I do expect great things in the future for my child, why would I not? I think that she a very smart child who happens to be Deaf, why is that a bad thing? Of course we teach her at home, we considered homeschooling her completely but I felt like I wasn't a good enough language model, I wanted her to be around native signers. (I still have no idea why it is offensive to believe my child will have roughly the same IQ and education as her parents, I believe that the research bears me out.) I was merely talking about our concerns about her educational placement in the future.