A student is writing an argumentative letter to the principal about a plan to have students attend school during the summer months. Read the paragraphs from the draft of the student's letter and complete the task that follows. I am writing in opposition to your proposal to extend the school year. I also urge you to consider carefully recommendations from everyone who would be affected- staff, parents, the community, and especially students- before making your decision. With so many changes occurring in education, a hasty decision would do more harm than good. One reason I oppose your plan to extend the school year is that both students and parents are likely to oppose it. The students are the ones affected by this decision, and a survey by our school newspaper found that 76 percent of them like our schedule as it is. I am a member of the newspaper staff, and I helped conduct the survey. These students are likely to influence their parents' views. If that happens, you will be bombarded with hundreds of emails and phone calls, insisting that kids are perfectly capable of learning without an extension of the school year. Your email inbox would fill up in a hurry. Even if parents agree with you, there's still the fact that when students are unhappy, their academic success rate goes down. That could undermine any additional learning achieved during the added time in class. Choose the two sentences that should be removed from the second paragraph because they do not support the underlined sentence A The students are the ones affected by this decision, and a survey by our school newspaper found that 76 percent of them like our schedule as it is. B I am a member of the newspaper staff, and I helped conduct the survey. C These students are likely to influence their parents' views. D If that happens, you will be bombarded with hundreds of emails and phone calls, insisting that kids are perfectly capable of learning without an extension of the school year. E Your email inbox would fill up in a hurry. F Even i
