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Why does she have a cell phone in school in the first place? Second of all, she’s NINE. Why does a nine year old need a cell phone of that quality?  It’s ridiculous…. 

@newportbreeze@xanga - I second that. Plus, what nine year old Blogs?!

This is proof that children aren’t what you take them for. They are a lot smarter and a lot more aware of what’s going on around them than adults take them to be.

And the issue is that she has a cellphone? Without that cellphone and blog she would have never incited change. She’s done a helluva a lot more with her cellphone than those 13 year olds sexting one another or those adults using it just for drama.

what an awesome child :O

*berates self for not being as awesome*

@TheDeadWhale@xanga -  This

@TheDeadWhale@xanga - This.

she is an incredibly sophisticated 9 year old

her writing is great for someone her age…probably even better than some older than sheher idea to blog is genius, but i do agree with the above comment. 9 year old with cellphone? Though, I guess if she’s capable enough to use it responsibly and for a good cause and write the way she does, I’d trust her with a cell phone if she were my child.

I went through and read the blog, because I thought it was an adorable concept, and from what I understand her Dad is letting her take his camera to school? I’m not sure where the phone part came from but I guess it is possible I missed it.  

Either way I’m glad she will get to start up again!

She takes her dad’s digital camera to school; she doesn’t even mention owning a phone at all. What does that say about you people and your cell addictions, to assume that the only devices that take photos these days are phones? And why should you judge a girl for blogging at 9 years old, when the internet was a fledgling invention when our generation was that age? Her dad is also extremely involved in her blog as both support and supervision: there’s not an ounce of irresponsible parenting anywhere in this story.

Moving on from the trifling of previous posters, I read the entire blog this evening, and I absolutely love this girl. She is evidently a very bright little person, based on her thoughtful questions and clear writing — and she is incredibly adorable, to boot. I am so happy that there are awesome kids like her in the world who will doubtless turn into awesome grown-ups, her parents should be very proud.

I read an article about this girl in the past. From what I remember her dad lets her take his digital camera to school and he supervises while she writes the blog. He isn’t being an irresponsible parent so chill.

@aheartofglitter@xanga - @newportbreeze@xanga - she does it because she hated her school meals, and she wanted to document how bad the (compulsory) school meals in England are. She got permission from her teachers to use her dad’s digital camera (NOT a phone) in school, and her dad helps her run the blog and to upload the photographs. I don’t think her running a blog (with help and permission from her dad) is the issue here.

@Victoriamisu@xanga - she doesn’t have a phone, it’s her dad’s digital camera

I think her blog is nice. I never would have thought of something like that when I was 9. I enjoyed school meals and I wasn’t concerned with how healthy they were. She should be able to say whatever she wants.

I wish I knew how to get a lot of views on my other blog! Her counter kept moving while I was reading!

Even if she did have a phone, this is a different society now than it was when a lot of you were younger- i’m only 19 but i’d want my child, however young, to have a basic phone so they’re available to contact me in an emergency.

This girl is awesome. From one of her posts: ‘I’d really like to know where the chicken comes from so I am going to
write to the lady in charge to ask. I know it comes from a hen but I’d
like to know where the hen lived.’ How great is it that she’s interested in knowing where her food comes from? 

i admire the kid. 

I think the school is totally in the wrong by trying to ban her. I’m glad that didn’t work out! The girl is very talented and is making a change in the world that’s Awesome. I’m glad she is continuing to make a change.

if that the meal they give kids to have for lunch at school …. OMG, it terrible like what …. where the veg n gravy and meat and propper dinner x

What an impressive girl!

@britney1anbe@xanga - it’s because the government subsidises UK school meals, but the amount of money they give to schools is shockingly small. And when schools have to feed 300+ kids five times a week on a small budget, the quality is bound to be awful. It was the same when I was in primary school and that was fifteen years ago!

@newportbreeze@xanga - That’s how I feel.

This is also a loaded question.

To answer it though, I would have to know the school’s cell phone policy, the law on food safety and sanitation where she lives, and well as whether or not these laws were violated. Plus, are the cafeteria workers jobs in danger because they did something illegal or is it from pressure because of the attention. Schools have less than $1 to feed each kid, and they do what the can.

@soulfuric - I assumed it was a cell phone because it says “cameraphone” in the title.

While yes it’s true she’s nine and has a camera phone and it’s incredulous to some of you, she’s also doing something to make a change for a good cause. There’s some older kids and adults who use a phone for some crazy ass reasons. But she’s doing it for a good purpose so please don’t butcher her for that. I admire this little girl. 

Thanks for this girl, I will always have to reassure that my little sister gets mostly cold lunch from home. 

lol even without a  camera device, this girl will still write about her food by drawing! 

There reason for banning her from taking photos is dumb. I was expecting to read that the school doesn’t allow use of phones in anyway and they aren’t making an exception for her, which would be valid. So…I’m torn. 

Cafeteria food does suck most of the time, but as the daughter of a lunch lady, exposing this doesn’t threaten jobs, it just forces the school and govt dept in charge of this stuff to change the menu. My mom complains, but not because it threatens her job. I think she just hates change haha.

@newportbreeze@xanga@aheartofglitter@xanga - - who said she used a cellphone to take these photos?

blogging is no more different to a diary.

i don’t see why it seems so preposterous that a 9 year old is writing.

@aheartofglitter@xanga - oh yeah i completely forgot about the fact that she is 9 haha, but i agree. i was just looking at that picture and wondering if that is real food? it looks so fake. what a small serving too!