Question

read the claim and paragraph.
(1) homework has more negative effects on children and teenagers than positive effects. (2) hours of schoolwork after the school day is over intrude on students family lives, cause unnecessary stress, and take away from time participating in other enriching activities. (3) in addition, studies show that for children below high-school age, there is no relationship between homework and how a student performs on a test, and for high-school students, the relationship is nearly insignificant. (4) although homework might not have a major effect on test scores, some say that it teaches students other important life lessons. (5) however, no conclusive study has shown that homework improves students self-discipline, time management skills, or sense of independence. (6) therefore, schools should seriously reconsider revising homework guidelines, and teachers should only assign homework when it is truly
which sentence contains a rebuttal to the counterclaim in the paragraph?
○ sentence 2
○ sentence 4
○ sentence 5
○ sentence 6

Explanation:

A counterclaim here is the idea in sentence 4 that homework teaches important life lessons. A rebuttal directly challenges this counterclaim. Sentence 5 argues that no conclusive study proves homework improves skills like self-discipline, directly pushing back against the counterclaim in sentence 4.

Answer:

sentence 5