Today, our 8th graders tried something a bit different with our current events discussion.  Instead of a larger group discussion, we broke up into smaller groups to debate the merits of the following question:

who should be responsible for setting a minimum wage: the government or individual companies?

Students read about this topic as it relates to Amazon’s announcement in which they were raising their minimum wage for employees to $15 per hour.  If you want to participate in our discussion (or at least continue it at home), check out the link below.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/10/02/amazon-minimum-wage-jeff-bezos-bernie-sanders.html