In today's class we had a socratic seminar about the issue of child labor across the world. We discussed specific topics such as "Would you buy things made with child labor?" And "How much should children play a role in making decisions about whether or not they should work".
During the seminar I mentioned how I had always assumed that child labor had made a much larger decline than it really had. Also I brought up how I found it surprising that Africa had the largest rate of child labor, I imagined that China would have been the largest offender given the fact that pretty much anything mass produced that you buy in America has the a little label on it that says MADE IN CHINA. I also mentioned that realistically I would buy something made with child labor because there is no label on it that says "Warning the shirt was made with child labor" but if it came down to is it right to buy something made through the abuse and pain of children then I would not.
Anthony suggested that if they made a law that required companies that make things using child labor to put a label on their product that says "Made on the backs of children" people might be more weary of what they buy. In addition someone gave a suggestion that if America outlawed the use of child labor children it would at least improve things in the U.S. and maybe set an example for other countries.
During the seminar we did a good job of making suggestions on what could be done to stop child labor. We also did a good job keeping the conversation going, there were always answers to the questions and always more answers. I think that in the future we could reference the text more, we did reference it during our recent seminar but not as often as we should have. In the future it would be better if we had more time, we had good dialogue but a lot of things didn't get covered because we ran out of time.
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