NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne banned from taking school dinner photos
Martha’s NeverSeconds blog started as a writing project with her dadA nine-year-old girl who became an internet hit after blogging about her school dinners has been banned from taking photographs of her meals.
Martha Payne, from Argyll, began publishing photographs of her Lochgilphead Primary School lunches on 30 April.
Her NeverSeconds blog got more than two million hits in just a few weeks.
Argyll and Bute Council said press coverage of the blog had led catering staff to fear for their jobs.
Martha gave each meal a ‘food-o-meter’ and health rating, and counted the number of mouthfuls it took her to eat it.
But in a post published on Thursday evening, Martha said her headteacher told her not to take any more photographs for the blog.
Under the headline “Goodbye”, the post stated: “This morning in maths I got taken out of class by my head teacher and taken to her office. I was told that I could not take any more photos of my school dinners because of a headline in a newspaper today.
“I only write my blog not newspapers and I am sad I am no longer allowed to take photos. I will miss sharing and rating my school dinners and I’ll miss seeing the dinners you send me too.”
The council’s decision to impose the ban came after the Daily Record newspaper published a photograph of Martha alongside chef Nick Nairn under the headline “Time to fire the dinner ladies..”
SHOCKING decision!
What a thing to do!!!
What message are we giving our kids ???
Freedom of speech DOESN’T EXIST?
You can have an opinion as long as it’s ours?
Disgusting.
I bet they wouldn’t be taking it down if it gave positives for each meal?
lol…
Some people need to realise that 1984-by George Orwell is a sci-fi book…not a manual of guidance.
This is typical of the woolly liberals that infest the whole system now. A nine year old girl criticising her school dinners is just too upsetting for the poor staff preparing them. Pointing out peoples shortcomings is now routinely called bullying. Constructive criticism; managing staff; it is all becoming impossible in this lunatic world.
The real joke is that these woolly liberals advocate freedom of expression etc. but the reality is that in their world no one can say anything for fear that it will be upset someone else.
These bastards have taken over the asylum and it needs to be taken back.
I am happy to say that the council leader has seen sense and overturned the ban. Presumably he did not want to be seen bullying a little girl. Far from banning this, she and others like her should be encouraged .
@ Brontosaurus
Having just commented elsewhere on neo-literate police, one can reasonably conclude recruitment from this pool was/is intentional.
Didn’t take you too long to revert to your normal arsehole stance eh Melv?
Tell us another fairy story about your interrupted crime fighting…
To a certain extent the cretin on the newspaper who made the headline “Time to fire the dinner ladies” deserves a lot of the blame. The aim of the blog was not to lose people their jobs. It took a so-called ‘professional’ reporter to make that connection. The dinner ladies srved what was provided. If anyone was to lose their job, it should have been the person in charge of the budget/menus for school dinners. I can recall my school dinners (in the late 50′s/early 60′s) being rubbish until a qualified nutritionist was employed to look at this subject. The improvement was so great that the school couldn’t cope with the number of applicants for school dinners. I doubt that it was the council seeing sense but rather the fact that the leader of the council realised their re-election was in great jeopardy. Meanwhile, the stupid reporter carries on doing what he/she does best – ruining a great human interest story.
Yup… I love that the media are always whining about the police et al that they have ‘too much power’…
lol
These media men have more power that MI5/,6 Police combined…