> 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
> & 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 & starts studying.
> Books & 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."
>
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