We at the Podunk tread carefully into matters of the homework of school children; we too have felt the agony of defeat, as we strive to “help out” when it comes to the decimal system, fractions, shapes and other assorted elements of the evil practice of mathematics. There has been many a night at the Casa Podunk where the math sent home has sent your faithful scribe off to a corner, mindlessly mumbling aloud about this new math and what circle of hell it may have sprung from.
However, we must share a snicker at the fate of David Beckham, one of England’s supreme stars of the soccer pitch, a man showered with millions of dollars in salary and commercial endorsements, but apparently a bit of a dolt when it comes to helping out after school.
Beckham has confessed (and subsequently set himself up for ridicule) that he turns over the math homework to wife Victoria, when it comes to helping young six year old Brooklyn Beckham work on his grade school math homework.
The Beckham’s who send their young ones to a $1200 ( $2385 Cdn) dollars a month private British form school in Madrid, Spain, are finding that the math curriculum is a tad challenging (well for Mr. Beck’s anyways).
The website This is London, lists the following as some sample questions that young Brooklyn may be bringing home to challenge dear old Dad!
1) Subtract 11 from 50,
2) Or how much change would you have from 50p after buying a 24p pencil and a 7p eraser?
3) Bet went to the shop at 11:45. She came back half an hour later. What time did she come back?'
4) What is 12 divided by three?'
At $1200 a term, one would think that the posh schools of Madrid would send home a tutor to help out their math phobic parents. Perhaps this answers that age old question as to why athletes require the services of player agents.
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