12 Augst ARGUMENT74

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The statement of the speaker concludes that the state should concentrate all efforts on the academic education in high school and give up the vocational training program. However, in my opinion, many of them can be challenged and the conclusion is also open to doubt.

By the primary reason，the vocational training program for high school dropouts may encourage student who would otherwise have graduated to drop out school is lack of foundations. No evidence indicates that student taken the vocational training program would drop school. In other word, it is possible for the student participated the training would not drop school and even become more interest in their high school courses. Maybe during the study of practical skills they find it is more difficult to make lives rather than study at school. Or it is also probable that such specific skill training for student may spur the inspiration on certain subject in high school study. For example, classical physics is considered as a boring subject for many teenagers, but if student learn it with concrete practice such as how levers and pulley use in transporting area it may be much easier to understand. Indeed, they may find that not all the classical physical principles are hard to learn. Judging the example presented above it is obvious that study is forthepurposeofapplication and practice can also promote study.

Secondly, even though the vocational training program is probable encourage students to drop school; it must not be the reason of lowering, not rising, the average earning potential of young people. Earning potential is determined by the synthetic quality of an employee. Whether he or she could competence the job is one of the aspects of the estimating standard. Passion, responsibility, professionalethics and even personal character are all the elements which can influence the earning potential. Students can take vocational training in the program, but more courses are taken in schools, societies and even the working position the will go in the future. So the speaker said that vocational training program “would lower, not rise, the average earning potential of young people” is unjust.

Thirdly, the speaker concludes that the state should concentrate on improving the academic programs, because of the harm of vocational training program. Between this reason and result there is no necessary connect too. On one hand, even though the vocational training’s disadvantages overweigh the benefits, more efforts should be pay on improving the existing program but to drop the program. On the other hand, there may be other treatment to school dropouts. Only focus on the academic education in highs school cannot resolve the problems of the high school dropouts.

In sum, to persuade us to believe that the state should focus on the academic education in high school without a vocational training program, the speaker must give us more connection between the reasons and results which indicate the vocational training program is really harmful and the academic program is helpful.