Mobile buildings were later erected on the site as a temporary school was built.
Others have been absent for two weeks or more because of severe damage to school buildings and problems getting transportation to their temporary school locations.
So the city agreed to send coach buses to Rockaway Park to take the students to and from their temporary school.
But some parents predicted that even a temporary school assignment, no matter how unfamiliar, would help their children put the events of this week behind them.
In the month of February, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology will set up a temporary school in the Wiesner Gallery, Student Center (W20).
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology graduate students will set up a temporary school as an intervention into the nested ecosystem of education at MIT.
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology graduate students set up a temporary school as an intervention into the nested ecosystem of education at MIT.
"It's a happy day," Monica Mihajlovic, who is working to rebuild her family home, said before picking up her daughter Mia from her first day of second grade at a temporary school.
When Jodi Carse's two children climbed onto the yellow school bus yesterday morning at Fifth Avenue and 21st Street for a trip to their new temporary school, so did she.
Despite glowing recommendations from administrators at the middle school that he had attended, Shkelqim has shunned the temporary school offered to him during his suspension and has stopped attending classes altogether.
Having been evacuated from their school and relocated after Sept. 11 last year, the children were crammed into a temporary school and badly needed some time in open space, Ms. Lent said.
