{"id":129723,"date":"2025-11-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/?p=129723"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:22:56","slug":"injured-aquebogue-student-gets-an-assist-from-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2025\/11\/129723\/injured-aquebogue-student-gets-an-assist-from-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Aquebogue Elementary staffers honored for helping injured student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When teacher\u00a0Paula Almonte\u00a0heard that one of her fourth-graders was seriously injured during a recess football game at <a href=\"https:\/\/riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com\/2023\/04\/115858\/aquebogue-elementary-school-science-fair-features-new-junior-scientists-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aquebogue Elementary School<\/a>, she hurried to his side and held his hand to keep him calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her quick thinking \u2014 along with that of school nurse Dawn Carrera, security guard Tarrence Laird and school resource officer Kaley Castantine \u2014 helped ensure the boy got the care he needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four staff members were honored by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverhead.net\/board-of-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Riverhead Board of Education<\/a> at its Oct. 23 meeting for their response to the emergency during the two-hand touch football game. The unidentified boy&#8217;s injury was not revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn those moments, you see real heroism and people doing great work for our kids and really care for our children. And, you know, I received notification that there was a situation in Aquebogue, and it was handled as they were telling me about it. It was already done,\u201d said superintendent Bob Hagan at the BOE meeting. \u201cBut in the end, what I can say is that we are just so proud to have great people working here in this district.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Almonte, of Medford, said she was at lunch when the incident occurred as she described what unfolded that day in an interview with the Riverhead News Review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something felt off, and the cafeteria was unusually quiet, she recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Immediately one of my colleagues walked in and said, &#8216;Hey, did you hear what happened with your student?&#8217; And I said, &#8216;No,'&#8221; Ms. Almonte said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Almonte walked out to where her class was at recess and saw the ambulance. Next, she saw the student\u2019s mom was with him, and the first responders were already helping him. She asked if she could go to the student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t know the extent of the injury, and I didn&#8217;t know if they would allow me to, but they said yes,\u201d said Ms. Almonte.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After hugging the boy\u2019s mom, she knelt down next to the injured student as the paramedics worked on stabilzing the injury.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t look at the injury because I knew that if I actually knew what was wrong with him, that I was going to sort of demonstrate that on my face. I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be capable of holding it together for him if I was concerned about what was going on there,&#8221; Ms. Almonte said. &#8220;But he had a large team already kind of working on that, thankfully. 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