American madrasa-----CLASS PROJECT: 6th graders target Apple over ‘child labor’

CLASS PROJECT: 6th graders target Apple over ‘child labor’ - EAGnews.org:
"BRISTOL, Conn. – West Bristol school library assistant Judy Michaud has created quite a group of global justice advocates.
Fourteen primary school students presented articles this week to parents, family members and local politicians as part of the West Bristol School Howler Newspaper Club, and their covering some pretty heavy political topics: child labor, human rights, hunger, gender equality, species extinction and other global justice causes.
...Students were allowed to select the topic of their choice,” the Howler reads.
“The assignment was to decide whether or not your topic was fine enough to ‘leave it alone’ or if instead your topic demanded society to ‘turn over a new leaf.’”
Miraculously, all of the students decided on their own to “turn over a new leaf,” Michaud, the student newspaper’s editor, told The Bristol Press.
“Meeting a few mornings a week, they had not only researched their topics and were working toward the arduous task of writing their pieces, but took part in lively discussion focusing on current events,” Michaud said..."