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Article: Hurricane Katrina one year later: for many kids in New Orleans, the storm is not over.(America & Your World Today)
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- Junior Scholastic
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- September 4, 2006
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Antoine Evans, 13, recalls the good times--before Hurricane Katrina struck. "On Fridays," he says, "when we got out of school, our parents used to be waiting outside for us. We would go to the movies and go out to eat and stuff. [Now] there's nowhere to go."
Antoine is a seventh-grader at the James Singleton Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana. He and his classmates are back home after months spent in other cities. They seem almost numb as they describe the state of their hometown. Gutted houses, abandoned cars, and mounds of debris are everywhere.
"Katrina destroyed my house," says Jaltheus Gross, 12. "The streets around my house still have ...