In today's class we had a socratic seminar on the topic of child labor, the key question we discussed was, would you or would you not buy products made by child labor? Some points that I brought to the discussion was the demographic, that 90% of children involved in domestic labor are girls. This shows that less prominent child labor is prejudice towards females roles in developing countries. Another point I brought to the discussion was that some children were actually willing to participate in child labor. Some children whose families live in poverty, are willing to work in less that okay conditions to help support their families. One more point that I brought to the discussion was when I mentioned that employers don't provide the children with proper safety equipment because they only care about making money, and buying equipment would also cost money.
During the discussion, other classmates brought up a lot of influential and important points as well. One point that was mentioned was the fact that a person could make around twenty dollars verses a child laborer who makes less that two dollars doing the same job. Another point that a student brought up in the discussion was that children are still being bought like slaves today. One more point a student brought up was that even if you didn't want to buy products made by child labor, it's almost too hard to avoid it, you can't just check every little thing you're about to buy to see if it was made by child labor.
My overall assessment on what our group did well on would be asking interesting and thoughtful questions. Another thing our group did well on was allowing everyone the chance to share their thoughts. Two things we can improve upon next time, would be time management, and speaking up. I felt like we were a little rushed near the end, if we moved along the questions more efficiently we could've gotten more in. During the discussion, I sometimes had a little trouble hearing the other side of the room talking and discussing.
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