Georgetown providing ‘self-care suites’ for students on Election Day — complete with milk and cookies and coloring books
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Georgetown providing ‘self-care suites’ for students on Election Day — complete with milk and cookies and coloring books

ByNews Polite

Students at an elite DC university who are worried they may hear points of view they disagree with on Election Day are being offered “self-care suites’’ where they can sip hot cocoa until the scary stuff blows over. Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy — a crucible for our…

Logansport, IN students struggle after thousands of migrants moved in
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Logansport, IN students struggle after thousands of migrants moved in

ByNews Polite

LOGANSPORT, Indiana — Thousands of migrants from Haiti and dozens of other countries have arrived in this isolated Indiana city of 18,000 in just a few years. Furious residents say they no longer feel safe in the once sleepy downtown, and their kids are being muscled out of the schools…

NY State Ed’s pathetic response to rising chronic absenteeism in schools: We’ll stop tracking it
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NY State Ed’s pathetic response to rising chronic absenteeism in schools: We’ll stop tracking it

ByNews Polite

For years now, we’ve been slamming the State Education Department and its rulers, the state Board of Regents, as having turned against anything resembling excellence, but we’re still shocked at SED’s latest move. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli just issued a blaring alarm about how truancy soared in New York schools…

School bus catches fire outside Bangkok and 25 on board are feared dead, government officials say
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School bus catches fire outside Bangkok and 25 on board are feared dead, government officials say

ByNews Polite

A bus carrying young students with their teachers caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday with 25 of those on board feared dead, according to officials and rescuers. The bus was carrying 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province to Ayutthaya for a school trip when the fire started around…

Virginia Sweet Briar College bans transgender women from admission based on founder’s will from 1900
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Virginia Sweet Briar College bans transgender women from admission based on founder’s will from 1900

ByNews Polite

Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year, making the school an outlier among the nation’s diminishing number of women’s colleges. The private women’s liberal arts school said the policy stems from the legally binding will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams,…

Oklahoma college students suspect they were drugged after ordering water at Cancun resort during vacation to Mexico
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Oklahoma college students suspect they were drugged after ordering water at Cancun resort during vacation to Mexico

ByNews Polite

Two Oklahoma college students’ dream vacation to Mexico quickly shifted into a nightmare when they fell violently ill from water at a resort bar as doctors feared they may have been laced with a dangerous substance. Kaylie Pitze and Zara Hull arrived in Cancun last Thursday to enjoy a planned…