or are here for very different reasons. But the one thing we all have in common is that, without Ombudsman, our dream of graduating from high school [...]

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Operation Graduation 2011 Essay: Ashley Miller (Downers Grove, Ill.)

August 7, 2011

Out of 1000 black teenage girls, 134 will become pregnant and only 34% will go on to finish high school or get a GED. I was determined not to fall into yet another statistics category. I didn’t finish my junior year and going to school for six to seven hours a day seemed impossible to [...]

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Operation Graduation 2011 Essay: Pasquale Fioccola (Mundelein, Ill.)

August 4, 2011

My name is Pasquale Fioccola and I am 17 years young. I live in Lindenhurst, Illinois and I have been an Ombudsman student for nearly three years as a private student. I chose to attend Ombudsman for many reasons. I began having troubles at my prior school attending classes or going to school. When I [...]

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Operation Graduation 2011 Essay: Ashanti McKnight (Matteson, Ill.)

August 3, 2011

Ombudsman was the best choice for me. In my freshman year of high school, I was very careless. I felt as if the transition from junior high to high school was much easier than I had expected. I began to take advantage of the situation and started behaving recklessly. I was then dropped from school [...]

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Operation Graduation 2011 Essay: Jeremy Klein (Mundelein, Ill.)

August 2, 2011

My name is Jeremy Klein and I am 17 years old. I live in Buffalo Grove, Illinois and my district school is Adali E. Stevenson. I chose to attend Ombudsman because I had trouble attending school at an early time, and my poor attendance was affecting my grades. It got to the point where when [...]

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Operation Graduation 2011 Essay: Jacob Webb (Mundelein, Ill.)

July 28, 2011

My name is Jacob Webb and I am 18 years old. I live in Illinois and my school district is 127, Grayslake High School. Ombudsman offered me not a last chance but a second chance. It taught me a lot of things not only about school but about life outside of school. I chose to [...]

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Operation Graduation 2011 Essay: Reggie Meadows (Downers Grove, Ill.)

July 23, 2011

If you’re a 19 year old high school drop-out, who had decent grades but didn’t apply yourself fully, like me, than you need to be at Ombudsman. Ombudsman is a place where you can succeed. We have three great teachers who are a great help personally and educationally. Ombudsman has really changed my life. If I never [...]

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