‘write a paper explaining why the city council should appropriate new funds to expand homeless outreach programs for undocumented immigrants’.
If we had to write a similar paper it would have been “Should city council appropriate …”
Good example. My very conservative wife is a professor for two colleges. It is a constant battle for her to come up with essay topics that will not get her fired by her progressive/liberal bosses and her conservative views.
I had a tendency to do that very thing. I made a lot of trouble for myself that way. :-)