Toulmin Analysis

Toulmin Analysis

In the school, the measure of the student’s success would be a getting a good grade. It is no exaggeration to say that the school grade determines students’ future because the GPA would be the first thing that will be reviewed when entering a company. There will be a lot of issues that students and schools have to deal with to step forward to their success. Not every student in the school would be successful nor all teachers can make their students succeed. There may be issues on school system, students’ performance, and etc. Among these issues, the author Patrick Welsh says that the parenting gap is the most important issue that the school needs to help with, in his article, “Making the Grade Isn't About Race. It's About Parents.” Should schools need to help bridge the parenting gap? Welsh claims that the lack of a father in their lives had undermined their poor education, not the race.

At first, Welsh supports his claim by asserting about how the school administrator have the fixation view on race. Last year, Morton Sherman, the new superintendent ordered principals throughout the Alexandria city to post the test score in their hallways between white, black, and Hispanic students. Welsh also added that the parenting gap is not what community activists and school administrators at T.C. Williams or around the country focus on. They cast the difference between kids who are succeeding in school and those who are not in terms of race and seem obsessed with what they call “the gap” between the test scores of white and black students.Yasir Hussein, a student of Welsh who entered the engineering program at Virginia Tech this fall, was influenced and motivated by his parents for his school. He said “Knowing how hard my parents worked simply to give me the opportunity to get an education in America, it was hard for me not to care about getting good grades.” Moreover, the school superintendents