Right? 
Embedded Link
Good English teaching helps students in math
Great English teachers boost their students achievements in math, a very different subject, according to Stanford researchers. The researchers found that students of good language arts teachers had higher than expected math scores in subsequent years – a crossover effect.
Google+: Reshared 1 times
Google+: View post on Google+
I would suspect that this is because non numerically oriented teachers, and popular curricula such as "connected math" have turned many math classes into English and Art exercises.