Renee Good. Alex Pretti. Liam Romas. Luis Cáceres.
All these names aren’t even close to a handful of many lives impacted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - lives that may seem far away from Oswego, but whose impacts...
In a national climate where the government leaders support masked ICE agents dragging down teachers in schools and out of cars on streets, one might imagine that the climate for civility and equality in schools would be equally as bleak. Turns out, that is in fact the opposite for the civility of Oswego High School students.
According to the 2025 OH Panorama student survey, completed by 81% of the student body, 71% of students responded that they “got along very well” or “got along extremely well” in “the past two weeks with students who are different” from them, which was up one percent point from fall of 2024.
Way more people of different backgrounds, with different beliefs, are getting along.
If you ask OH students, they’ll tell you that they have never seen the school’s menstrual product dispensers stocked. While locations like the nurse’s office have free, available menstrual products for students, students do not have access to these necessary products in the school bathrooms.
According to the Illinois General Assembly, “[[M]]enstrual hygiene products shall be made available in bathrooms of every school building that are open for student use in grades 4 through 12 during the regular school day,” and “school district[[s]] shall make menstrual (rather than feminine) hygiene products available, at no cost to students.”
Although OH attendance has improved from last year, chronic absenteeism is still far above the national and IL state averages. This attendance issue has left many counselors, parents, and administrators uncertain about how to encourage students to come to school.
According to the Illinois School Report Card, OH's chronic absenteeism percentage (the percentage of students who miss five percent or more of school days per year either with or without a valid excuse) dropped from 37.8% to 30.9%.
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