Zachary and a math problem
 

This was just forwarded to me:
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Little Zachary was doing very badly in math. His parents had
tried everything... Tutors, Mentors, flash cards, Special learning
centers. In short, everything
they could think of to help his math.

Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took Zachary down and
enrolled him in the local Catholic school. After the first day, little
Zachary came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn't even
kiss his mother Hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and
started studying. Books and papers were spread
out all over the room and little Zachary was hard at work. His
mother was amazed. She called him down to dinner.

To her shock, the minute he was done, he marched back to his
room without a word, and in no time, he was back hitting the books as
hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day, while the
mother tried to understand what made all the difference.



Finally, little Zachary brought home his report card. He
quietly laid it on the table, went up to his room and hit the books.
With great trepidation, his Mom looked at it and to her great surprise,
little Zachary got an "A" in math. She could no longer hold her
curiosity. She went to his room and said, "Son, what was it? Was it
the
nuns?" Little Zachary looked at her and shook his head, no. "Well,
then," she replied, "Was it the books, the discipline, the structure,
the uniforms? WHAT WAS IT ALREADY?"

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

Yea I seen this one before. But its all too true. Fear is a very powerful motivator.

It wont last forever though. Once that kid gets old enough to realize thats he actually wont get nailed to the cross for not doing his math homework, and this whole time he was being played you can bet his attitude will change then.

Eventually roles will switch.

Good joke. An old one, but a good one.