5th Grade Attendance Question January 30, 2017

Today the question was, "Should the United States build a wall on the Mexican border?  Why or Why not?  Explain."  After an interesting discussion, surrounded around words like tolerance, taxes, budget, history, racist, and culture; one student began to brainstorm different ideas rather than building a wall.  The challenge then became to collaborative brainstorm ways to protect both country and humanity.  The following are the results of that thinking:

Use drones to patrol our boarders; send signal to a branch of the government; which would employ more people

Two screenings between US and Mexico and become better allies; we aren’t the only good people, why should we control them?  We are all about the melting pot.  If we aren’t letting people come, then are we really the melting pot?

Airplanes should always have guards on them as well as a “white hacker” (hacker for the US)

Metal detector for the passports that has a special new metal within the passport to help authenticate it as well as arming guards with bullet proof clothing

Police station along the border; people are usually coming to the United States for a good reason, and we could help provide temporary housing to help people go through the natural process

Metaphorical wall with extra and added security; immigrant has to have approval from the Mexican government with US override possibility