Why does the writer include this statement in the passage? to dismiss the need to prevent heatstroke to add an interesting scientific fact to the story o to show the correlation between temperature and heat indexes D to emphasize the seriousness of athletes becoming overheated​

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.