The Wave1981

Laurie:
It was incredible, everybody was saluting and repeating the motto, you couldn't help but get caught up in it. You know, really wanting to make it work.

Mrs. Saunders:
Well I don't like it, Laurie, it sounds too much like brainwashing and mob psychology to me.

Laurie:
No, Mom, it's nothing like that, honest, you just have to be there to feel the positive energy in class to really get what's going on.

Mr. Saunders:
I am for whatever will make kids pay attention to anything these days.

Laurie:
And that's really what it's doing. Even Robert Watkins, you know, the class creep, he's even part of the group now.

Mrs. Saunders:
But you're supposed to be learning history, not how to be part of a group.

Mr. Saunders:
This country was built by people who were part of a group. The Pilgrims, the Founding Fathers.

Mrs. Saunders:
Yes, but it owes its greatness to those people who weren't afraid to be individual.

Laurie:
Stop worrying, Mom, Mr. Ross has just found a really great way to get everybody to learn something. Even the slow kids are keeping up.

Mrs. Saunders:
That's all very well and good for the slow kids, but it just doesn't sound like the right thing for you, Laurie, sweetheart, we raised you to be an individual.