> I wonder if the first word you teach them is bitter. I have been a
> teacher for 27 years and the last four as an ESL teacher in Asia
> (both China and south Korea and it does matter - though I like them
> both for different reasons).

> Also, study a little history before you compare ANYONE to Hitler.
> Probably only Mao and Stalin qualify- certainly nobody out there like
> that today - although Saddam would have loved to have been.

Well spoken for a Republican! Actually, you call that a hyperbole. You know, it's used to express emotion rather than fact. But, I will say that the comparison is close when you count the dead (collateral damage) caused by his little unjustified excursion. Anyway, I'm not bitter with my students but I am bitter with smart a$$es like you that support tyranny and acquiesce to propaganda. I guess you are a shoe in for any propaganda machine...you do work in China so that makes since. Well, I don't know what you taught in those touted 27 years, but I sincerely hope that you DONT let that conservatism seep into the classroom!! I believe thats how the Hitler youth started.