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Suggest Revision: So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
 
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Suggest Revision: Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.
 
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Suggest Revision: The house is a factory.
 
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Suggest Revision: The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
 
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Suggest Revision: You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
 
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Suggest Revision: And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
 
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Suggest Revision: But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.
 
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Suggest Revision: But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.
 
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Suggest Revision: It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
 
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Suggest Revision: People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
 
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