Self-study
Although Support the charter of Westside School states that the student body must include some students with special educational needs, Support no students with learning disabilities have yet enrolled in the school. ██████████ ███ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ████████
Summary
Westside is currently in violation of its charter. If Westside were following its charter, it would have some students with special needs. (Contrapositive: if Westside doesn’t have any students with special needs, it isn’t following its charter.) But Westside doesn’t have any students with learning disabilities.
Missing Connection
The first premise is about special needs, but the second premise is about learning disabilities. How do we know those are interchangeable? If Westside had students with special needs that weren’t learning disabilities, it would be following its charter.
Therefore, to guarantee his conclusion, the author must assume that all students with special needs have learning disabilities. (Contrapositive: all students without learning disabilities do not have special needs.)
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This is the reverse of what we want. If Westside has students with special needs, it’s following its charter. (A) leaves open the possibility that Westside has students with special needs but not learning disabilities. Consequently, it doesn’t guarantee the author’s conclusion.
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The stimulus already told us this; the gap in the argument is that the school might have students with special needs, but not learning disabilities.
c
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This is an “ought” statement about the school should do. But the argument in the stimulus is about what the school actually is doing.
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Contrapositive: all students without learning disabilities are not special needs students. If so, given that no Westside students have learning disabilities, we know that none of them have special needs. Thus, the school is violating its charter.
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The author’s conclusion is that the charter is currently being violated, so this is irrelevant.