What do the top teachers in the Atlanta Public Schools want management to know? I write about a recent workshop where many educators spoke candidly. Separately, with Thanksgiving upon us, we take up the question of healthy eating. To improve the eating habits of American students, many dangerously obese, the federal government has imposed controversial new standards for low-calorie, healthy school lunches. A Georgia school nutritionist endorses the standards, while readers share their views.

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Students line up after school for school buses at Sequoyah Middle School in Doraville on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. The school’s principal told teachers not to talk to students about ICE, and teachers and activists are pushing back. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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