Submitted in 2010/04 for Grade 7 English at Stanley Park Senior Public School, Kitchener, ON, CAN
Child labour is not acceptable. Kids aren't supposed to have jobs until they're adults. The whole point of childhood is to have fun and be free. Kids need to be healthy, be happy and have knowledge.
If kids are always cooped up in a dark room, being shouted at and abused then they'll always be depressed and will think that life sucks. If this happens then I bet the kids will be bad people when they grow up and abuse and shout at people because that's the only thing they know; the only thing they've experienced.
Also, the happier you are the healthier you are but the kids working at the factories get blisters and diseases and no one helps them. There are no doctors at the factories. The adults don't care about them. So the kids are always sad.
It's also not fair that while the kids are doing work for nothing (even though they think they're getting paid) while their masters are just sitting around doing nothing and he/she gets the money. He's the adult he should be doing the work.
The kids should go to school, so they'll be ready to work when they grow up. They shouldn't be working their whole lives. The kids will learn more skills at school than at a factory anyways. They might learn how to make a carpet or a brick or something but what help will that be in the future.
It's not fair that kids in Pakistan are suffering in carpet or brick factories while we're here going to school, playing sports, having fun and we don't even think about them. We need to shut down those factories.
Kids shouldn't have to work. It's not fair, it's not healthy and it's not helpful.