Isabela Humphrey for NPR
Jadon Howard, 15, used to spend a lot of time secretly on his phone during class.
“And last year, I had a whole bunch of missing assignments,” says Jadon, a sophomore at Beech Grove High School near Indianapolis.
His mom, Erin Franklin, says her son could easily be a good student, but “he wasn’t giving his all in school and his all in sports — it was all about electronics, and that’s really all he cared about.”
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