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136) The following appeared in a letter to the school board in the town of Centerville.
All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School. In the past two years, several accidents in and around Centerville have involved teenage drivers. Since a number of parents in Centerville have complained that they are too busy to teach their teenagers to drive, some other instruction is necessary to ensure that these teenagers are safe drivers. Although there are two driving schools in Centerville, parents on a tight budget cannot afford to pay for driving instruction. Therefore an effective and mandatory program sponsored by the high school is the only solution to this serious problem.

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.

In this letter, the author advocates that the Centerville High School should sponsor a driver's education course for their students to prevent them from suffering the increasing traffic accidents. Indeed, it is the school's responsibility to educate and protect these teenage drivers, but the author's argument is rife with holes and based on untenable premise, which is not sufficient to persuade the school to adopt the proposal.

First of all, the author fails to point out the proportion of the teenage drivers who involved in the accidents around Centerville during the past two years and the virtually causes of these accidents, thus it is quite possible that merely one in one hundred teenage drivers suffered the accidents which is obviously in an appropriate range. Besides, we can also reasonable assume that most of these accidents were caused by drunk or overspeed adult drivers, while the teenage drivers were just the sufferers. Therefore, without specific data about the ratio of teenage drivers and the information of these accidents, we cannot evaluate whether the teenage drivers in Centerville need the driver's education course.

In the second place, even though some parents do not have time to teach their teenagers, there is no guarantee that they also cannot afford to pay for driving instruction in particular driving schools. Actually, as we all know that in most cases, the busy work will bring more revenue, thus it is very likely that these engaged parents have enough money to send their children to attend the driving schools. While the relatively budget tight parents might have sufficient time to teach the children to drive safety. Thus if these situations are actually affirmed, there is definitely no need for the school to sponsor the driving course because the teenage drivers have enough condition to get the education outside the school.

The last but not least, granted that the flaws mentioned above finally turn out to accord with the author’s argument, he or she also fails to consider whether the Centerville High School has enough funding to support the additional driver's education course. It is common sense that opening such a course needs to engage another professor to ensure the course's professional and also requires more teaching facilities that are relevant to the course, hence there is no doubt that a large number of funding is requisite. If the funding of the school is exactly afford the contemporary course offering, the driving course would not be sponsored unless they can obtain more funding or charge more tuition fees from the students. However, both of the solutions need profound investigations and discussions.

To sum up, the reasons in the letter mentioned by the author are not based on valid evidence, most of which are dispensable for a conclusive argument. To cite the proposal better, the author should reason more convincingly and provide more accurate information about the accidents and the school’s situation. In addition, protecting the teenage drivers’ safety is not only the responsibility of the school, but also the duty of their parents.

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