Stories of Hope

  The social studies text book of six graders has a couple of images showing children working in factories and construction sites. Source: VI Text Book for reference only I included those images in my learning packet to trigger some serious thinking. I asked the class a series of questions: What does this make you think? What are these children doing? Why are they doing this? Should they be doing this? The response was a strong “No Mam”. The class agreed that the children should not be doing this and discussed about their background and economic status that compelled them to do what they were doing. In order to make them think about this situation with more compassion instead of just reason, I asked them if all of this becomes fair if they know that the children were engaged in labor to support their families, to reduce parent’s financial burden or settle old family dues. The No came even more strongly this time. The class was appalled by the idea. I thought this was