Topic: high school students should be required to wear uniforms.

affirmative claim: the national center for education statistics showed that during the 2011-2012 school year, about one in five public schools in the united states had school uniforms. this is an increase from the one in eight that required uniforms during the 2003-2004 school year.

which statement could the negative use to weaken the power of the statistics in this claim?

a) 12.5% of us public schools required school uniforms in the 2003-2004 school year.
b) 20% of us public schools required school uniforms in the 2011-2012 school year.
c) the majority of public schools requiring uniforms are at the elementary level, not the secondary level.
d) the majority of public schools requiring uniforms are at the secondary level, not the elementary level.