A 6-year-old was locked out of his Queens elementary school after recess by oblivious staffers, The Post has learned.
First-grader Yosef Alwakzeh was shut out of the PS 35 building in Hollis after staff overlooked him while calling in students from the schoolyard on Oct. 11, the boy’s outraged father, Nagi Alwakzeh, told The Post.
Hours later, a school security agent confided to Alwakzeh that a parent found Yosef wandering the streets alone before bringing him back to the 191st Street school, the father-of-seven said.
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“’They locked the door and I knocked on the door, I cried. Nobody opened the door,’” the boy told his father.
It is unclear how long Yosef was left outside or how far he strayed on the 68-degree day, but Alwakzeh said his child recalled seeing a ladder at one point. That led him to believe his son may have wandered less than 200 feet down 191st Street to the busy corner of Jamaica Avenue, where hardhats have been at work in recent weeks, he said.