New Orleans West School Principal Gary Robicheaux says making the evacuee children feel at home is part of the goal.

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She's back at work after a month as an evacuee.

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Ms. DIONNE THOMPSON (Evacuee): Comfortable place to lay your head, roof over your head, but it's starting to wear out, and I've been here seven and a half weeks.

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Mr. NATHAN TOUPES(ph) (Evacuee): There's nothing he can say.

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Never mind the WWII-style evacuee dress we've also just had to buy for the class assembly - I remember going to school wrapped in an old dust sheet to be a shepherd.

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Ms. BETSY BALDER (Evacuee): This is Waveland, Mississippi.

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Ms. KATHY PINN (Evacuee): Oh, my God!

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