Only if no new schools are opened. And, anyway, she didn&#x27;t say she&#x27;d iterate on that: the statement is perfectly considered with the average <i>now</i> being disastrously low, such that anything below the <i>current</i> average is considered unredeemable and should be terminated, without implying that close-below-average should be ongoing practice.<p>(And, if average is, as typically, defined as below the arithmetic mean on some measure -- and that measure isn&#x27;t normally distributed -- that does not imply, closing <i>half</i> of schools; the only &#x27;average&#x27; for which the articles half implication generally holds true is the median.)