One city school-bus driver believes in free-range parenting — for other people’s kids.
Shlyoma Reybat lost his permit for allowing his elementary-age passengers out to run wild in a Brooklyn playground — and is now suing to get his old job back.
A teacher at Bushwick’s PS 151 had confronted Reyblat after seeing his charges, including students he’d already picked up from nearby schools, playing in the school’s yard in June.
Reyblat was at the school to pick up some other kids at the time.
“He stated he was letting the children play in the yard because their parents do not let them out,” an investigator wrote in a report. “He stated that they have not gotten hurt yet, and he has done this before.”
Reyblat said at his disciplinary hearing that he lets the kids out because he was told not to leave them alone but “can’t control” the “wild children.”
His lawyers are arguing that the Department of Education did a shoddy job of investigating and wasn’t clear on what rule he broke.