Animals should not be used to test products
Since time immemorial, animals have been used to test products such as beauty products, food, and other essential products used by humans. These tests are aimed to establish whether the products could cause pain to people, suffering, poisonous, or are generally unfit for human consumption. However, such tests have subjected these animals to multiple sufferings, death, or subjected to cruel circumstances that do not only contain an existential threat to them but also perpetuates cruelty against animals in different ways. Therefore, the use of animals to test products should be discouraged or abandoned, and other alternative testing methods put in place. The following are the reasons why using animals for testing should be discouraged.
First, it violates the rights of these animals as the animals are subjected to a morally disrespectful treatment with people feigning knowledge that animals feel, behave, and experience pain just like humans. Additionally, the animals are subjected to multiple pain and sufferings during these tests, an aspect that does not only have fewer benefits to humans but also marks the end of existence, threatening the existence of such animals. Finally, testing of the products could be done using other alternative ways that are not necessarily using the animals since most cosmetic companies could develop other testing mechanisms towards such initiative.
Students should not be going to school year around
In Canada, students go to school all year round except on public holidays, Christmas break, and mid-winter break. However, even if the breaks are granted, these breaks do not last for over two weeks. Therefore, the busy schedule in the schooling process has rendered students in Canada to be always on heels with school-related activities. The schedule is detrimental to the students in different ways. First, it puts the learners under constant pressure to attend school and actively engage in school programs, leaving them with little time to refresh and internalize the concepts they have learned. Again, the continuous cycle of schooling decreases the family time since the students spend relatively fewer times with their parents during vacations as the school schedules are always tight. Additionally, it offers the students with fewer learning opportunities that characterize traditional holidays or vacations.
Girls and boys should not attend gender-specific schools
Though gender-specific schools are not many in Canada, their existence has elicited multiple debates. The proponents of such initiatives see it as a platform for getting rid of distractions and allowing the students to focus on essential learning issues. However, gender-specific schools do little in the development of the students in the following ways, and it should be immensely encouraged.
First, single-gender schools create an environment that prepares neither the girls nor boys a platform to interact with the opposite sex effectively. On the same note, the existence of single-gender schools impedes all the efforts of different government agencies to inculcate co-existence between the genders. Finally, encouraging single-gender schools could act as the first step towards gender gaps and other gender-related stereotypes as one gender could perceive itself superior to the other.