Wednesday, October 22, 2008

MET














After I watched the video about child laborers in the United States, I realized that while we are over here wishing that we weren't I school there are people that would give up everything they had to be able to go to school. Some of the people in the United States aren't able to go to school because they have to work on farms so that they could earn money for their families. Because of that the children either don't go to school at all or drop out. For the children that work on farms, it is very hard for them to keep up with the rest of the students in their class. Soon they fall behind because they have to leave early from school to go north and come back late. Because of the frustration of this they drop out of school.
Now there is a program called MET which stands for motivation, education, and training. They help the migrants that drop out of school. This program pays the children to go to school there so that the children don't have to work. This way, the families don't have to make the decision of whether to put their children on the field or let them stay in school.

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