Boy, 12, branded RACIST for repeating Roald Dahl joke available within school library: 'Afraid to speak!'

Boy, 12, branded RACIST for repeating Roald Dahl joke available within school library: 'Afraid to speak!'

A father has accused a Kent school of “killing academic and comedic freedom” after his 12-year-old child was given detention for telling a joke that appears in a Roald Dahl book available in the school’s own library

Free speech row erupts as boy, 12, branded RACIST for repeating Roald Dahl joke found in school library: ‘Afraid to speak!’

Madness on stilts. The joke: Andrey repeated the joke, originally written by Dahl, in front of a number of classmates, saying: “Why is it difficult to make telephone calls in China? Because there are so many Wings and so many Wongs, you might Wing the Wong number.” —————————- If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’. We shall s…