mark wahlberg | chestercountyramblings

Never underestimate the power of community. A friend sent me an article this morning. Evil spying laptops that happened in Lower Merion Township is a docuseries.

To me? Oh how cool- the person (can’t remember their name) scouting for this initially contacted me because I blogged about it back then under Save Ardmore Coalition about evil spying laptops, I connected him to a friend from LMVUE who connected them to other people a while back and the end result? This. Never knew it would be Mark Waglburg thing. Yes he’s behind the series.

My friends and I always had the opinion that the kids in the case weren’t the only ones who had it happen to them, we always thought there were many more kids but these were the ones whose parents came forward. After all there were thousands of photos.

However, one kid’s parents’ issues became part of what was the story of this case. What the kid went through should never be diminished because of the actions of the adults in his life at the time.

I can tell you that this docuseries coming out is going to be very hard on the people who had to live it, but I am hoping that because Mark Wahlberg is behind it that it will be a story told the right way.

I was not part of the interviewing process for this docuseries because I told the person who initially contacted me that it wasn’t my story to tell because at the time I didn’t have kids in the school district, I was just writing about it as an issue locally. I was a community activist and a blogger there before I moved out here And became the blogger that everybody likes to complain about. But when it came to that, I didn’t think it was appropriate for me to speak about it. The people to speak about it are most appropriately the people that truly lived it not just people like me who observed it happening in the community.

But the thing is when people tell their story sometimes something good will happen and I’m hoping something good will happen here because if people see this, maybe it will be stopped in all the other places it’s still happening.

For those of us who lived through this back then either as a parent of a directly affected child or just as a community member thinking how could a school district be violating rights like this, it changed out we looked at computers. I don’t think any of us will ever have a camera on a laptop or a desktop that doesn’t have a cover over it, even if it is just a post it note.

And I will also note that I felt back then there was a very racial component to this whole thing as well, and I hope that the series covers that. Again, when I was initially contacted about this, I sent them to LMVUE people not the Robbins family whom I did not ever know.

Deadline: ‘Spy High’ Docuseries From EP Mark Wahlberg Lands At Prime Video

By Katie Campione

Philadelphia Inquirer: Lower Merion’s notorious ‘WebcamGate’ scandal to become an Amazon docuseries Mark Wahlberg is executive producing ‘Spy High,’ a four-part series premiering this Spring. by Rosa Cartagena Published Jan. 27, 2025, 3:05 p.m.

Please note that although the Inquirer characterizes this as a “dark period” in Lower Merion School District history, it’s hardly been the only dark period in this screwy school district.

LMVUE (Lower Merion Voices United for Equity in Education) which was also integral to this was a group of residents and parents who deserve a lot of credit here. They went against the school district initially for redistricting, and they did a lot of other things to help parents and students in the district, including having a big voice here with evil spying laptops.

I know when it comes to this, that a lot of people are upset that this one family seems central to perhaps even this docuseries – but again even if the parents were slightly less than did, the kids deserve laptops spying on them? No, they did not. So whatever the motivation was that caused these parents to become a lead in this and a face in this, perhaps if they hadn’t been so vocal, would this have gotten so far? It’s a double edge sword isn’t it? And I do think that if they hadn’t been so out in front on this, maybe it wouldn’t have gotten so much attention.

However, I wonder if it will go into one of the other characters who were there when this happened? And one person is the guy who parents wanted out in Wallingford Swarthmore school district correct?

But to people out there who think they can’t make a difference in their community, it can happen.

And we never referred to it as WebCamgate, it was always evil spying laptops.

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