As a teacher, WAVES is wrong... (Score 2)

I am a teacher to over 300 Gifted and Talented students between the ages of 9-12.The majority of my students could be described as "odd" and "unusual". They are very creative people who do not fit into the mainstream, even at their very young age. I can see what they would be like in Junior High and High School. Wait...that was me!!! I was an artistic NERD. And I graduated from college as Valedictorian with a GPA of 4.0 while being a varsity athlete. (Okay, it was fencing, that's considered weird by the NCAA) Now I'm a dedicated teacher who has great success in the classroom and as a leader for my peers in education reform even though I'm much younger than they are. I am afraid for my students, who like me, did not fit in when young, but will most likely end up at the top of their professions. Has Bill Gates really done much worse than push the limits of the American Dream? He hasn't gone a shooting rampage. The Geeks shall inherit the earth.