Punishing
The puns just keep on coming! To clarify for those who might not immediately grasp the joke: in mathematics, the term “mean” is essentially another way of saying “average,” depending on the context.
So when one of the El Arroyo staff members wrote the quip, “My math teacher called me average. How mean!” they knew it would elicit laughter primarily from those familiar with the mathematical term. It shows that even the most mundane subjects, like math, can sometimes be amusing.