What the hail?
The mom of a 4-year-old cancer victim has been forced to shuttle the boy by taxi for nearly two weeks to his Staten Island preschool because bungling bureaucrats never scheduled him for a yellow bus, according to a report.
The transportation snafu nearly derailed Safwan Hassan’s first opportunity to spend time with other children now that he’s in remission after being in and out of the hospital since the age of 2.
But instead of keeping him home any longer, his mom, Afroza — who doesn’t drive — has been putting up $28 per day to get him to and from the Joan Ann Kennedy Memorial Pre-School in Concord.
“I feel so neglected,” his mother told NY1 TV news. “And especially my son, when I know that he is not like other children, but he’s supposed to get [busing] and he’s not getting it. It feels like we’re neglected.”
She added that Safwan isn’t able to talk yet because of his lengthy medical treatment.
“We want him to come to the school like regular children to get more help,” she said.
She says she’s been burdened with the payments and the huge inconvenience although she and the school have been asking the city Department of Education for a bus route since at least Aug. 20.
But department officials told The Post they didn’t get a request for busing service until last Thursday.
Reached by phone, Hassan, of Tompkinsville, declined to comment further.