February
27
Soc 8: Feb 27 Pc time to research individual who has made a difference…
- Students have an assignment to find an individual who has made some contribution to their country, community or society. They will be constructing a poster to represent this individual’s accomplishments. For next class, they should have all the information necessary to begin composing that information on their poster.
- Also, I approached the students today with a challenge to them. There was a child fatality in Calgary over the holiday break. A parent left her two-year old child in the vehicle while it was running when she ran a quick errand in a nearby store. While she was away from the vehicle, the child got out of the car seat, was able to use the power window button to let the window down, and while she had her head through the window she accidentally pressed against the button again and the window was closed on her neck. The child was heard or found by a nearby stranger who removed her from the window and, since they could not revive her, set her in the seat and ran to the nearest store to call 911. While the stranger was making the call, the mother returned to her vehicle, saw her two kids sleeping (so she thought) and left the scene to continue on with her errands. It wasn’t for another forty minutes until she realized her child had died.
There is no law against leaving children in a running vehicle in Saskatchewan or Alberta, possibly even in all of Canada, but maybe there should be. In the past, power windows were not equipped in every automobile so the likelihood of trouble was less with the majority of vehicles having manual windows. Now, with so many power window vehicles, maybe we should have a new law enacted to protect children in these vehicles. As we have been discussing in our studies, laws in Canada change as the needs of Canadians change. Maybe this law is something Canada is ready for. The students all seemed interested in trying to do something so we’re going to give this ‘something’ a try. We’ll keep you posted and see how things go.