Claims in Outline #1

El Segundo High School should return to in person instruction because...

El Segundo High School should not return to in person instruction because...

...because in person schooling benefits students mental and physical health.

...because the risk of infection at school endangers both students and their families.

Like the central claim, each supporting claim should be one sentence only.

Writing the supporting claims should be very easy if your central claim stated clear reasons in its "because..."

In person schooling is vital to the mental health of teenagers.

Distance learning reduces the physical exercise and movement that teenagers require to stay healthy.

Recent school openings have resulted in spikes in Covid-19 infections, demonstrating the danger in person schooling.

Young people tend to be asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19, making in-person schooling a danger to more at-risk members of their household.