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Nov. 22, 2005 – Further evidence that all is not well within the Department of Education's School Lunch Program was available, said Liston A Davis, Chairman of the Committee on Education, Culture and Youth, after he visited Julius Sprauve Elementary School on Monday, November 21, 2005.
Senator Davis said that traditionally at Thanksgiving, the Department of Education through its school lunch program supplies Julius Sprauve and other schools, with turkeys so that students can participate in a thanksgiving meal with the appropriate trimmings.
"Through a lack of proper planning, this year the School Lunch Program has failed to provide turkeys for Julius Sprauve and perhaps for other schools in the District," said the Chairman of the Education Committee.
"To fill the gap left by the failure of the Department of Education to perform its usual role, the Administration at Julius Sprauve Elementary has had to rely on its Community Fund Raising Gala monies which were not intended to bail out the Department of Education from its financial responsibilities," said Senator Davis, adding that as early as November 3, 2005, after extensive research into the matter, in a news release he had brought attention to the sad state of the School Lunch Program which was feeding our students nothing but rice and ground-beef on a daily basis.
Senator Davis said that his warning must have fallen on deaf ears because here we
are at Thanksgiving and through the ineptitude of the upper echelons of the Department of Education, had it not being for the goodwill of the Administration at Julius Sprauve Elementary School, these students would have been denied the traditional turkey luncheon.
"I wonder what is the next debacle we can expect from the Department of Education, especially with respect to the School Lunch Program?" asked Senator Liston A. Davis, Chairman of the Committee on Education, Culture and Youth.