Today’s Trib opinion piece notes that the District has managed to take statistics and bend them so as to justify what they wanted to do anyway.
The book read by the writer in her college days has a title that was borrowed from Mark Twain’s famous quote:
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Twain had another quote which I referred to ad nauseum when I was a school board member. Its still apropos:
“First God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he invented school boards.”
