Boy, 6, locked out of NYC school after recess, found wandering streets alone: outraged dad

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.“’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 said hardhats have been at work in recent weeks, he said.Alwakzeh said he didn’t hear from the school about his son’s disappearance until he picked him up that day at dismissal —  and only after a teacher asked him about the mishap.

“When something happens like this to any child, you should call the parents immediately,” he said.“And then you should call the ambulance to make sure the kid’s OK.”PS 35 apologized to Alwakzeh for the incident, although sources cast doubt on whether the child got out onto the street, with one noting there is construction equipment scattered around the building, including the school yard.

The boy’s ordeal isn’t the first time safety issues have rocked PS 35 in recent years.Two years ago, when the building had an early morning intruder alert, school leaders ordered staff to sweep the hallways for the potentially armed trespasser, even though cops had yet to arrive, sources said.The warning turned out to be a false alarm, but one teacher fumed that the school’s leadership put their colleagues lives on...