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Are some U.S. school discipline policies too punitive?
From Wednesday's PBS NewsHour: The Education and Justice Departments released new guidelines on school discipline, urging schools to ensure that punishments comply with civil rights laws. Hari Sreenivasan gets debate on the recommendations from Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Chester Finn of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Transcript
(Sherrilyn Ifill is Gwen Ifill's cousin.)
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Then again, it is a punitive society. The kids might as well learn it early. 
