As the school year kicks off, Sewanhaka and Floral Park-Bellerose school board members and administrators are looking to quickly fix an issue that’s leaving young students with unexpectedly long, unsupervised walks to and from school, including crossing busy Jericho Turnpike.
New bus routes mean some children who previously were, or thought they would be, served by buses are not. Parents raised the alarm over the issue at Sewanhaka’s late August meeting, where one said he was concerned for his new seventh grader’s roughly 1.6-mile walk, as she weighs only 60 pounds and is 4’8”.
