Rep. Cynthia Davis has come under fire the past couple of weeks (especially this week after being named Worst Person in the World by Keith Olberman), for her comments concerning a government program to feed school-age children during the summer, but this is not the first time she has expressed these kind of thoughts.
In Mrs. Davis' capital report the week of March 19, which I ran in The Turner Report, she shrugged off complaints that children would not receive nutritious meals if schools went to a four-day week to save money:
Most of the opposition in the debate on this bill sounded like we were discussing a state-run orphanage. Some legislators were concerned that the school children would not get anything to eat if they were not at school. This kind of reasoning bothers me because it presumes that our public schools are little more than glorified day care centers. The purpose of public education must always be education. The parents are the ones who are supposed to be feeding the children. Additionally, I have never heard of a child starving to death because he didn’t attend public school over the three-month recess.
Perhaps Mrs. Davis has not heard of anyone starving because of programs like the one she ripped in the column which has surrounded her in a continuing negative publicity whirlwind.
Other Turner Report posts featuring Cynthia Davis can be found at this link.
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