Kearns • Keevan Wilson was a straight-F student in junior high, someone who’d had runs in with police and a home life so unstable that he and his siblings were taken from their parents and placed in shelter care.
Wilson, a sophomore at Kearns High School, lives in a school district nested in one of Utah’s most ethnically and socioeconomically diverse communities. More than than 65 percent of students live below the poverty line and “a lot of these kids struggle,” said Granite Education Foundation Director Brent Severe.
“When he was taken from his family, the president of our league called us and told us that he wanted to talk to me more than anything,” Marcus Wilson said.