, to her amazement, she saw a large 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 sign, I KNEW they were serious!”