Whose property?

Milky wrote:

Again, that post is MINE...

It's still a more sensible comment than the one you attribute to "Wilkes".

Here, on the other hand, I find myself a little bemused by your tone:

Milky wrote:

..."negotiate" means that students sometimes know what is good for them and sometimes they don't. Likewise, teachers sometimes know what is good for students and sometimes they don't. In such cases, negotiation can take place between the teacher and student (or school, company, HR director, etc).

1. Doesn't it strike you as a little, well, arrogant, to assume that when you're hired to teach English to a class of strict Shi'ite Muslims, it's your business to inflict your views about "the relativity of values" upon them? I'm not averse to a little relativism myself; but as far as I can see, native non-relativists seem to get by in English perfectly well.

2. Doesn't it show an absurdly high opinion of yourself, to assume that some of your students don't know what's good for them, in terms of ideology, but that you, somehow, do? You've been hired to teach English; not to play Master Po to their Little Grasshoppers.

3. Don't you think, on reflection, that the comments of yours I've quoted above could only be uttered by someone who rather looked down on his students?

MrP

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I have replied to that post and a number of others, but my replies have not appeared. Just to let you know that I do reply to Mr Ps posts.

Mike In Japan wrote:

Dear Milky, Generally the only posts which get deleted are the abusive, the nonsensical, those written in foreign languages, and spam. We have had no reports of posts having gone strangely missing, other than yours. Might I suggest that if any of your posts goes strangely missing you forward a copy to one of our admins and we will make sure it appears. Regards, Mike

At least six post have gone missing. I will try posting this one and we'll see if it appears.