We beat your kids so you dont have to Written by Jordan Albert
I
t’s ten thirty on a Saturday
P
hillip Rogers takes in
G
oals is always helping
night, and I hadn’t left the
students regardless of so-
people work hard. Money
en hours. I’m at Goals catch-
devoted to bettering their
any of his staff (said by both
blank box like room for seving up as usual. Story of my
cioeconomic status that are grades by learning from
life. My phone blinks on, with unorthodox yet highly suca text from my parents statcessful teaching methods.
isn’t important to Phillip or Phillip and Lena). When he does take money, it rare-
ly even goes to Phillip. Most
ing that they didn’t want to
Before working with students, of the money often goes
anymore. This was the third
so to see if they actually
to getting better equipment
they hope to achieve. From
able chairs, larger and more
pay for lessons with Phillip day in a row I’d stayed so
long. A bit sullen, I went to
tell Phillip, with the thought that I’d simply be asked to leave. Phillip looked down
for a second, almost in deep thought. He’d seen me working throughout the week,
thus he stated that if they
wouldn’t pay, he’d just do it
for free, “If you’re willing to put in the work, I’m willing
to match it.” I thought he was joking. Who gives out their services for free? To him,
helping me was more important than the money. To anyone for that matter.
Phillip talks to them. He does right back into the company, want to be there, and what this, he decides if he will
work with the person. Goals currently has “about thirty
to forty students that come
in regularly, and fifty or so
that just drop by every once
in a while” with no standard student. By that I mean he
takes in all different kinds of students, such as those
that are failing, can’t pay for their lessons, students of all kinds of ethnicities or religions backgrounds, or even
“4.0 students who just want to see their friends once a
month.” All that matters is if the student shows that they are devoted to achieving theirgoal.
for the kids, more comfort-
whiteboards, better programs,