C. A teacher claims that student performance has gone down based on school - wide test results
To introduce the idea or purpose of your essay and explain why and what you're writing about.
B.
Patronizing
The words
within the quotation marks you provided can best be described as patronizing
because of how Mr. Auld seems to know what is best for someone other than
himself the way a parent would; however, in this instance it takes the tone of disrespect
as it is speaking of one who is grown as one would of a child who wouldn’t know
what is best for himself or herself.