Statement: The roll of a municipal school has fallen by a third in three years. Every one of the families that left gave the same reason when asked: the school teaches only to the eighth standard, and they had moved their children to schools that carry on to the tenth. Which of the following courses of action follows?

The families have stated their reason and it is a single one: the school stops too early. An action that follows must answer that reason, either by extending the school or by removing the anxiety about what comes after the eighth. A lower fee answers a complaint about cost that nobody made; transferring the teachers punishes them for a defect that is not theirs; and advertising invites families to a school that will still stop at the eighth.