The most startling information to emerge from the well-publicized lawsuit filed by a Lower Merion family this week against the township school district is not that:
- School officials are alleged to have remotely activated a laptop webcam to spy on a student. (School officials are charter members of the Don't You Guys Have Anything Better to Do? Club.)
- Parents reacted to a perceived slight by filing a suit in federal court. (It's Lower Merion, the Official Home of Helicopter Parents.)
- County and federal law enforcement are investigating. (Grandstanding DAs and feds sniffing around a sensational story? Who'd have thought?)
- The story has gone global. (The only thing missing is sex, which would have sent the news interplanetary.)
No, the most surprising facet of the story is this: