The Math Lesson Joke
A ten-year-old Jewish boy was failing math. His parents tried
everything from
tutors to hypnosis, not to mention summer school -- all to no avail.
Finally, at the insistence of a family friend, they decided to
enroll their
son in a private Catholic school.
After the first day, the boy's parents were surprised when he walked
in after
school with a stern, focused and very determined expression on his
face.
He went straight past them, right to his room and quietly closed the
door.
For two hours he toiled away in his room -- with math books strewn
about his
desk and the surrounding floor. He emerged long enough to eat, and
after
quickly cleaning his plate, went straight back to his room, closed
the door
and worked feverishly at his studies until bedtime.
This pattern of behavior continued until it was time for the first
quarter's
report card. The boy walked in with it unopened -- laid it on the
dinner
table and went straight to his room.
Cautiously, his mother opened it and, to her amazement, she saw the
red 'A'
under the subject of Math.
Overjoyed, she and her husband rushed into their son's room,
thrilled at his
remarkable progress.
"Was it the nuns that did it?" the father asked.
The boy shook his head and said "No."
"Was it the one-to-one tutoring? The peer-mentoring?"
"No."
"The textbooks? The teachers? The curriculum?"
"No," said the son, "on that first day, when I walked
in the front door and
saw that Guy nailed to the plus(cross) sign, I KNEW they meant
business!"