Picking Up the Pieces
A school devastated by Hurricane Katrina reopens—but for teachers, the real work is just beginning.
As Jo-Ann Ordoyne takes roll in her 11th grade American history class, about half the names she calls out are greeted with silence.
“Fernando?” says Ordoyne, a teacher at Bonnabel High School in Kenner, Louisiana, for 33 years. “Anybody hear from Fernando?”
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