Child Labor: Through The Feilds and Behind The Closed Doors

In today's class we discussed child labor. Every one in the class read articles about child labor and the horrific truth about it. Many kids referred back to the video of the two kids that work on a tobacco farm. This is good evidence of why child labor is so wrong because they talk about the pesticides hurting them getting tobacco poisoning and how they work 12 hour work days. Another article people referred to was the fact that some kids signed up for it to make extra income for their family. Kids were so desperate to help their parents keep a roof over their heads they signed up to be abused physically and emotionally. One final thing the group often mentioned was the illegal hours they made the children work. Many facilities that had child labor had them work 72 hours or more. This was bad for the kids health and safety.
In the Socratic seminar I  just had a few main points I kept brining up because they left an such an impact on me. One of which was that child labor also involved child prostitution and child trafficking for drugs. Not a lot of kids brought this up they stuck with the obvious facts but when I read about that I couldn't help but mention it because that.was the worst of what I had heard about child labor. Another point I brought up frequently was that child labor was so dangerous for the kids because in order for a kid to grow and develop properly he has to sleep and a lot at a young age -teens and they would get up at 4 am everyday a d start doing heavy lifting or dangerous jobs. Also for the children that were sold got not enough food or not the right food for a child to be healthy.One of my last and final points was that. It messed the kids up emotionally because they were treated like garbage and get nothing in return for there hard work. Again bringing up the orphans when they were sold by there own moth or father that messes them up a lot because the people that he loved the most gave him to this horrible life all alone for a couple hundred dollars and that again had a big impact on me.
My group was a very fun group to work with we always had ideas going and comments back and forth one thing we could have done better was eye contact.I would look at the person talking and they would be looking at the ground or at me Gleason. Another thing we should improve on is not repeating things that had already been said because a lot of the time we were stuck on one subject because no one would switch gears. Besides those 2 minor flaws my group did great. One thing we did really well was responding to people and bouncing ideas off each other although sometimes we got stuck in the mud it helped get a better understanding at some points. Another thing we all did well was wait a while before talking so if someone wanted to talk they could go which just thought was very polite because for those who talked less it gave them an opportunity to say something .