In the back of the cafeteria at Ben Franklin Elementary, as New Orleans public school officials celebrated the reopening of the first district school since Katrina, it was a day of little joy for kindergartener Tyler Felix.
The 5-year-old, a Franklin student before the storm, arrived Monday in a red polo shirt with the school insignia to face a jarring reality that left him dabbing away tears with a powder blue tissue. "Not one single member of his class returned," said his mother, Elise, adding that his teacher also would not be back. "He was kind of upset."
Across the river at Edna Karr, a recently chartered secondary school in Algiers that began registration Monday, senior Ryaunte Richard, the school's class president before Katrina, wondered if anything will be the same there when classes start Dec. 14. [Read more - NOLA]
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