AP News, August 25th, 2007
Since they're going to be the Class of 2015, we asked fifth-graders at the newly opened Langston Hughes Academy Charter School to tell us what their city will look like on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Their answers ran the gamut from hopeful to uncertain _ but all were in agreement on one thing. New Orleans does have a future. Here's a sampling:
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"In 2015 New Orleans will look new. All of the flooded buildings will be rebuild. New Orleans will be bigger. They will have new schools and new parks. ... Many of the houses will be raised so the won't flood again."
_Jozeff Lee, 10, who is still waiting to return to his New Orleans East home.
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"New Orleans will look like they never had a storm. ... The roads will be smooth as a whistle. The houses will never rotten. the houses will never fall. ... The fire station will be fixed, the police envestigation system will be fixed, the hospitals will be fixed too."
_Ferlin Carr, 10, who lives in the 9th Ward.
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"There would be a new and better mayor, that would make sure that we all are safe and protected. All our tourist atrakions would have more people visiting them."
Kayla Brissette, age 10, New Orleans East.
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"In two thousand fifteen there will be a prison break out. The sun will start to die. The artic will start to melt. ... In two thousand fifteen I will be working on my degree in forinsic science. In New Orleans you will see all the rebuilding in our city."
_Damon Brumfield Jr., 10, New Orleans East.
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"It will be crime free. Cars will use cooking oil to fly. All of the 5th graeders in school now will be in college of their choose. Hopefully their would be a cure for AIDS."
_Alexas Brittany Jones-Guss, 10, Gentilly.
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"New Orleans will look like a wounderful place to be in it will have Spanisha, Black and white ... New Orleans will be the place to live every one getting along no one hitting people it will be as good as possible."
_Arnecteria McPherson, 10, Uptown.
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"We need a president that Just won't help some people and Then just go on a vacatioin. He/She needs to help everyone."
_Jere Lang, 10, 10th Ward.
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"When it's 2015, I think New Orleans will be calm. And There will not be so much Killing and Violence."
_Jasmine Dansey, 10, 6th Ward.
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"Everything is going to be up agin. No shooting and no Fighting. We are going to respect all people Ideas. ... I' am going to be a star And play for Saitis (the Saints)."
_Gregory Austin Jr., 10, Treme.
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"Sky scrapers will be high and all over the city. The streets will never clear and will never be silent."
_Aaren Thompson, 10, Gentilly.
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"I believe in 2015 New Orleans would be better than what it is today. Lots of schools will be open, businesses would be open and homes would be rebuild. Peoples lives will continue.... Lots of people think we can't be joyful or rebuild. We can do what helps this city. This city alway's be here. Terrorist and Hurricanes they can't steal our joy and our pride."
_Desmond Barthelemy, 10, New Orleans East.
