GAINESVILLE — 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…