Students, Schools, and Restrooms
A recent study from the education industry illuminates perspectives about using public restrooms. The APPA Center for Facilities Research, the leading association for educational facilities professionals, along with ISSA, the worldwide cleaning association, wanted to know how students ranked their schools' restrooms and if the areas' cleanliness (or lack thereof) impacted students' feelings toward the schools and their academic achievement.
The associations surveyed 1,500 students at five key U.S. universities. They asked respondents to rank their schools' restrooms using five levels of cleanliness:
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Damaging storms have recently affected several areas of Western New York, and the result has been flooded roads, homes, and buildings.
In Eden - a small community located about 20 miles south of Buffalo - as much as four inches of rain was pouring per hour, causing floods throughout the small city.
This resulted in flooding of halls and classrooms in at least one of the Eden Central School System public schools.
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If you knew what most soap was made of, you might have second thoughts about ever using it. Traditionally, the main ingredients in soap were alkali and animal fat, and years ago manufacturers got the fat right from slaughterhouses. When mixed with water, the fat and alkali combine to break dirt away from surfaces.
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