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Indeed. It almost makes me question whether this was a real 9 year old, or a teacher that wrote lower than their level (but not low enough) and that was outraged by the activities ... and then signed it their child's name.


Possibly the family talked about the lunches and the Dad asked her to take photos and tell a story about it....

It's clear he's helping with the tech aspect (i.e. number of hits), so he could be helping with editing/spelling/content too.

I don't see a problem with that.


According to the radio interview[1] it started out as a writing exercise.

[1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17908017/VEG%20You%20and%20Yours.mp3


I get the impression from reading it that it's her content but her dad is doing the editorial for her which, given it's a 9yo with a blog, I'd call pretty sensible parenting.


That's a reasonable and less conspiracy-esque theory. It seems more plausible than my idea -- though it wouldn't surprise me if a teacher actually did do that.




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