Lower Merion School District
Lower Merion School District, or LMSD, is a public school district located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The school district includes residents of both Lower Merion Township and the Borough of Narberth. Established in 1836, LMSD is one of the oldest districts in Pennsylvania. It is the wealthiest school district in the state, and one of the wealthiest school districts in the country.[1]
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[edit] Schools administered
Ten schools comprise the district:
- Lower Merion High School[2]
- Harriton High School[3]
- Bala Cynwyd Middle School[4]
- Welsh Valley Middle School[5]
- Belmont Hills Elementary School[6]
- Cynwyd Elementary School[7]
- Gladwyne Elementary School[8]
- Merion Elementary School, the site of the April 4, 1991, plane crash that killed Republican U.S. Senator John Heinz. The plane crash also took the lives of six others, including two first grade students playing at recess.[9]
- Penn Wynne Elementary School, the elementary school that Alex Scott attended.[10]
- Penn Valley Elementary School[11]
[edit] Class action
In February 2010, a class action lawsuit was filed against the school district, alleging that Harriton High School had been secretly using remotely activated webcams built into laptops issued to their students to spy on the students in their homes, thereby infringing on their privacy rights.[12] The suit was filed by the parents of a student who had been warned by an assistant principal that he had been engaging in "improper behavior" in his bedroom. The schools admitted to secretly snapping over 66,000 webshots and screenshots, including webcam shots of students in their bedrooms.[13][14]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Philadelphia Magazine". Phillymag.com. http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the_top_50_school_districts_2008/. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
- ^ "LMHS | Lower Merion HS". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/lmhs/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "HHS | Harriton HS". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/hhs/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "BCMS | Bala Cynwyd MS". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/bcms/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "WVMS | Welsh Valley MS". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/wvms/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "BHES | Belmont Hills ES". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/bhes/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "CES | Cynwyd ES". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/ces/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "GES | Gladwyne ES". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/ges/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "MES | Merion ES". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/mes/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "PWES | Penn Wynne ES". LMSD. http://lmsd.org/sections/schools/pwes/. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "PVES | Penn Valley ES". LMSD. http://www.lmsd.org/sections/schools/pves. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home". Boing Boing. February 17, 2010. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Doug Stanglin (February 18, 2010). "School district accused of spying on kids via laptop webcams". USA Today. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/school-district-accused-of-issuing-webcam-laptops-to-spy-on-students/1. Retrieved February 19, 2010.
- ^ "Initial LANrev System Findings", LMSD Redacted Forensic Analysis, L-3 Services – prepared for Ballard Spahr (LMSD's counsel), May 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
[edit] External links
- LMSD Website
- Community Site with Information on LMSD Budget Issues
- LMSD Science and Technology Education Department
- LMSD Technology Education Recent News Site
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