In this memo, the superintendent of the Mylar school district recommends that all Mylar's elementary and secondary schools should have breakfasts plan for student to improve academic performance. To support this recommendation he points out a study examined among students which has shown students who have had breakfasts plan were less absent from or late for school than other students. He also cites that eating a healthful breakfast regularly will help the students perform their educational affairs better. Careful scrutiny to these evidence, reveals that it lends little credence to this argument for several reasons.
First, the author fails to provide sufficient evidence that in the study it have been merely the effect of breakfast plan in the school that decreased students’ absenteeism and tardiness. This decrease might have been due to the fact that when the students have their breakfast at school they have been already present at school. And therefore undoubtedly, they could not be absent or late for school. Without considering and ruling out these and other possible causes the author can not convince me that study substantially demonstrates these results.
Second, even if the results of the study are corroborated they can not be attributable to the students of whole elementary and secondary schools of Mylar. There is the probability that respondents of this study have different characteristics or tastes or special family situations which can not be ascribed to the whole students of the district. For example they might have family problems such as argumentative conflicts between their parents who can not concentrate on their children healthy nutrition and having breakfast before school. Without considering and ruling out these and other distinct characteristics of the respondents of study it would not seem reasonable to attribute their improvement to the whole students.
Third, the author unfairly asserts that eating a healthful breakfast regularly will help the students perform better in the school. Although I concede that having healthful nutrition would have beneficial effects on students’ health and consequently their learning, but it cannot be the only reason. There are several critical causes which deeply depend on the behavior of parents and teachers toward the children. For instance without wise parents and teachers who try to motivate and inspire children to do their best the educational improvement of children would not be guaranteed only by having a healthy breakfast.
In sum, the author fails to convince me that implementing the breakfast plan in all the schools of the district would be helpful in decreasing the students’ tardiness and absenteeism and in improving their academic performance. To bolster the argument he must account for other factors which might have influenced the result of the survey and also provides more dear information about the demographic profile of the study’s respondents. It would also be helpful to consider other factors that can have effect on academic performance of the students.
In this memo, the superintendent of the Mylar
school
district recommends that all
Mylar's
elementary and secondary
schools
should have
breakfasts
plan
for
student
to
improve
academic performance. To support this recommendation he points out a
study
examined among
students
which has shown
students
who have had
breakfasts
plan
were less absent from or late for
school
than
other
students
. He
also
cites that eating a healthful
breakfast
regularly
will
help
the
students
perform their educational affairs better. Careful scrutiny to these evidence, reveals that it lends
little
credence to this argument for several reasons.
First
, the
author
fails to provide sufficient evidence that in the
study
it
have
been
merely
the effect of
breakfast
plan
in the
school
that decreased
students’
absenteeism and tardiness. This decrease might have been due to the fact that when the
students
have their
breakfast
at
school
they have been already present at
school
. And
therefore
undoubtedly
, they could not be absent or late for
school
. Without considering and ruling out these and
other
possible causes the
author
can not convince me that
study
substantially
demonstrates these results.
Second, even if the results of the
study
are corroborated
they can not be attributable to the
students
of whole elementary and secondary
schools
of Mylar. There is the probability that respondents of this
study
have
different
characteristics or tastes or special family situations which can not
be ascribed
to the whole
students
of the district. For
example they
might have family problems such as argumentative conflicts between their parents who can not concentrate on their
children
healthy nutrition and having
breakfast
before
school
. Without considering and ruling out these and
other
distinct characteristics of the respondents of
study
it would not seem reasonable to attribute their improvement to the whole students.
Third, the
author
unfairly
asserts that eating a healthful
breakfast
regularly
will
help
the
students
perform better in the
school
. Although I concede that having healthful nutrition would have beneficial effects on
students’
health and
consequently
their learning,
but
it cannot be the
only
reason. There are several critical causes which
deeply
depend on the behavior of parents and teachers toward the
children
.
For instance
without wise parents and teachers who try to motivate and inspire
children
to do their best the educational improvement of
children
would not
be guaranteed
only
by having a healthy breakfast.
In sum, the
author
fails to convince me that implementing the
breakfast
plan
in all the
schools
of the district would be helpful in decreasing the
students’
tardiness and absenteeism and in improving their academic performance. To bolster the argument he
must
account for
other
factors which might have influenced the result of the survey and
also
provides more dear information about the demographic profile of the
study’s
respondents. It would
also
be helpful to consider
other
factors that can have effect on academic performance of the
students
.