December 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton would close half the country's schools

Washington Times - At a campaign rally in Keota, Iowa, Mrs. Clinton said that she would close, by definition, half the nation’s schools — all those that are not above average.

“This school district and these schools throughout Iowa are doing a better than average job,” Mrs. Clinton told the crowd. “Now, I wouldn’t keep any school open that wasn’t doing a better than average job. If a school’s not doing a good job, then you know it may not be good for the kids.”

Left unclear is what would happen a year after about half the nation’s schools had been closed. Of the half that would remain, about half of them would, by mathematical definition, become “below average.”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Clearly no politician knows simple math, otherwise we would not get all the crappy policy that we see.

Strelnikov said...

Her megalomania knows no bounds.....

Anonymous said...

Another example of why rational people just turn politicians off. As an earlier contributor points out, Madame's plan is logically circular (i.e. removal of the schools with performance below the mean merely creates a new mean, and, consequently a new set of schools below that new mean.)Her utterances sound like a cogitated plan, but they don't survive even the simplest analysis. This is typical of what we, the people, have learned to accept as valid discourse. Madame exemplifies the difference between intelligence and cunning.