Back to School in New Orleans?

CNN celebrated the re-opening of the first public school in New Orleans on November 28th. In a throw-away line, the secular cable operation says "some private schools opened in October."

Point of fact: my daughter attends an Episcopal school which takes boarders. Several girls from Catholic parochial schools showed up in Boca a week after the hurricane and boarded for three weeks, then returned to NO when their school opened the last week of September.

What this says about the local public education system in New Orleans, already a huge problem, is predictable.

CNN's assertion in saying that "some private schools opened in October" may be true, but at least one Catholic parochial school re-opened in September. Sloppy reporting, as we are accustomed to from this operation.

And for CNN to not put some sort of a spotlight on how rapidly private schools were able to re-open appears to be just another sign of secular, or perhaps pro-public sector, bias.