A Queens mom says a principal should pay for letting her kindergartner walk home alone from school last year.
Michelle Baylor is suing the city and Principal Anne Cohen for dismissing son Jaylen Bookman from Public School 147 without checking to see if someone was around to pick him up.
Jaylen, then 4 years old, walked two blocks to his Cambria Heights home, where his grandfather spotted him standing outside.
"He
got upset because he saw that I was upset," Baylor said. "It was really a frightening experience."
Baylor, 41, says she arrived at the school around 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2009, to find Jaylen wasn't there. She searched the school with an assistant principal.
"I asked her where he was, and she started to look panicked," Baylor said.
About 15 minutes later, she got a call from home saying Jaylen was there.
The next day, Baylor confronted Cohen and says she was told there aren't enough teachers to monitor dismissal.
"She started talking to me about budget cuts, and I just wasn't interested in hearing that," Baylor said.
Baylor's lawyer, James Ray, says the city Department of Education and officials at the Cambria Heights school were negligent. A lawsuit filed in Queens Supreme Court asks for unspecified damages.
School officials declined to comment on the pending litigation.
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