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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,


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