My experience over 28 years, teaching the book in both high school and college, is very similar to Errol's. After the first-day, when I "sit-on-the-front-of-the-desk-and-talk-to-the-students," class meeting style, things have gone well. I've occasionally shown the PBS documentary Born to Trouble before beginning the novel. You have to know a class, and they have to trust you and each other. . . .but I've always found the risk of squarely facing the book and its issues totally worth it. Kim Kim Martin Long Interim Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences Shippensburg University