Day 132 All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School

The following appeared in a letter to the school board in the town of Centerville.

“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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

五问：

（1）“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”和“Although there are two driving schools in Centerville, parents on a tight budget cannot afford to pay for driving instruction”是事实，“All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School”是结论，值得反驳吗？

（2）在过去两年间发生的事情是否在今后还会继续发生？我们能否将已有经验简单地认定为必定会重复的事实？

（3）尽管有些事故涉及了青少年司机，但是事故一定是由该地区的青少年司机造成的吗？是否可能这些司机并非来自 Centerville？是否可能被涉及的青少年并不是司机？是否可能这些事故不是由司机造成，而是由不遵守交通规则的行人造成的？

（4）抱怨没有时间教孩子开车的家长占的比例有多大？是否具有代表性？他们所抱怨的是否事实？

（5）原文中提及了两所驾驶学校，是否两者收费都很贵？除了学校开设课程外，是否还有其他解决的方法？你能描述其中的一两个情形吗？例如：学生可以让有驾照并且有丰富驾驶经验的同学或者朋友教自己开车。