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I disagree all of thouse who support Tom's shoes 👠 .

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Boco To
I disagree with all of those who supports Tom's Shoes! They are used to not wearing shoes, so what are the kids going to do if their shabby shoes worn out?

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Callum 7a

We should learn about how companies are ruining other companies by doing one for one projects

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I think instead of buy one give one, the product should be given to a charity.

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I think they should give some of their profit to actual charities instead of keeping them all to themselves or give more shoes to make it even but that will put people in shoe business out of buisiness.

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Maybe Tom shoes can do buy 1 give 12

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Tom's shoes should give out more daily essentials instead of shoes.

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Tom’s shoes can’t help anyone.Poor people in Africa need water and electricity and they don’t need Tom’s shoes
Tommy7D

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They should be giving out food and water. It's still good that they hand out shoes but food, medicine and water are the most important for these people to live
- Sofia 7D

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We should think about what we need and what we don’t need
and DONATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HEELP PEOPLE IN NEED.-Zo3😜

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Tom shoes are useless because they only give shoes, water and food are much useful-Nathan 7D

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They should worry about water electricity not shoes

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I think they should worry about the other issues not only shoes like water and shelter.
-Nichola 7B

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Karen 7b

I think that Tom's shoes shouldn't do buy one give one. In stead they should do buy one give three and donate ten dollars to a reliable charity. Because they sell the shoes for sixty dollars and cost four dollars to make  so they are keeping a lot of money and just say buy one give one to make them selves sound good.

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Personally, I learnt that sometimes if you have leftover money, give it to donation centers etc. Tom's shoes is a good example. Their $60 dollar shoes only cost $4 to manufacture. You use $60 to buy $4 shoes, then another pair goes out to someone in need. $52 left right? And what would you do with that remaining money? As we all know that the owner of Tom's Shoes, Blake Mycoski uses that remaining money all to himself. $52 is precious, it might not be much, but there is so much you could do with just $52 American dollars we are talking about here. Learning from this, if we applied this to our work on the Global Goals, we could possibly be donating millions of dollars to donations/charity companies to save more than millions of lives!---Ryan So (7B)

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Personally, I learnt that sometimes if you have leftover money, give it to donation centers etc. Tom's shoes is a good example. Their $60 dollar shoes only cost $4 to manufacture. You use $60 to buy $4 shoes, then another pair goes out to someone in need. $52 left right? And what would you do with that remaining money? As we all know that the owner of Tom's Shoes, Blake Mycoski uses that remaining money all to himself. $52 is precious, it might not be much, but there is so much you could do with just $52 American dollars we are talking about here. Learning from this, if we applied this to our work on the Global Goals, we could possibly be donating millions of dollars to donations/charity companies to save more than millions of lives!---Ryan So (7B)

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Personally, I learnt that sometimes if you have leftover money, give it to donation centers etc. Tom's shoes is a good example. Their $60 dollar shoes only cost $4 to manufacture. You use $60 to buy $4 shoes, then another pair goes out to someone in need. $52 left right? And what would you do with that remaining money? As we all know that the owner of Tom's Shoes, Blake Mycoski uses that remaining money all to himself. $52 is precious, it might not be much, but there is so much you could do with just $52 American dollars we are talking about here. Learning from this, if we applied this to our work on the Global Goals, we could possibly be donating millions of dollars to donations/charity companies to save more than millions of lives!---Ryan So (7B)

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Personally, I learnt that sometimes if you have leftover money, give it to donation centers etc. Tom's shoes is a good example. Their $60 dollar shoes only cost $4 to manufacture. You use $60 to buy $4 shoes, then another pair goes out to someone in need. $52 left right? And what would you do with that remaining money? As we all know that the owner of Tom's Shoes, Blake Mycoski uses that remaining money all to himself. $52 is precious, it might not be much, but there is so much you could do with just $52 American dollars we are talking about here. Learning from this, if we applied this to our work on the Global Goals, we could possibly be donating millions of dollars to donations/charity companies to save more than millions of lives!---Ryan So (7B)

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Personally, I learnt that sometimes if you have leftover money, give it to donation centers etc. Tom's shoes is a good example. Their $60 dollar shoes only cost $4 to manufacture. You use $60 to buy $4 shoes, then another pair goes out to someone in need. $52 left right? And what would you do with that remaining money? As we all know that the owner of Tom's Shoes, Blake Mycoski uses that remaining money all to himself. $52 is precious, it might not be much, but there is so much you could do with just $52 American dollars we are talking about here.

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Lucy 7D

I don't think toms shoes is a good idea because people can live with out shoes and they don't care if
Other people do, I think if he want some to make money she should think of something that they might not afford like clothes , food, pencils etc and shoes can not really help with poverty because he gets more of the money.

And that is why I don't think his shoe company will make a huge success.

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Lucy 7D

I don't think toms shoes is a good idea because people can live with out shoes and they don't care if
Other people do, I think if he want some to make money she should think of something that they might not afford like clothes , food, pencils etc and shoes can not really help with poverty because he gets more of the money.

And that is why I don't think his shoe company will make a huge success.

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Nina Zheng 8A.                                                                                                                                                                          I do not think Toms shoes is a great idea because it is not the most important thing that they need and he should have found out what people want. They do give shoes when when someone buys them.

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Nina Zheng 8A

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I think that Tom's Shoes are inconveniencing people by just giving people shoes. Why don’t they donate their cash gained from their business and donate that to charity? -Vinh

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I think Toms giving shoes is not the best idea because it is not the most important thing that they need and they could still survive without shoes but on the other hand, I think it is still nice because it is still helping other people and making them feel more comfortable. After I wouldn't really say that Toms were lying because the shoes that they give out are free and they are still helping children. Even though we pay a lot to buy one pair of shoes but in return we are helping people at the same time. ~Caresse 8A

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I wouldn’t say I agree or not agree on what Blake Mycoskie is doing, because he’s just doing what other companies are doing which is earning money.  but just giving free shoes to some people doesn’t have new shoes. For us is no harm because It costs the same as other shoes that look similar to Toms shoes (vans and converse ) they all cost around 50-70usd. But for some local shoe shops they will have a big chance of losing their jobs and Toms company provides most kids new pair of shoes. So that’s why I’m not disagreeing or agreeing with Blake’s action. -nicole 8a

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Ask your self about the requirements for the poor and needy. Is free shoes a part of it? In the video of 'Adam ruins everything',  Adam's Ugandan friend Teddy states that shoes are not one of the important priorities to help Uganda thrive. They've got so many worries such as diseases, unemployment, electricity, water, food and way more. If the owner is that bothered about poor people, he should sell various shoes and give 3/4 of his profit to the poor children instead of shoes.  By Rohan 7B

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Yuha 7A
I think Toms is doing what is right. Some might think that they are frankly, damaging economy of poor countries and it is understandable but not really true. Toms has shoe companies in Haiti, Argentina and few other countries where they hire local people which actually helps the economy of those countries. Ok, you might say shoes are not the most important things for people who are desperate for food. But that's why Toms is giving away shoes. People who have a choice between food and a pair of shoes, they will go for food because that is more important. By giving children shoes, Toms is actually making it possible for people to have both food and a pair of shoes. And what if Toms gets alot of profit by doing this campaign. Children still get shoes and they are happy about it. If you think about it, some companies makes unbelievably high profit and don't do any good work.
Furthermore, Toms sells different items for different purposes such as every bag donates money to help elephants or to filter water to make it drinkable. So Toms is doing a really great job.

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Allen- 8b at the start, I thought Toms shoes was a great idea, but after deeply learning about Toms shoes. I fell those that bought these shoes are being rigged because they pay 60 bucks and it only worth 4

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I honestly think shoes are the least needed item for the poor I think someone should make a company where they recycle paper and make notebooks or recycle things to make pencils or something they can be creative with that they can get them education as well. They should make more recycling bins around the world because unless there is actually recycling bins near them people would put their garbage in the in a normal bin where the garbage could just go to waste if its something that can be reused. -anne 7b

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according to a civilian, the brand 'tom's shoes' is trying to scam us into buying their products. their video advertisement starts off with a handful of kids looking depressed, lonely or in need of something. then incomes a huge parcel filled to the brim with shoes in amazing quality, they come in a varied amount of specific sizes that seem to fit the kids absolutely perfectly. this got me thinking: how much effort did they put into the add? do they always apply that same amount of effort, or is it just to please people? plus, some of these children might not have known what shoes were/are before this add, so what makes them desperate now? instead of giving children shoes they don't need, i think that we should send medications, toiletries and female hygiene products to those in need. speaking of those in need, the civilian i mentioned before said that the advert was filmed in the most underprivileged area in this country. the majority of the people there, are living just like you and me! -sunny 8a

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I think they should give out things like water instead of shoes. Meisa 7B

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Philine Kotanko                                                                                                                                                              giving out TOMS shoes is really generous and the idea of letting his profit down to help other people that are in more need to get shoes. In the video, the children who got shoes where smiling over both ears. As a producer of shoes, he does what he can, giving children the shoes he produces.

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Charlie - Look into the product you are buying before you do so you can make sure that they do what they say they will do

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Chloe-7A I think shoes are not the biggest problem so far and I think toms shoes should stop it because it's a waste of material and toms shoes is actually doing nothing to the children, since they get used to not wearing shoes. Also in the video toms shoes only help children, they didn't really help adult.

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Leon Helmersson 7A

To be able to build a business with a purpose of helping others it needs to make profits to sustain.

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I think that shoes isn't really a big problem because there are shoe shops in the area and if toms shoes come along giving shoes to everyone, it will make those shops run out of business.

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chloe-7d - I don't like toms shoes because they are giving children and other peope things that they dont really need. They need: water, food and somewhere to live. Also they are trying to solve a problem which is so small that it isnt really a problem. There is also not point in giving shoes to children because all that they are going to do is grow out of them.

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Alessandro 7b- I do not like toms “one for one” because honestly Toms is giving something these children something that they really don’t need right now. What they do need is a good home with clean water and money to buy food for they’re family not some shoes that will last you like 2 years. All their trying to do is to seem like their doing something nice but actually in my opinion it’s pointless.

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Jaden 8A (I missed the lesson btw) - As I said, because I missed the lesson, I am not as clear as other people are on this topic. But judging from the videos I saw on the link, I am not in too much favour of Tom. First of all, charities are meant to be non-profitable organisation, or if they are, very little profit are supposed to be made. I personally think selling a shoe for 60 dollars and then basically giving 4 dollars away is ridiculous. Also, for many people who suffers poverty, a pair of shoes won't be much of a priority when they are struggling to survive 1 day. From my perspective, they only take it because it is free. It will be much more useful to build a well or help them get food. Overall, I am against the organisation and only real thing I learnt is to actually help people in poverty with pure kind heart, and not try to fish some money out of something you are not supposed to.

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Jaden 8A (Warning: I missed the lesson entirely because of music lessons)

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We should donate things people need the most( clothes,food,housing)                                          -Alishia 7B

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If the people who live in poverty only needed cheap accessories, than why is there still economic markets going on? The only thing that can reduce poverty is money because it accelerates economy, and it's very versatile, if you gave them money, than what's going to be there to stop it being used? I mean, there are people selling shoes, the main problem is the fact that no-one's there to buy them, same applies for food, and all of them are equally important, and what can we use to get them without ruining local economy? Money. If you really wanted to directly give them shoes, then fine, give the shoe seller a pair as well, but then once you stop giving it to them, they will instantly end up living passively in a place with no money to survive on themselves whatsoever. On a more social side, it creates a stereotype that poor people are passive and useless.

By far the most disappointing fact is that they are earning too much profit, instead of being a nonprofit organization, I know, they don't have to be nonprofit to be effective,but at least give some of the profit to the poor people, at least they will then have some cash!

------------Steven Gu 7A

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do people need shooes to be honest shooes dosent cost that much espically when they are in like shop like a random house in the village

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Charis Wong 8A

I think that even though people think that they have been lied to Tom's shoes actually never lied because    they do give shoes when someone buys them. Even though if we buy the shoes for $60 and they give the people $4 worth of shoes I think that no matter how bad the quality of the shoes are the childrens will be happy and will still take it. But when Tom's shoes are giving out shoes for free the companies that make shoes and buy shoes might lose there jobs. No matter what Tom's shoes still help the children's.

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Hayley Dodd 8B - Although at the beginning I thought toms shoes was a good idea, i was still skeptical about how they earn there profit and how much profit they make, since they are selling a pair of shoes as well as giving a pair away.  After some research i found that the pair they give away only uses $4 to make and break quite easily.  Why give a pair of shoes away to those who need it if they will break easily?  And maybe the reasons some parts of the world are less wealthy and unlucky are because people are giving away shoes, clothes, and even food, the shops that surround those places may go out of business.  Therefore those parts of the world may rely on us and not buy there own things.  I feel as if toms shoes promotes a view of the world's poor as helpless, ineffective people passively waiting for whatnot from shoe-buying people.  We should help, not by sitting and watching people make a profit, but by making the world a better place.

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Tom's pretends it's doing a good thing and it fools their customers into thinking they're doing something good too when actually there paying for an overpriced pair of shoes that gives a child in Africa a pair of shoes that they don't need and putting shoemakers out of business. The moral of this? 'Take everything with a pinch of salt' Lottie J

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Bryant Cheng 7C - I think that instead of just giving out shoes, TOMS can sell other resources people need like clean water or food so they don't starve.

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Ava
Even though Tom’s shoes is still making profit. They are still giving children who can’t afford shoes, shoes. They might not be at the same quality, but when you’re very poor and pretty helpless I think that you will take what you can get. Tom’s shoes never actually lied about “The One for One program”. Tom’s specialises in shoe making so although they could just donate money to help with electricity shortage they gave their shoes. It might be small but I do think they made a difference in those children’s lives.

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daisy 8b- before you buy something you should always find out some more about the company

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its good to do nice things for people but I think he should have found out what people actually want like food, water etc. Vashanna

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Boco To 7A
I think that a lesson we should learn from Tom's outrageous business trick is that when attempting to solve an enormous dilemma in society such as poverty, you don't just "assume they want shoes and products"; what one should do is dig into the problem by speaking to and asking the locals what the real problem is (in this case food and services etc.), then find a way to resolve the problem, not just handing out products to advertise themselves. To tackle the Global Goals and the Global Challenge, we must deal with the situation in a mature way, know what the situation actually is like. Furthermore, instead of believing someone else is going to solve the dilemma when you watch a lying advert from a greedy business,  take action yourself! Most importantly, DON'T EVER RELY ON A COMPANY WITHOUT EVEN DOING RESEARCH ABOUT THE COMPANY!!! The Global Goals are just there so that people like us know about what is the world currently like, not there for us to sit back, relax, pay some money to some random business who wants to get rich, who CLAIMS they are helping children by giving them shoes, something they really do not need at all. IT'S JUST NOT SUPPOSED TO WORK LIKE THIS!!! SERIOUSLY!!!

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Boco To 7A
I think that a lesson we should learn from Tom's outrageous business trick is that when attempting to solve an enormous dilemma in society such as poverty, you don't just "assume they want shoes and products"; what one should do is dig into the problem by speaking to and asking the locals what the real problem is (in this case food and services etc.), then find a way to resolve the problem, not just handing out products to advertise themselves. To tackle the Global Goals and the Global Challenge, we must deal with the situation in a mature way, know what the situation actually is like. Furthermore, instead of believing someone else is going to solve the dilemma when you watch a lying advert from a greedy business,  take action yourself! Most importantly, DON'T EVER RELY ON A COMPANY WITHOUT EVEN DOING RESEARCH ABOUT THE COMPANY!!! The Global Goals are just there so that people like us know about what is the world currently like, not there for us to sit back, relax, pay some money to some random business who wants to get rich, who CLAIMS they are helping children by giving them shoes, something they really do not need at all. It's just NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK!!!

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Boco To 7A
I think that a lesson we should learn from Tom's outrageous business trick is that when attempting to solve an enormous dilemma in society such as poverty, you don't just "assume they want shoes and products"; what one should do is dig into the problem by speaking to and asking the locals what the real problem is (in this case food and services etc.), then find a way to resolve the problem, not just handing out products to advertise themselves. To tackle the Global Goals and the Global Challenge, we must deal with the situation in a mature way, know what the situation actually is like. Furthermore, instead of believing someone else is going to solve the dilemma when you watch a lying advert from a greedy business,  take action yourself! Most importantly, DON'T EVER RELY ON A COMPANY WITHOUT EVEN DOING RESEARCH ABOUT THE COMPANY!!! The Global Goals are just there so that people like us know about what is the world currently like, not there for us to sit back, relax, pay some money to some random business who wants to get rich, who CLAIMS they are helping children by giving them shoes, something they really do not need at all.

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don't buy something before thinking and researching about it

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lisa kang 7a
I think they should donate what the children actually need instead of something they can be without of.

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Boco To 7A

My opinion is that Tom's Shoes is stealing the charitable hearts of customers by tricking them. Look at how much profit the company gets when a customer buys a pair of shoes! Only about 10%of the price paid by the customer is used to manufacture and give out shoes. What a ripoff! Also, Tom's did not even care that what those in poverty need are things far more significant than shoes - food, water etc.

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There is always good and bad things about doing thing, but It would be better to know clearly what people want ,by  sonia

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Search or ask some people who are trying to help for what they really need instead just give something they don't want or don't need rachel

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Don't always believe what people say-Susannah

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We should think about possible bad effects from our actions. For example taking money from African business. Erik

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Ask about things instead of assuming things
- Annabel, Jasmin, Ebbe, Jasmijn

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Brendan, don't buy something before thinking and researching about it

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Just because people are saying they are doing a good thing doesn’t mean they are doing a good thing-Aaron