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Summarize Argument
The author concludes that teaching assistants should not be considered university employees. This is based on an intermediate conclusion that the sole purpose of having teaching assistants is to enable them to fund their education. The intermediate conclusion is based on the fact that if teaching assistants were not pursuing their degrees at university, or if they could otherwise already pay for their education, they wouldn’t have the teaching assistant jobs.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that TA’s inability to fund their education without having the TA position implies that the only purpose of the position is to help the TAs. (This overlooks that the university might have multiple purposes behind the TA position, one of which could be to use them as they would use employees.)
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