LAWRENCE
Aaron Barnett first remembers seeing the new kid in his study hall class. He was big and sort of burly, a thick-framed sophomore who had arrived from Colorado. The kid was 6 feet 2 then. Maybe weighed 235 pounds. And for Barnett, a head high school football coach, it was the kind of thing you don’t miss.
You might say Will Smith walked into the right class.
It was the spring of 2010, the second semester at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, and Smith was a transplant from Fort Collins, Colo., who showed up late in the school year.