Young, inexperienced teachers recruited to New Orleans

Greg Toppo:

Amid the tag-team commotion of three new teachers prepping a science class for summer school finals one recent morning, one teacher sits alongside a student for what seems an eternity.

The exchange is perfectly ordinary, except that in post-Katrina New Orleans, little is ordinary.

The student, a young mother forced to move four times in the 15 months after the storm, is 20 years old.

Her teacher is 22.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 12, 2008 2:11 AM
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