There is a joke in that headline somewhere.
I was born and raised in New Orleans. Granted, that was in the 50's and 60's. While I wouldn't send my kids to public school there today, I and most of my friends went to public school. The vast majority of my friends are college graduates. Some with advanced degrees. Most have left, including me, but we're all still New Orleanians at heart. You can never really leave no matter how far you move away. I realize that New Orleans has a very bad reputation, but it wasn't always that way.