Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember (Harvest Original)

ISBN: 0156031892

Author: Tisserand, Michael

Condition: New

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, taking lives and livelihoods and displacing thousands. Because the hurricane struck at the beginning of the school year, the citys children were among those most affected. Michael Tisserand, former editor of the alternative cultural newspaper Gambit Weekly, evacuated with his family to New Iberia, Louisiana. Then, rather than waiting to find out when-or if-schools in New Orleans would reopen, Tisserand and other parents persuaded one of his childrens teachers, Paul Reynaud, to start a school among the sugarcane fields.So was born the Sugarcane Academy-as the children themselves named it-and so also began an experience none of Reynauds pupils will ever forget. This inspiring book shows how a dedicated teacher made the best out of the worst situation, and how the children of New Orleans, of all backgrounds and races, adjusted to Katrinas consequences.