Selective Schools Argumentative Analysis

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The issue of whether selective schools justly divide students from their peers has been on debate since NSW Education Minister Rob Stoke recently mentioned he would like to open selective schools to local students. In response to the issue, Rachael Jacobs argues that selective schools segregate children unfairly in her online publication published January 13, 2018, “End the selective school obsession.” Accompanied by a photograph, Grace Leung contends that selective schools allow talented and disadvantaged students to reach their full potential in her alternative view published 10 days later, “We’d all miss out if selective schools were discontinued.”
Immediately establishing selective schools as “equitable” and “unethical,” Jacobs aggressively uses loaded language coupled with the question, “why is NSW obsessed with [selective …show more content…

Adding to this imagery, Leung sarcastically rejects Jacobs’ ideas of mixed-ability classrooms by using the question, “should we keep him with the others in hopes that keeping them together will make everyone else better?” Parents are urged to feel as if selective schooling better accommodates children for their own abilities rather than the abilities of others. Just as Jacobs finishes her article with inclusive language, so too does Leung by stating, “we all miss out if options and opportunities are taken away.” Leung suggests that parents, students, and teachers would “all” suffer from the abolishment of selective schools, as it encourages them to feel as if selective schools promote better education and individual

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