The state of Georgia has done a great deal in recent years to make the juvenile system more humane and more effective, but that work is incomplete until we stop putting high school students in adult jails for making childish mistakes.
As a member of the Atlanta Board of Education and a former middle-school teacher in Texas, I am acutely aware of the damage that can be done if we treat high school students as adults. In jail, the only advice they’ll get is from the adult prisoner next to them. We must do better than that.
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