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to the learning house on a separate
bus, according to Smith, who added
that her son fell asleep and slipped under
a bus seat by the time the group
returned to the school at some point
between 1:30 p.m. and 1:45 p.m.
When Everett woke up a few minutes
later, the bus was parked and
empty except for the driver, according
to Smith, who said that her scared student
didn’t know where he was. The
bus driver then contacted the school at
around 2:10 p.m., and a teacher trekked
to the bus and rode back to the school
with the boy, according to Smith.
The worried mother fi nally spoke
to the youngster by phone at around
2:30 p.m., when she called the school
to inquire about where he was after a
friend with a contact in the school had
texted Smith to tell her that her son
was missing, she said, adding that offi
cials never contacted her to tell her
what had happened.
The friend who contacted Smith,
Toya Boyd, confi rmed details of
Smith’s account of the incident.
Department of Education spokeswoman
Miranda Barbot confi rmed in
a statement that honchos were investigating
the incident, and that they
would discipline school offi cials if
necessary.
“Safety always comes fi rst, and
this serious allegation was reported
and is under investigation,” Barbot
said. “We will take any necessary
follow-up action.”
Smith claimed a rep from the superintendent’s
offi ce of the local District
21 told her that offi cials were
specifi cally investigating a teacher at
the school and one of its two assistant
principals — both of whom were allegedly
on the fi eld trip — but Barbot said
she could not reveal who specifi cally
was under investigation.
BUS ROUTES
Surf Avenue street-raising project —
which has prevented the buses from
taking their normal routes down the
avenue since it started last September
— and the shorter-term drainage and
electrical wiring project in the middle
of the street.
Locals charged that the combination
of the projects made Surf Avenue
and W. 22nd Street a dangerous intersection
by dramatically narrowing
the roadway, prompting a school bus
to crash into a wooden barrier at the
site of the drainage work last month
and other drivers to speed over the
sidewalk and around the corner with
no regard for pedestrians.
The switched routes took effect
on April 8, according to Community
Board 13 district manager Eddie
Mark, and will last for a few weeks
until the drainage and electrical wiring
project is complete, at which point
ALL BY HIMSELF: City offi cials are investigating
an allegation that honchos at PS
329 in Coney Island left 8-year-old disabled
student Blake Everett, pictured, alone on a
school bus last week after he fell asleep —
and failed to inform his mother about what
happened. Jennifer Smith
the buses will resume their detoured
routes down W. 22nd Street until the
street-raising project fi nishes up and
Surf Avenue fully re-opens on May 15,
when the buses will resume their normal
routes down Surf Avenue.
Transportation agency spokeswoman
Alana Morales said offi cials
were not making any other traffi c
changes to accommodate the construction
work — even though a rep for the
agency last month told this paper that
offi cials would seek approval from
the transit agency to add a pedestrian
traffi c manager to help locals safely
cross the street at W. 22nd Street, take
away four parking spots on W. 24th
Street to allow the buses to turn from
Surf Avenue onto the street, and move
back a Mermaid Avenue stop line near
W. 24th Street to allow the B36 bus to
have enough room to turn onto the
avenue.
MTA spokeswoman Amanda Kwan
said the agency hung up signs alerting
locals of the change at both W. 22nd
Street and W. 24th Street.
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Barbot did not reply to multiple inquiries
seeking more information on
the department’s protocol for handling
incidents of missing students.
Smith said she transferred Everett
and his twin brother, Bryce, out of
the school and into nearby PS 188 following
the incident. But she said that
she won’t feel at peace until there’s a
change of leadership at PS 329, and
blasted the school’s honchos for failing
to make sure Everett’s aide was by his
side at all times on the trip and failing
to tell her what had happened when
they discovered he was missing.
“I don’t think they should be allowed
to be watching over children
— it seemed like they didn’t take it seriously,”
Smith said. “It’s like it was
being swept underneath the rug, like
they didn’t want me to know.”
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