GRE作文新增的argument题目(2)_GRE写作

GRE作文新增的argument题目(2)

　　the following appeared in a report by the school district of eyleria.

　　nationally, the average ratio of computers to students in kindergarten through grade 12 is 1:5. educators indicate that this is very good ratio. this means that across the country, all students have access to and can use computers daily in their classrooms. in eylerias k-12 schools, the ratio of computers to students is 1:7. this number is sufficient to ensure that all of eylerias students, by the time they graduate from high school, will be fully proficient in the use of computer technology. thus, there is no reason to spend any of the schools budget on computers or other technology in the next few years.

　　the following appeared as a letter to the editor of a local solano newspaper.

　　the solano school district should do away with its music education programs. after all, music programs are not especially popular in our schools: only 20 percent of our high school students participated in music programs last year. furthermore, very few of the solano districts college- bound students are interested in majoring in music at the university level. also, when the school district of our neighboring town of rutherford eliminated its music programs two years ago, the overall grade point average in the high school increased by 10 percent the next year. surely the money spent on solano music programs could be better used to improve the quality of traditional academic courses.