Parent: “Students these days do not study nearly as hard as they did when I was young. When I was 15, I spent five hours a day just completing my homework. Now all the kids can finish it in three hours or less. This generation is lazier than my generation.”
Student: “It’s true that we spend less time on homework. But we study more subjects in school and are actually required to learn more. We’re not lazy, but we spend less time on homework because we have more technology, like graphing calculators and the Internet to make our work faster.”
In responding to the parent, the student does which of the following?
