136-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 complaine

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136-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 deems that to assuage local traffic accidents, all the students should take the driver's education course, and due to other reasons, only the course open at Centerville High School can be available. After examining the evidence cited by the author to support the recommendation, however, several questions appear and need to be answered by the author, or they will weaken the reliability of the argument.

First, the author mentions several accidents involved teenage drivers happened during last two years and unfairly assumes that teenage drivers should take all the re...

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