Two educators offer thoughtful essays today on how best to help children learn about themselves and the world. An Emory professor warns that extending zero tolerance policies to verbal expression has muffled children’s freedom of speech because they have only two options: silence, or saying what they are told. A longtime Georgia teacher talks about the differences in how he accesses information and how his young sons do and the lessons for the classroom. And readers sound off on a controversial Christian monument erected at a public high school and whether it ought to be removed.
