<P> In 2013, a student from the school was featured in the Al Jazeera America documentary series Edge of Eighteen . He appears in episodes 2 and 3: </P> <P> Episode 2: Maurice Massonburg lives on the west side of Chicago, which is often called "Chi - raq" due to the wave of gun violence sweeping across the city . Despite the distractions and bad influences in his neighborhood, Maurice attends a charter school (NLCP) committed to helping underprivileged students go to college . This doesn't reduce the mounting pressure he feels to become the first in his family to graduate from high school and attend college . </P> <P> Episode 3: Once a promising student Maurice Massonburg has all but abandoned his college dreams, resigning himself to the hard knocks of life on the west side of Chicago . Despite impassioned pleas from both his guidance counselor and mother, Maurice remains fixed to his downward spiral of smoking weed and slacking off at school . As graduation approaches, what will he decide to do? </P>

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