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Public service "is addictive," Shin says. "Once volunteers see what's going on, its hard to turn back." And Rogers says, "I just love it. You get a special feeling that you can't get doing anything else--there's no way you can get that feeling from a job...
Last year, Rogers worked on math with Deborah Kershner, a 13-year-old at the Longfellow School. "It was really funny because I'm not a math person at all," says Rogers, who concentrates in Fine Arts.
"Deborah was super-bright," Rogers says, "so bright she wouldn't concentrate." Rogers says she spent weeks trying to establish trust and communication with the eighth-grader. "The hardest thing for me is dealing with someone very different than I am," Rogers says. "You have to know exactly how to...
At first, Rogers says, there were problems with the relationship. "I'd go in and say, `What did you do in class?' and she'd say, `I don't know.' Then, we would go through the book and do things I know she had heard in class," says Rogers. "That...
"By the end of the year, her grades were getting a littlebetter, and she was so psyched up, which was an amazing change for Deborah," Rogers says.