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- Title: Lessons: Katrina and Beginning Anew (Education and School Reform, Hurricane Katrina)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 187 KB
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New Orleans, fondly known in better days for its spectacular cuisine, cool jazz, and good times, was the leading story on television news broadcasts the world over when a massive hurricane came barreling in this past August. As Katrina took its destructive path, culminating in the devastating rupture of ill-prepared levee systems, the world was riveted by stories about the thousands of citizens huddled in the Superdome, in the convention center, and on a major New Orleans overpass. A combination of no food, no water, and masses of people created the perfect recipe for chaos and unmerciful, undeserved death, increasing the tribulations of an al ready largely poor, marginalized population. The world, especially the rest of America, was witnessing a living nightmare. "This cannot be," "Unbelievable," "Surreal"--these were the reactions coming to the fore. This was not a bad natural disaster flick; it was real. The devastation, shattered lives, lost dreams, obliterated property, and hundreds of deaths will draw a clear delineation in the annals of Louisiana history with the reference point of before Katrina (BK) and after Katrina (AK). On a larger scale, America had a wake-up call. We saw an America that many of us heretofore chose not to see or acknowledge. The most vulnerable members of society were no longer mere statistics, which sometimes have a strange way of desensitizing us to the reality represented by the numbers. However, in an ironic twist of fate, Katrina brought voice to the voiceless. And all of America heard. The infirm, the elderly, and countless children, mostly black, entered our living rooms, stirring a myriad of emotions along with a belated realization about the gravity of the problem. "How can this be happening in America?," we asked. From economic, sociological, engineering, theological, and multiple other perspectives, analysis of what Katrina exposed will continue for years to come. And certainly, the issue and role of education will be a huge part of the conversation.