I looked around George Lucas' website and decided to read the article When Calamity Invades the Classroom. The article describes how a seventh grade classroom in New Orleans participated in a press conference about saving the wetlands. Little did the teacher or the students know that their presentation on how high the water levels could rise if a hurricane occured because of the loss of so much wetland would actually happen a few months later. The article also describes that the amount of displaced students reached around 300,000. Neighboring states heave been helping in as many educational areas as possible including hiring teachers, enrolling displaced students, and side-stepping their own educational rules like a classroom size of 22 for each teacher.

My reaction to this article is shock. It is very hard to believe that only a few months later a groups of seventh graders, along with their teacher, predicted a hurricane. This also shows how real world issues relate to education and what is being taught in the classroom. Those students knew the importance of the wetlands and the consequences of not having much of them left. I did not know that there were that many displaced students from Louisiana and Mississippi. The fact that neighboring states were immediately stepping up to help in education shows the importance of keeping children educated and giving them a stable environment to grow in. I watched the news about the hurricane and the relief efforts, but I did not realize the enormous impact that was made on the educational system in Louisiana and Mississippi.