Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people of…

Toni Morrison
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Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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