Classroom Crossing

The 75 second-graders who cross Edwards Road to Hyde Park School’s temporary classrooms each morning do so in pairs, holding hands, accompanied by a pair of teachers who stretch a bright yellow rope across the street to catch drivers’ attention.It doesn’t always work. On Feb. 27, a car turned off nearby Observatory Avenue and directly into the crowd of children.None were hit, but “a lot of them got pretty scared and were crying,” mother Kristin Hunter said Tuesday, choking up as she remembered it. “And then one had a panic attack. Yeah. They were pretty scared.”