Kendal Carpenter
Text critique of three big problems with school choice that supporters don`t like to talk about
Text Critique 1 The article “three big problems with school “choice” that supporters don’t like to talk about” by Valerie Strauss is a very persuadable topic. The topic of this article is over the choice between the student going to a public education or a private/ charter school. She uses many premises and it comes down to one claim in the end. Her premises and thoughts all support the final claim. Throughout Valerie’s writing she uses multiple rhetorical devices to make her argument stronger to persuade the reader. Her first premise is that “Privatized school choice will inevitably reduce funding for your local neighborhood public schools.” She stated that taxpayers are paying for our children’s education and that their money goes with the student whether it be private schools, public schools or charter schools. It is argued by many people that the money is “backpacked” and that the money follows the student to where they go, but it doesn’t affect the public schools. She says in the article that it isn’t true. The second premise that is
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Troupes are rhetorical devices such as metaphors, similes, irony, satire, paralyses, puns, aphorisms, hyperbole, and others. The first thing she used is a metaphor talking about the backpacks. She compares the backpacks to students going to new schools. Representing the students as backpacks she tells about the taxpayers funding each student as the backpacks. She then uses analogy explaining the taxpayer’s money going to new schools. She uses a child going off to college. The upkeep keeps going up that is considered to the room and board so to say. Then the budget and bank account of the family goes down. Paying thousands of moneys out of pocket to send their children off to college. She also uses the group of students leaving your local public