DAD’S AGONY, ANGER

Son hurt at school

Franklin Diaz waited and waited outside JHS/MS 80 in The Bronx for his sixthgrade son, who didn’t come out. He stood there for 15 minutes until another exiting student told him why:

“He’s upstairs,” the kid told him, “He’s laid out on the floor, and it looks like he’s dead.”

The shocked dad rushed into the Mosholu Parkway school, where an office aide phoned upstairs. Then she told him to wait while someone came down to escort him upstairs.

When Diaz finally got up to the fifth-floor gym, he said, his son was sprawled on the floor, barely conscious, with teachers and students standing over him.

“He was in a daze,” the dad said. “He didn’t even know where he was.”

The father spoke last week — three months after his son’s Nov. 22 injury, which occurred during the after-school program.

The Post reported last month that two eighth-graders at the troubled Renewal school lifted the younger kid and dropped him on his head, causing him to pass out and convulse, according to whistle-blowers. The school did not call 911. Principal Emmanuel Po- lanco allegedly ordered two deans to force the older kids and a teacher who witnessed the assault to call it an accident in written statements, a whistle-blower said. The whistle-blower reported the events to the FBI.

When he found his son on the floor, Diaz said he asked whether anyone had called an ambulance. Yes, he was told, but doubted that because it took another 20 minutes for paramedics from Montefiore Hospital — a block away — to arrive.

School staffers told Diaz his son “fell on the back of his neck,” he said.

Nobody could explain how it happened. “They all had their backs turned, but they said it was an accident,” he recalled.

Diaz, who spoke to The Post in Spanish, is angry that the school didn’t call him immediately when his son was hurt.

In December, the dad took him to a specialist who said the boy was still suffering from the fall. His son can’t remember what happened, Diaz said. The Post is withholding the boy’s name.

A DOE spokesman said only, “There’s an active and ongoing investigation and we’ll ensure any necessary follow-up action is taken.”

Diaz said no one has contacted him about it.