In this article, the author reports what the administrators and educators in Bay St. Louis-Waveland, the last district in Mississippi to reopen following Hurricane Katrina, are doing in order to keep their students in school after Hurricane Katrina. Students in this district attend classes in portable classrooms linked by wooden boardwalks that cover the muddy terrain. Because students missed 47 days of school after Katrina struck, the district abandoned block schedules in favor of a six-period day that will help seniors meet the instructional time required by the state to ensure that they graduate on time. The state has also allowed the district to delay administering state tests by a week this spring.