CINCINNATI, Ohio – Officials in the Northwest Local School District recently banned a father of two students after he began asking questions about Common Core standardized testing, and attempted to opt his daughter out of the tests.

Eric Buwala told CantonRep.com the issue began last fall when the teacher of his 9-year-old daughter mentioned the girl gets anxious during standardized tests.

Buwala researched state testing requirements, and does not believe his daughter is required to take the new Common Core-aligned Partnership for Assessment and Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). He also contacted state officials to determine if his daughter must take a Reading Guarantee third-grade reading test to move on to fourth grade.

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State officials told Buwala to consult with local district officials about opting his daughter out of the tests, but they’ve been unresponsive, the father told the news site.

After months of emails, meetings and other communications between Buwala and district officials, superintendent Mike Shreffler decided to ban the parent from school property, and from speaking with staff, including his child’s teacher. Shreffler told Buwala he will be arrested if he violates the superintendent’s degree.

Buwala is now consulting with attorney Warner Mendenhall to have the ban lifted, and has promised to sue the school district if it doesn’t happen to “protect his rights and those of his child,” Mendenhall wrote in a letter to school officials last week.

“I’m not asking the school to let her opt out, I am just asking them to state their position,” Buwala told CantonRep.com. “They won’t even recognize my right not to take the test.”

Shreffler admits Buwala never threatened or harassed anyone at the school, and hasn’t been disruptive, but is nonetheless basing the ban on school safety, in part because of a misdemeanor disorderly conduct conviction on Buwala’s record.

“It’s five years of the district dealing with this parent,” Shreffler said, according to the news site. “I’m taking into consideration a number of things, not just a couple of emails. There were meetings, actions and interaction and history in the community.”

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Initially, Buwala was banned from all school property, indefinitely, but officials later modified the total ban to allow Buwala to attend school board meetings.

Shreffler told CantonRep.com he hopes Buwala attends the next board meeting to give the two an opportunity to again discuss a resolution.

“We will get a chance to see each other face to face and I will try as hard as I can to bring this to resolution,” Shreffler said, adding that he plans to lift the ban after some time. “I’ve been in the business for over 20 years. Parents do what they think is best for the kids. I don’t hold grudges and we have to move on.”

Buwala, meanwhile, believes he’s left with few choices if school officials don’t rescind the band soon.

“How long should I go without talking to my daughter’s teacher?” he questioned. “All they have to do is answer my question. My attorney feels this is something that would end up at federal court as a violation of my rights.

“I don’t want to do that,” Buwala said. “I don’t want to incur the expense and headache and pain.”

As Scheffler alludes to, it’s not the district’s first run-in with Buwala.

The father of two raised issue in 2011 when his son brought home a school fundraiser flyer that essentially bribed students – with a magic show, cash and other trinkets – to sell magazines for the Tennessee company Great American Opportunities, Ohio.com reported at the time.

Public information requests submitted by Buwala showed the 2010 fundraiser brought in $15,163, with just over half going to Great American Opportunities. The money raised for the school went into a Principal’s Fund, and Buwala’s research showed school officials were spending the money in violation of their own handbook procedures.

The “Student Activity Accounts Administration and Procedures” policy in the school handbook specifically prohibited the use of Principal’s Fund money to buy office equipment, supplies or other curricular items.

Documents obtained by Buwala showed the fund was used to purchase office supplies, and sixth-grade Social Studies books, as well as uniforms for the track team, Ohio.com reports.

“Why does my son have to sell magazines to raise money for the track team? Buwala asked at the time.

“I’m not against paying taxes to provide public schooling,” he said. “But with more and more requests for money, I can’t help but feel that no one is minding the store.”