PHILADELPHIA — You can think what you want, said Holly Robbins, but it’s not about the money.

Robbins said that she didn’t want to sue the Lower Merion School District when she discovered in November that her 15-year-old son’s school-issued laptop was secretly snapping pictures inside their home.

She didn’t want to tarnish the reputation of the Main Line district where both she and her husband attended school. And she didn’t want parents thinking that they were a money-grubbing family trying to dig themselves out of debt with a class-action lawsuit.

“I tried to communicate with the school prior to filing the lawsuit,” Robbins said Sunday during an interview at her Penn Valley home, her hand clasped around her husband’s. “I didn’t want to file the lawsuit; I didn’t want to go through that.”

In the family’s first extensive newspaper interview, Robbins said that she just wanted to find out why Harriton High School officials were surreptitiously photographing her son, Blake, with the webcam on his Apple MacBook. And she wanted it to stop. But she says that she couldn’t get any answers.

“Nobody called me back,” she said. “Nobody responded to me.”

In February, the family filed the bombshell invasion-of-privacy lawsuit that triggered international headlines, an FBI investigation, new federal wiretapping legislation and even a “What’s Wrong With People?” segment on the “Dr. Phil” show.

Turns out, the software that Lower Merion was using to track missing laptops was even more invasive than the Robbinses — and many other families — had imagined. Since the suit was filed, the district has recovered about 56,000 images, and the Robbinses’ attorney said that there could be many more.

In Blake Robbins’ case, hundreds of pictures were captured by his laptop. Not just photos of him working in front of the computer, but of him sleeping, of him shirtless after getting out of the shower and of his father, Michael.

Some of Blake’s friends appear in the photos — which the Philadelphia Daily News has seen — because the software also captured screen shots. The images that Lower Merion has turned over to the family include still pictures of video chats and instant-message conversations involving Blake and his friends.

“It’s pretty shocking to think that they would do that to me and invade my privacy,” the soft-spoken sophomore said, as he lounged on the living-room couch. “Pretty scary.”