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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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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