Leah Hampton, an eighth grader at Falling Creek Middle School in Virginia, likes to joke that without her friends, she'd sleep through school. Seeing them was "the best part of the day," she said. "They woke me up before my classes." Her mother, Leomia Hampton, says that after classes went online in mid-March, that wasn't far from the truth. "It's very difficult to keep her motivated, very difficult to even keep her awake," she said of working with her daughter at home.
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