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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Mathew Palmer, a former Delta Air Lines employee, at his home in Atlanta on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.  Palmer was fired less than two weeks after writing a post on social media about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (Natrice Miller/AJC)