NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne 'banned' from taking school dinner photos

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A nine-year-old girl who became an internet hit after blogging about her school dinners claims she has been banned from taking photographs of her meals.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18454800#TWEET159887

http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/goodbye.html#comment-form

This is outrageous. This girl is highlighting the quality of food in school and is being prevented from continuing by the PR department of the local council. I'm going to complain, hopefully they'll get more bad publicity from this than the original blog :mad:
 
Crikey, some of those meals look like utter ****!

Who would one complain too? I'll join you.
 
Not surprised at all as this is beginning the norm. Same thing happened at my work, just not with meals.
Why fix the problems when you can hide them?
 
The thing is, when you look at her blog, many of the meals score pretty highly with only a few being as bad as on the BBC's picture.
 
pretty outrageous... could perhaps do with some moral courage on the part of the head teacher... like growing a set and telling the council he can't dictate what a kid can and can't take pictures of during their lunch break

instead the school seems to be automatically complying with some local council official who's trying to cover up the reality that some school dinners are not too great... why should a local council/education authority get to micro manage the individual behaviour of a single child

seems its all just the result of a newspaper headline... she's been fairly objective in blogging the dinners - yet having some transparency/openness seems to have scared the local officials.
 
Wow. Page Views are soaring.

Her blog was nowhere near as harsh as some things seem to make it come across. She's given some things great ratings, and was even raising quite a bit of money for charity...

kd
 
Hang on a minute - aren't cameras/phones banned in primary schools? They certainly are in my sons school and my wifes school - how did she even have a camera?

I agree with other posters - continue blogging sans pictures - she could even have a go at drawing them :D
 
I looked at her blog, and most meals seem better than the things I've been given on long-haul flights.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Hang on a minute - aren't cameras/phones banned in primary schools? They certainly are in my sons school and my wifes school - how did she even have a camera?

I agree with other posters - continue blogging sans pictures - she could even have a go at drawing them :D
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If you'd read the blog, or possibly even the news article, you'd realise that she asked permission from the school. The school gave her permission and support, and the ban came from the Council, not the school. The MP for the region has tweeted that he intend to try and get the ruling by the local council reversed as well.

kd
 
King Damager said:
If you'd read the blog, or possibly even the news article, you'd realise that she asked permission from the school. The school gave her permission and support, and the ban came from the Council, not the school. The MP for the region has tweeted that he intend to try and get the ruling by the local council reversed as well.

kd
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Yeah, the school seem to be supportive which is why I complained only to the council and not the school too. That said, perhaps a letter of support to the school would be useful.
 
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