It Never Added Up: My Adventures in Dyscalculia & Le Cinema

I will never forget that awful day in fifth grade when my teacher — a miserable wretch of a person who never should have been allowed in a…

I will never forget that awful day in fifth grade when my teacher — a miserable wretch of a person who never should have been allowed in a room full of 10-year-old kids, let alone in a school — announced to the class that I was flunking math “because Arnie doesn’t know his times tables.

I felt deep shame — but also rage at this man for turning what shoul…