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Parents, advocates tell Riverhead board students with disabilities may be unsafe on buses; board offered no immediate remedy
Summary
Two speakers raised concerns about how students with disabilities are secured on buses, reporting missing equipment, improper attachment of vests and pre-K students transported with lap belts. Speakers asked the board to investigate and form a committee; the board did not announce immediate action.
At the June 24 Riverhead Central School District Board of Education meeting, two public speakers raised safety concerns about securement and restraint of students with disabilities on district transportation and asked the board to investigate.
Eva Roberts, who identified herself as a Riverhead resident, told the board she had repeatedly raised concerns about “correct or incorrect securement” of students on buses and referenced a recent incident in another state in which a 6-year-old girl died on a school bus. Roberts said she has identified multiple areas of concern,…
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