MB reader David H. alerts us to this AP story about the selling of New Orleans school buses on Ebay. According to the AP:

Starved for cash, the New Orleans school district is taking a long shot and hoping to sell its flooded, unsalvageable school buses on eBay.
Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed in the days after Hurricane Katrina and have become an icon of the city’s devastated school system.

An icon of the city’s devastated school system? I seem to recall that photo being symbolic of something else:

As I recall, the photo became symbolic of how the state and local governments of New Orleans failed to evacuate the city before the hurricane hit. Is the AP trying to rewrite history?