It's not just a matter of devastated schools and those impoverished families going without supplies and various resources (missing critical bootstraps) it's also about said schools and children having little hope. This latter point can't be dismissed. Both points are critical.
I have worked in many areas over a period of years where supplies are absent and that leads to greater despair.
Early on in our work in New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina, I spent a good deal of time talking with the Principal of Benjamin Banneker Elementary regarding her inability to get the schools kitchen up and running. Absent an oven and other resources she was concerned that the children wouldn't get properly fed. Absent a useful kitchen one can't have students come back to class.
This is but one example of hundreds, no thousands, of missing bootstrap.
Dick
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