"Actually," Topher said, "the teachers here? They want what's best for the students, and they don't mind helping out. They went through similar things themselves. That knowledge and experience, it really does come in handy." In other words, maybe taking lessons from another student wasn't the best idea. Practice, sure, but the learning bits, well, that's why they had Rachel, Emma, and the others.

"One of the first X-Men, Jean Grey, was a telekinetic and a telepath herself. The school has years of dealing with it. Besides, not every mutant's power works the same way, or has the same sort of signature." There was, after all, a reason why Betsy Braddock was more in tune with creating psi-weaponry for her powers, while others manifested theirs differently.

"But like I said. You aren't alone here."