How The Cross, Did It For Him

When the parents of a ten-year-old boy who was failing math, had tried everything from tutors to hypnosis, but to no avail; a family friend insisted, they enroll him in a private Catholic school. And they did. 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, and went right past them straight to his room, where he quietly closed the door. For nearly 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 continued ceaselessly until it was time for the first quarter report card. The boy walked in with his report card unopened, laid it on the dinner table and went straight to his room. Cautiously, his mother opened it, and to her amazement, she saw a bright 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 only shook his head and said, "No." Then, the father fired a volley of questions, "Was it the one-on-one tutoring? Was it the peer mentoring? Was it the textbooks? Was it the teachers? Was it the curriculum?" And the son said. "Nope, but on that first day, when I walked in the front door and saw that guy they nailed to the 'plus sign,' I just knew they meant business!"