Question

Which claim does the following piece of evidence best support?

Claim A: The school day should not be lengthened, because as life becomes more stressful, the students need downtime more than ever.
Claim B: Now that students need to know more than ever before we need a longer school day to cover everything.
Evidence: Our school has recently added four new graduation requirements: computer literacy, health and nutrition, drivers ed, and a foreign language.

Answer 1

A. Claim B, because it provides evidence that schools have to cover more subjects.

Step-by-step explanation:

The evidence supports Claim B more than it does Claim A because logically since there are more subjects added to the graduation requirements, you would need more hours in the school day to go finish these subjects in addition to the pre-existing ones required to graduate. Although you may disagree, the claim is better supported. The other options don't really make much sense, nor give defensible reasons.