Read the excerpt from Jada’s argumentative essay.Teens should be required to have a job during high school. Having a job teaches responsibility and provides an opportunity to learn new skills. Learning how to juggle schoolwork, extracurricular activities, and a job is essential to helping teens acclimate to the adult world. While some teens may struggle to keep up, having a job will give them valuable skills for success later in life. If teens do not work in high school, they will not acquire real-world skills for adulthood.
Jada’s conclusion assumes that teens who do not work during high school will not acquire real-world skills for adulthood. That presents only two possibilities—having a job or lacking those skills—when teens can develop real-world skills in other ways, such as volunteering or caring for family. This is a false dilemma, choice D.
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