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Queens kindergartner Hector Ramsammy forced to roam hallways due to school overcrowding

Queens kindergartner Hector Ramsammy forced to roam hallways due to school overcrowding

Queens kindergartner Hector Ramsammy forced to roam hallways due to school overcrowding

Thursday, September 30th 2010, 4:00 AM

'They have me walking around the hallway,' kindergartner Hector Ramsammy told his mom of his ordeal at school.
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'They have me walking around the hallway,' kindergartner Hector Ramsammy told his mom of his ordeal at school.

A Queens kindergartner was stuck walking the halls after his school's attempts to prevent overcrowding left him without a classroom, his mom said.

Hector Ramsammy's mom fought the Public School 95 principal for two weeks to get her son a seat in his zoned school, where his sister and two brothers go.

After a vicious battle - during which staffers called the Administration for Children's Services on Hector's mom for abandoning him at the school - officials agreed to enroll Hector.

Then they left him to sit alone with a teacher all day and walk the halls with the staffer during lunch.

"They have me walking around the hallway. They have me walking, Mommy," Hector, 5, told his mother, Nadia Ramsammy, 40, of



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