Two members of the public used the board's public-comment period at the Oct. 23 meeting to raise safety and curriculum concerns.

Mary Wilson, a resident at 9 New Jersey Avenue, told the board students in grades 6–8 who walk to East Islip Middle School must traverse a hazardous intersection at Park Place and Beecher Avenue and asked that the district restore a bus stop at Park Place and Beecher Avenue. Wilson said a district review previously found residences west of Carlton Avenue qualified for a child safety zone and that her address sits "a tenth of a mile" outside the qualifying point code. She said the walking distance from her driveway to the school building entrance is about 1.2 miles and noted there is no stop sign, no crosswalk and no crossing guard at the intersection she described. Wilson referenced the district's Transfinder review and said middle-school bus ridership is approximately 80% full; she urged the board to reinstate the bus stop and to require the district to provide a plan for student access to the building during snowstorms.

Board members said the district's transportation supervisor (Mr. Harrison) would follow up with Wilson on the busing situation and that issues such as stop signs or sidewalks typically fall under town or state jurisdiction.

Kenneth Wardmore addressed the board about financial literacy for students, citing national data on credit and missed payments. Wardmore said he has repeatedly asked the board for a financial education course. District staff answered that financial literacy content has been embedded in the required economics course this year and that an elective personal finance course is also available. The transcript records that the district added financial-literacy weeks to middle-school FACS classes (two additional weeks in sixth grade and four additional weeks in seventh grade) and that the economics requirement now includes a financial-literacy unit so "no student can graduate without having had that financial literacy." The district named staff (humanities director and FACS director) as contributors to the curriculum updates in the remarks recorded on the transcript.

Board members thanked both speakers for raising their concerns and noted staff follow-up would occur.