This editorial ran in the Oneida Dispatch on May 4, 2015. I wrote it to protest the Oneida School Board’s unreasonable treatment of my son.
Superintendent ‘Lied’, Board Swears To It
The Oneida school District refuses to educate my son in math and its costing you money.
My son Bob is very good at math. Last year, in sixth grade, he taught himself Algebra and asked to challenge the course because he was bored in math. The District’s first response: “I don’t care what he knows–he’s taking math 7 next year!” After resistance from Mr. Spadafora, the Superintendent, the Board let Bob challenge the course. Bob got a 90 on the exam and passed the oral exam, but it wasn’t good enough for them. They put him in Algebra Anyway. Bob quickly decided the class was a waste of his time, instead teaching himself three more years of math through last January, including Pre-Calculus at HCCC.