2nd graders experience geography with Armand k

          On the 26th of November I took an enlightening journey to the second grade computer labs. In which my ultra verse was to help a second grader named Cairo with the fundamentals of Google Earth. After having extensive practices on Google earth during class time, I had the knowledge and skills to teach a second grader. Luckily Armand and I were paired with a student who already knew how to use Google earth quite effectively, and we can partly thank the class before us, that taught them first. The student we got partnered with was named Cairo. Cairo was well behaved, and was a little bit shy, he might have been afraid of my hairstyle which made me look  like some sort of Mexican thug. But over all he was smart, and he had a lot of background knowledge on the places we were visiting in the program. As said Armand and I were lucky not only because of his knowledge, but because he was open to suggestions, unlike some other kids we heard about.  

China changes mindset after failed one child policy

               It took the Chinese government 53 years to realize that their 'oh so brilliant' one child policy was a failure. From the start, it was quite obvious that this policy wouldn't work out. The first oblivious problem would be enforcing this law, and since the Chinese population is rapidly growing from an already bloated state, how would they make sure every citizen were to follow the policy. Was the Chinese government expecting each and every one of their citizens to be law abiding? We learned that from the years that this policy has been in existence, families would have these 'secret' children, which basically are children who didn't have any records of being born. Although you actually had families that followed the law and only had one child. These families that chose to obey the policy would most probably chose to have boys. This meant that if they had a girl during their first pregnancy they would abort it, and try again for a boy. This eventually led to an imbalance in the sex ratios in China, and not to mention the ageing population too. It is estimated that there are 200 million people over the age of 60, but that number is expected to double in the next 20 years. The result of having an old population means that there are less people working, and these elderly rely on money made from working citizens to come in as their retirement fund. This is why China reconsidered their harsh one child policy, and is now less strict about it.