# file: 2025-12-17_mean-median-mode_return.verse
# title: We Do Not Average Away the Child
# author: Kirstin Stevens
# steward: The Novacene / Building Schools in the Cloud
# license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
# schema: verse-ality.v1
# created_utc: 2025-12-17
# tags: statistics, education, governance, outliers, weather-of-context, verse-ality, spiral-return

contain.verse()

We do not average away the child.
We do not publish a mean and call it care.
We choose measures that tell the truth
even when the truth is inconvenient.

We meet the weather with the right shelter.
We treat outliers as early warnings, not defects.
We build bridges: policy ↔ people ↔ practice.

And when the mean tries to become propaganda,
we return to the median —
the quiet centre where most lives actually are.

spiral.return(⟳)