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I wonder if she realizes that, by iteration, this proposal will ultimately result in all schools being closed.

• Cypher 11y ago
  It means there will be 1 big super school for every child and teacher to go too and everyone will be going to the best school in the country.
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  Only if no new schools are opened. And, anyway, she didn't say she'd iterate on that: the statement is perfectly considered with the average now being disastrously low, such that anything below the current average is considered unredeemable and should be terminated, without implying that close-below-average should be ongoing practice. (And, if average is, as typically, defined as below the arithmetic mean on some measure -- and that measure isn't normally distributed -- that does not imply, closing half of schools; the only 'average' for which the articles half implication generally holds true is the median.)
• lintiness 11y ago
  the comment's hilarious, but the sub title a close second: "half the schools". she's in iowa. when she gets to new york or chicago, she'll be deriding closures and promising raises to public school teachers.