Getting Angrier At Spygate In Lower Merion – Here’s Why
I was feeling sorry for Lynn Matsko, Assistant Vice Principal At Harriton High, who called a news conference to express her distress at claims she was spying on a student through a web cam. Then, I was feeling badly for the Robbins family, whose home was allegedly spied-on. Then, I was feeling badly for the family again when they were demonized for all their past-due bills and other alleged problems, which has nothing to do with this case. Then, I felt sorry for all the kids at Harriton whose school was embarrassed by this whole mess. Then. I got a little chuckle when students were spotted with shirts emblazoned with the words, “Lower Merion Spied On Me.”
Then, I got angry , not at Ms. Matsko, or the Robbins or the people who tried to demonize them. I got angry because suddenly a crisis in common sense turned into a circus. Suddenly, school boards all across the country were investigating whether their loaner laptops could be used as spy-cams. That means that those districts were concerned that they too had the potential to spy on their students at home.
You see, most people are missing the point.
And this is it: The fact is that someone in the Lower Merion school district allowed a CONNECTION between the computer cams and the school. That CONNECTION, whether innocent or not, provided the potential for someone to look at someone’s private moments in their own homes! Did the school district understand that there was a POTENTIAL for harm by allowing that connection in the first place?
That is the real story, not the charges and counter-charges, but the awareness that someone in that school district wasn’t smart enough to see that a connection like that was a green light for possible abuse.
The person in that school district who may have knowingly approved that connection must be found, and at the very least, given a copy of the United States Constitution.

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