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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bianca Vzquez Toness

In juvenile detention, these students say they're not learning — and it's keeping them incarcerated

Education Juvenile Detention - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

To earn his freedom, 15-year-old Cayden Gillespie had to complete three school assignments a day. But school had gone virtual for Cayden and other incarcerated young people in Florida. And sometimes, he didn't understand it.

One day last summer, he kept failing an online pre-algebra test. There were too many words to read. He didn’t know how to find the value of x. And there were no math teachers to show him.

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