Nine-year-old
Martha Payne’s blog got banned in Britain, and all she did was take pictures of
the school lunch every day and make comments.
For instance, one day she commented, “I’m a growing kid and I need to
concentrate all afternoon and I can’t do it on one croquette.”
She
also asked questions like: Where does
the chicken come from? Why do we throw
the plastic spoons away, instead of recycling them? Obviously, this little girl was a menace to
society.
What
was her reward? On June 14 she posted
that she was hauled out of her math class, taken to the head teacher, and told
she couldn’t take pictures of the school food anymore. Take THAT, free speech. As well as education, nutrition, individual
spirit, etc.
Don’t
get her wrong. Martha Payne is not a
smart aleck. In fact, she gave a 10 out
of 10 for the last school lunch she reviewed before her blog got
kaiboshed.
But
her blog prevailed! The internet uproar
was enormous. Now, she’s allowed to take
pictures of the school food again. Visit her blog and see that it’s alive and well.
If
you want to see a cute picture of her that I can’t post due to copyright, look at this site.
So
the pen is mightier than the sword. I
know, she used a keyboard, but this looked picturesque.
What a cool story (and a really neat blog of hers). It's great to see kids motivated to do stuff like this, and I love the attention she got when the school tried to shut her down :) Thanks for sharing!
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