Are we suspending too many students, or too few? As I write today, the answer seems to vary depending if your vantage point is the classroom or the hearing room. In a guest column, a business consultant says today’s young adults are adept at communicating on social media, but less so in the workplace where brevity and breeziness does not work as well. And readers sound off on a proposal by the governor to put failing schools under state control similar to programs in place in Tennessee and Louisiana.

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Rose Scott signals as Closer Look goes on air in the WABE studio. An Atlanta resident left WABE a $3 million donation, a boost after WABE lost $1.9 million in annual funding from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. (Ben Gray / AJC file)

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