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Residents press board on middle-school bussing safety and financial literacy in curriculum
Summary
Two residents urged the board to restore a middle-school bus stop near Park Place and Beecher Avenue on safety grounds and pressed the district to expand financial literacy instruction. District staff said financial literacy units are now embedded in required economics courses and expanded at the middle school.
Two members of the public used the board's public-comment period at the Oct. 23 meeting to raise safety and curriculum concerns.
Mary Wilson, a resident at 9 New Jersey Avenue, told the board students in grades 6–8 who walk to East Islip Middle School must traverse a hazardous intersection at Park Place and Beecher Avenue and asked that the district restore a bus stop at Park Place and Beecher Avenue. Wilson said a district review previously found residences west of Carlton Avenue qualified for a child safety zone and that her address sits "a tenth of a…
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