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I'm a single mother of three. it was hard with a teenager boy, but he had it together. >> see y'all. >> lee never made it to college. >> lee fell off the radar. that's very concerning. when you start to name off the kids that have graduated that didn't the get off to college, you take off the names of different kids that have passed away. >> lee mccallum. >> we had a lot built around lee. he was attached to us. he graduated and we have the safety net of him being in the school but he's never fallen off the radar and no one knows what the heck happened to him. ♪

Your goals, your hopes, your dreams, your aspirations. fundamentally it's the experiences we have had, the places we have been. the things we have seen, the people we have been around and experiences give us the language of our dreams. >> you have to be able to envision a different life for yourself, right, to know what's out there, to know what's going on downtown in order to know what you want to work for. >> first lady michelle obama shares her story to encourage promising young students. >> like yourself, i come from a modest background. i was raised in subsidized housing on chicago's sout...

>> offender -- a program run by robert spicer has had an impact in my role is to support you, to work with you. i'm here. >> thanks to budget cuts, the school could lose that program and spicer could be out of a job. >> we need to stay the course on using these practices and holding everybody accountable to what we say we are going to do as a school community. >> even though we don't have as much there's things we could do there's always hope. >> mr. spicer, come in mr. spicer. >> liz is organizing a fund-raiser that could safe the programs. >> this is liz. i'm looking in to the 501(c)(3) as w...