CATHOLIC MATH

Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried 
everything; tutors, flash cards, special learning centers, in short,
everything they could think of. Finally in a last ditch effort, they took
Tommy down and enrolled him in the local Catholic School.

After the first day, little Tommy comes home with a very serious look on his
face. He doesn't kiss his mother hello. Instead, he goes straight to his room
and starts studying. Books and papers are spread out all over the room and
little Tommy is hard at work. His mother is amazed. She calls him down to
dinner and to her shock, the minute he is done he marches back to his room
without a word and in no time he is back hitting the books as hard as
before. This goes on for sometime, day after day while the mother tries to
understand what made all the difference.

Finally, little Tommy brings home his report card. He quietly lays it on the
table and goes up to his room and hits the books. With great trepidation, his
mom looks at it and to her surprise, little Tommy got an A in math. She can no
longer hold her curiosity. She goes to his room and says: "Son, what was it? 
Was it the nuns?" Little Tommy looks at her and shakes his head. "Well then",
she replies, "was it the books, the discipline, the structure, the uniforms,
WHAT was it?".

Little Tommy looks at her and says, "Well, on the first day of school, when I
saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't fooling around."