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Parents: We had petition to ax crossing guard

School crossing guard Flavia Roman was so often absent from her East Harlem post that angry parents claimed to have organized a petition to have her fired.

But despite their desperate complaints, the woman again didn’t show up for work on Thursday morning — and a 6-year-old boy was fatally struck while she was absent.

“We have been complaining to the school for three or four years about her,” said Tara French, 41, who has two children at PS 155, where tragic little Amar Diarrassouba was headed when he was run over by a truck.

French said Roman was seldom standing at the intersection of First Avenue and East 117th Street when her shift began at 7:30 a.m.

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Like other days in the past, “I was here at 7:35 a.m. [Thursday], and she was not here,” French noted.

The NYPD, which employs Roman, and a Department of Education spokeswoman both said there were no records of any complaints against her.

But the furious parents said they called 311, and allegedly spoke to the school’s safety agent and school officials about the guard, but “the school says it’s not their responsibility, that we need to talk to the NYPD and sign a petition,” she claimed.

Another mom, Lydia Soto, 39, alleges that in 2010 she and a dozen local parents signed a petition calling for Roman’s ouster. They also allegedly made an official complaint to the 25th Precinct.

Soto also alerted PS 155 to the problem, she said.

Instead of manning the post, Soto said Roman is “always in the restaurant” — La Cabana — near the crosswalk. “She’s never out here,” Soto said.

Yasmin Neil, 36, and her husband Robert, 49, walk their two daughters to school every day.

“I’ve lived here two years and I never knew there was a crossing guard there,” said Yasmin.

Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli, Yoav Gonen and Jamie Schram