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It was January of 2006, not long after Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters swallowed her home in the Lower 9th Ward, when the news reached Gwendolyn Adams by word of mouth: after nearly three decades of teaching, she'd been dismissed along with 7,500 other Orleans Parish public school system employees. She never got a severance package or a hearing with a union rep. Just the axe. 'They had thrown us away like last week's trash,' Adams said. 'People who had given 30, 40 years of their lives.' |
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by GLloyd Rowsey on Tuesday, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:09:12 AM