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		About my students, P & P:
		Stephanie came into our lives at a very trying time for my daughter who was then in junior year. P.'s health was poor; she had just performed a solo dance debut during which time she'd not been able to keep up with AP course work. By the time mid October rolled around, she was exhausted, crabby, diffident and, in her own words, 'failing Calculus BC miserably' - after a straight-A record K-8. Stephanie pulled my daughter out of her downward spiral by helping her regain faith in her math abilities.  P. enjoyed hanging out with her: she looked up to Stephanie and yet, strangely, she felt like she was her peer too. Tutors are supposed to be dull and harsh. Stephanie, on the other hand, made this fiendish subject feel like a whole lot of fun, especially on the days she wore her nerdy math T-shirts. She also took a very personal interest in P.'s performance. Every failure by P. seemed to make Stephanie feel it was her failure too. I've rarely seen such sincerity in people. Two months into the tutoring session, from the start of the second semester, P. made an A or A- in almost every test and finally went on to get a 5 in the AP test conducted by college board. And how can I forget to mention that Stephanie celebrated every A with a bag of cheetos bought especially for my daughter? (Trust a recent college student to know that a way to a teen heart is through junk food) P. did not have a memorable junior year. In hindsight, however, a good junior year would not have given P. (or our family) the opportunity to meet Stephanie, a bubbly, pleasant and 'super-sharp' (in P.'s words) young lady. I say this also because P., at a formative time in her life,  has found a wonderful role model in Stephanie; our daughter is amazed at how disciplined and organized Stephanie is on a daily basis. It's hard for parents to inculcate good values in their kids by screaming it into their ears day after day; the best way, sometimes, is to let them watch someone else (closer to their age) at close quarters. I sincerely hope P. has absorbed some of Stephanie's attention to detail and I would like her to tutor Calculus BC (one of her pet subjects) to some other struggling child one day. Today, Stephanie is helping our 13-year-old son, P., advance in his math. Thanks to her unflinching demands regarding neatness and precision in showing work, my son's math work is now more legible and cleaner (in the pre-Stephanie days his handwriting used to look like rat droppings on a bad food day). These days, P. makes almost no mistakes in his school work and tests; prior to this he was the uncrowned king of careless errors. We believe Stephanie was able to do for our son what both his parents could never do!     ~K.M., mother of P., an 11th-grade, AP Calculus BC, Saratoga High student (Saratoga)                 and mother of P., an 8th-grade math student (Saratoga)