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Sue Neuman, teacher, 6th Grade

Dover Elementary School
24 May 2001

Check out the article about the Dover School program: We have to do something

CLEA students presen child labor issues to	sixth grade students at Dover Elementary School.
Students were encouraged to pursue their interests	at the CLEA web site and through other resources.

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802 464 5386

 

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"We have to do something": 6th graders at Dover Elementary engage their community around child labor issues. By Kathy Johnson (for Vermont Equity) 30 January 2003 Three years ago, after reading an article in Scholastic magazine about child labor, Dover 6th grade teacher Sue Neuman assigned her students a summer homework assignment of investigating child labor practices in various countries around the world. The intense interest and concern students expressed led Sue to bring them to the Child Labor Education and Action (CLEA) conference that year. "Now that I know how women and children are being treated in developing nations I'm going to be much more aware of what I buy and I'm going to spread the word," remarked one student. Determined to "do something" about child labor, the students returned and put together an evening event for the Dover community. The event included presentations, poetry readings, exhibits about different child labor abuses, opportunities to write letters to companies abusing child labor, and demonstrations allowing community members to experience sewing and other labor as children around the world might experience it. Each 6th grade class now passes the project on to the incoming class. So far students have: presented at the annual CLEA conference, traveled to a statewide gathering to discuss child labor issues with Rep. Bernie Sanders, developed and presented the community evening event, and taken over the school's UNICEF fund raising to raise money to support access to education for children in other countries. For more information about the Dover 6th grade class, contact Sue Neuman at (802) 464 5386 or sneuman@sover.net. For information on how to start a CLEA chapter at your school, or for resources in teaching about child labor issues and how child labor practices affect a child's access to education go to www.clea.site.edu or contact Mary Gannon at (802) 258 3230, mary.gannon@site.edu.

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