JCCS Academic Language Assessment Week 35 - Sweatshops

Are sweatshops a violation of people's human rights? Yes, they are. I and other people feel this way because in a sweatshop people are working long hours for little pay and that is extremely unfair. I'm sure there is no CONTRACT out there that any one person would sign to work in a place like that and be stripped of their dignity. Also, in a sweatshop the workers there aren't able to APPLY the skills they've learned throughout their life to the work they do. What are they gaining from this? To add onto that the employees there are putting in hard LABOR and getting nothing but pocket change in return. Sweatshops should be illegal unless the owners change their rules and make it a nice and rewarding environment for their colleagues to be in.

JCCS Academic Language Assessment Week 33 - American Students

Are American students falling behind compared to students from other countries? Yes. I and others feel this way for a number of reasons. One of those reasons are DATA shows that children in other countries are more educated in important subjects such as science and mathematics. Also students in America may be falling behind due to the shorter school day and weekends. If you COMPARE schools in the United States to schools in India you'll find that here we go to school five days a week for six hours a day but in India the students will go to school for six days a week for seven hours a day. Because of this those foreign students are in a position where they are able to study on subjects longer and have better knowledge on them. Lastly I personally feel that in my school I could be learning a wider RANGE of things that would help me in the world to become more wiser and intelligent. In conclusion I think that here in America we are capable of so many things and it is a good idea that we students should be taught more in schools.