Pupils back to school in New Orleans

From: China Daily | Date: October 5, 2005 | Copyright information

NEW ORLEANS, United States: Students returned to New Orleans' classrooms on Monday as the storm-crippled city continued limping back to life.

Educators hoped that thousands of students would show up for classes in the opened districts.

"Today will be a counselling day, a comforting day, for children," said Diane Roussel, superintendent of public schools in the Jefferson Parish neighborhood. "It has been an early morning, and a hectic one."

Roussel expected less than half the district's student body of 52,000 children to show up for classes on Monday.

Schools remained closed in downtown New ...

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