Comments for Mr. Foley's Social Studies Classroom

Comment on Child Labor by Alex De Cola

Alex De Cola — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:34:13 +0000

I was really suprised to learn about child labor and I hope I can make a differencce in one of these childrens lives

Comment on Child Labor by christa

christa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:14:41 +0000

i dont understand why any person would make a child work all day in horrible conditions and only paying them little if any wages. when we researched child labor in the library during class the other day, i looked at pictures that were really disturbing. i saw a kid who was maybe 3-4 years old carrying tons of bricks on his back. not untill i saw these pictures and learned that child labor still goes on in the world today did i really think about it. it is a horrible situation that we need to stop. one type of child labor that struck me was sex labor. about 10,000 children are brought into the U.S. to big cities like Los Angeles or NYC. if they try to escape they get beaten, raped, or killed. the children are sold for about 10,000 to 30,000 dollars. unlike prostitution, they are not payed, but are slaved the same way. their owners make about 30,000 dollars every week off these hopless children. no child should be treated like this and we need to put a stop to child labor.

Comment on Child Labor by jerel

jerel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:54:05 +0000

After reading the artical about child labor i still seem to be shocked about it. Yet this still goes on in the world and still the goverments of these nations still do nothing about it. I believe that as kids of America we should do something about this. If we done act soon than we could be next.

Comment on Child Labor by MELISSA

MELISSA — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:40:23 +0000

i was shocked that other kids from different places wanted to stop this. over 10 thousands of youth in U.S. and Canada are helping.

Comment on Child Labor by C peyton

C peyton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:58:53 +0000

After reading the articles i was surprised that alot of every day items are produced through child labo and governments is doing little to nothing to stop this even though these children are getting cheated out of childhood for nothing but a few dimes and nickels.

Comment on Urbanization by Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:35:57 +0000

i agree with louis that there should be taller buildings because then there would be enough room for more people.

Comment on Child Labor by Zoe M

Zoe M — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:32:04 +0000

I was surprised that some products are made by children, for children. How can Disney do that?!

Comment on Child Labor by Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:31:30 +0000

I can't believe how many kids are working instead of going to school. some of these kids stroies are really sad. there was this one kid who worked on trains. his job was to sweep the cars and one day his clothes got stuck in the train. the train ran him over. i think that is horrible. i feel really bad that kids have to do this and that a lot of them are dying over it.

Comment on Child Labor by Madison G

Madison G — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:26:27 +0000

I can not believe that there is still child labor anywhere around America today! I thought that it was an old problem that has been solved, concidering it is now illegal! But more than 246 million still working today! hopefully in the future this will not be an issue!

Comment on Child Labor by Kira P.

Kira P. — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:46:51 +0000

I went online and did some research on Walmart, because I remember it being mentioned in class, and was surprised to find that Walmart had been using child labor to lower their prices ( like they aren't low enough already)! Other companies in the US have done this too, but what was surprising, is that Walmart, being such a large and profitable company, can afford the labor to be done by people above the required age. They don't need the child labor, because they already have enough money from not giving their workers health care. Yes, you heard ( read?) me right. Walmart ( supposedly ) hires illegal aliens to work for low costs, just like they use child labor to lower their costs! When I read about this, I was like: " What?!". I couldn't believe that Walmart was doing so many bad things. Their commercials are so good!