Read this sentence from Passage 1.
However, the four-day schedule failed to prepare Anderson for the five-day schedule of college. “Only getting two days in during the weekend killed me,” she said, “and now, a semester and a half into my freshman year of college, I still haven’t completely adjusted.”
Based on this idea, which ONE of the paragraphs below from Passage 2 presents the strongest argument for the negative impact on students that occurs when switching to a four-day week?
A“In her June 2010 article for The Associated Press, Dorie Turner profiled a school district which switched to a four-day schedule while facing a one-million-dollar budget deficit. The modification saved about $400,000 per year and enabled the school district to avoid firing about 40 teachers. The four-day schedule reportedly creates other benefits: a rise in test scores, increased attendance of students and teachers, and a higher graduation rate. In addition, students can use the extra day for sports and other extracurricular activities without sacrificing class time.”
B“The obsolete purpose of the traditional school calendar with its extended summer vacation was to allow children to help harvest crops. Year-round schooling is another school schedule experiment. One popular year-round schedule has students attending school for 45 days followed by a three-week vacation. This cycle continues throughout the year with adjustments for important holidays.”
C“School districts across the United States are experimenting with different schedules. One experiment is the four-day school week: Students attend school four days a week with each day lasting around eight hours. Typically, the prime motivation for trying the schedule is to save money.”
D“The Macomb Public School District in Oklahoma also switched back to the five-day school week after students showed no improvement in performance. During a 2015 interview with Tulsa World reporters, Superintendent Matthew Riggs cited another reason to prefer the five-day schedule: About 76% of the students in the district live in households that qualify for free or reduced-rate school meals. “There were kids I firmly believe were leaving school on Thursday and weren’t getting a good meal until Monday morning when we served breakfast again,” Riggs told the reporters.”