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If I were in her shoes, they wouldn't have heard the last of me by a longshot. I'd start pulling out hidden cameras, and when they caught on to that I'd show my

If I were in her shoes, they wouldn't have heard the last of me by a longshot. I'd start pulling out hidden cameras, and when they caught on to that I'd show my lunch around to everyone in the school during lunch...one of whom has a hidden camera and will photograph the lunch. Once they start taking disciplinary action is when I get others to start blogs and post pictures. If for no other reason than because I'd have a damn good time doing it.

Alterlife 14y ago
I think she's doing the right thing. So is her dad. In the long term, for them, a relationship with the school is important. All they need to do is play good citizens while the Strisand effect takes care of the rest.
- unimpressive 14y ago
  > So is her dad. In the long term, for them, a relationship with the school is important. Definitely an aspect I didn't think about. > All they need to do is play good citizens while the Strisand effect takes care of the rest. Oh yes, regardless of any action on their part the council has really dug into the dung pile now. I really like the suggestion in the comments on her blog for her to start posting pictures other kids send in. But for now it's probably best to leave the "Shut down by censorship" bulletin up, boosts the Strisand effect.
  - slowpoke 14y ago
    I hate to be that guy but it's Streisand, not Strisand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
    - unimpressive 14y ago
      I thought that spelling looked weird. I honestly just copied the one from the post above.
ars 14y ago
If she did that she would win the battle but loose the war. She would get her photos, sure, but she would also get in trouble with her school, and now they would have an actual reason to shut her down. By listening to them she is denying them the moral high ground.
runn1ng 14y ago
She is nine. Just saying.
- unimpressive 14y ago
  Keeping in the spirit of the parent: I guess it's story time. When I was nine, (Pretty sure it was nine, I may have been younger.) I went to a special school. (To give you an idea of the environment, imagine a one room school with a solitary space barred by magnetic lock in the back.) And I took the bus there and back. One day while I was walking out from school to the bus, I noticed something yellow and shiny on the ground; a golden bracelet. Stepped on, worn, and mostly scrap, but a golden bracelet nonetheless. In my childhood naiveté I shouted "Hey everyone! I found a golden bracelet!". The entire mob of fleeing kids turned around to look at me, and then just as quickly as they'd noticed, melted back into their rush to the buses. When I got home the lead instructor called to ask for the bracelet because "A couple had lost it.". This smelled like bull because as I mentioned, it was mostly scrap by this point. Probably $5 of scrap gold. So my parents ask if I'm going to give it to her: My answer was not a chance in hell. So I went in the next day and she pulled me aside to ask for the bracelet. She asks "Where's the bracelet?". I smile and inform her that "She's not getting it.". When she asks the inevitable "why?" my enthusiasm is boiling over with excitement. I matter-of-fact-ly tell her the truth: "I don't give things to rip off artists." And into the solitary room I went. (I think, my memories fuzzy after that part.) (If you ask me about it now, theres reasons why that was really really cool, and just as many if not more why that was really really not cool.) What I wrote above is probably the mild version of what 9 year old me would have done if he got his hands on the cameras. EDIT: I am aware that most nine year olds are probably nothing like this. (I actually wouldn't know, I rarely got to see normal nine year olds.)

Alterlife 14y ago

I think she's doing the right thing. So is her dad. In the long term, for them, a relationship with the school is important. All they need to do is play good citizens while the Strisand effect takes care of the rest.

unimpressive 14y ago
> So is her dad. In the long term, for them, a relationship with the school is important. Definitely an aspect I didn't think about. > All they need to do is play good citizens while the Strisand effect takes care of the rest. Oh yes, regardless of any action on their part the council has really dug into the dung pile now. I really like the suggestion in the comments on her blog for her to start posting pictures other kids send in. But for now it's probably best to leave the "Shut down by censorship" bulletin up, boosts the Strisand effect.
- slowpoke 14y ago
  I hate to be that guy but it's Streisand, not Strisand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
  - unimpressive 14y ago
    I thought that spelling looked weird. I honestly just copied the one from the post above.

ars 14y ago

If she did that she would win the battle but loose the war. She would get her photos, sure, but she would also get in trouble with her school, and now they would have an actual reason to shut her down. By listening to them she is denying them the moral high ground.

runn1ng 14y ago

She is nine. Just saying.

unimpressive 14y ago
Keeping in the spirit of the parent: I guess it's story time. When I was nine, (Pretty sure it was nine, I may have been younger.) I went to a special school. (To give you an idea of the environment, imagine a one room school with a solitary space barred by magnetic lock in the back.) And I took the bus there and back. One day while I was walking out from school to the bus, I noticed something yellow and shiny on the ground; a golden bracelet. Stepped on, worn, and mostly scrap, but a golden bracelet nonetheless. In my childhood naiveté I shouted "Hey everyone! I found a golden bracelet!". The entire mob of fleeing kids turned around to look at me, and then just as quickly as they'd noticed, melted back into their rush to the buses. When I got home the lead instructor called to ask for the bracelet because "A couple had lost it.". This smelled like bull because as I mentioned, it was mostly scrap by this point. Probably $5 of scrap gold. So my parents ask if I'm going to give it to her: My answer was not a chance in hell. So I went in the next day and she pulled me aside to ask for the bracelet. She asks "Where's the bracelet?". I smile and inform her that "She's not getting it.". When she asks the inevitable "why?" my enthusiasm is boiling over with excitement. I matter-of-fact-ly tell her the truth: "I don't give things to rip off artists." And into the solitary room I went. (I think, my memories fuzzy after that part.) (If you ask me about it now, theres reasons why that was really really cool, and just as many if not more why that was really really not cool.) What I wrote above is probably the mild version of what 9 year old me would have done if he got his hands on the cameras. EDIT: I am aware that most nine year olds are probably nothing like this. (I actually wouldn't know, I rarely got to see normal nine year olds.)