Here is a letter from the F.S.D. to the Fullerton Informer site administrator:
The F.S.D. claims that the classroom microwave EMF emissions are legal. They also refuse to grant us access to film and record our own measurements. We at The Fullerton Informer believe that the microwave EMF emissions present in the classrooms, that the district claims are well below the FCC limits, are not safe. We, by the way, are not alone with respect to our position:
http://www.bioinitiative.org/conclusions/expert testimony
http://www.wifiinschools.com/lausd-testimony.html
The current FCC standards that the FSD is hiding behind are based on thermal (heating) effects of these microwave EMF emissions. The widely held view in the scientific community is with the dangers of the NON-THERMAL interactions and effects on children at the cellular and molecular level that have been clearly demonstrated in the medical literature to be real. Therefore, we believe that the FCC guidelines are woefully inadequate, antiquated and allow students to be subjected to, what we believe to be, dangerous levels of microwave EMF radiation in the classrooms as a result of the use of these WiFi enabled devices and the networks’ industrial strength routers that can potentially result in long term health effects. We believe that chronic exposure to these emissions is potentially very dangerous. Our position is to hard wire the technology in the classrooms as well as in your homes. By forcing the use of WiFi enabled tablets in the classroom, the Fullerton School District is then forcing the students and their families to operate and maintain a wireless environment in their homes so the students can do their homework on the wireless devices. Now even many of the after school day care facilities that serve the Fullerton students are considering installing wireless networks so that the students can do their homework on their tablets while in their custody before and after school. I believe that the willful ignorance of this information by the F.S.D, its Board of Trustees and its employees is not in the best interests of the students or even the community at large. The ramifications of their decisions have far reaching unintended consequences that we can no longer ignore.
This bears repeating, the wireless setting that the F.S.D. is forcing the existence of in the home, in the classrooms, and indirectly in day care facilities, is in our opinion, not safe for children, and especially for pregnant women or anyone else for that matter. The whole basis for this technology being safe is based on current FCC standards that completely IGNORE an entire realm of non-thermal physiological effects and the associated non-thermal mechanisms by which they take place. That is what we call uncharted territory folks. Most Fullerton students are there now and even more will be next year.
So all of the aforementioned begs the question.
We at the Fullerton Informer have been trying to get the Board’s and the administration’s attention on these potential dangers facing our children for months.
Why does it appear that the F.S.D just doesn’t get it?
#1 by Anonymous on June 5, 2013 - 12:33 pm
“Why does it appear that the F.S.D just doesn’t get it?” –
Because they don’t believe in the Easter Bunny either. You guys are a bunch of nut jobs. If this stuff wasn’t safe, the government wouldn’t allow it in the schools, homes and offices all over the country.
#2 by one eye closed on June 5, 2013 - 1:04 pm
All of the scientists and PHD holding researchers as well as all of us bloggers sounding the alarm appear to be getting in the way of all of the district employees’summer vacation plans. The science is real and at your fingertips on this and many other sites. Did it occur to you that there are those who are in positions of influence that make decisions that affect us all, who are either misinformed, ignorant, evil or all of the above? Do you blindly trust everything that the government tells you to believe? Do you have children in Fullerton schools?
#3 by another mom on June 5, 2013 - 1:29 pm
“If this stuff wasn’t safe, the government wouldn’t allow it in the schools, homes and offices all over the country.”
Ha, ha, yeah, just like the asbestos, cigarettes, Love Canal, thalidomide, etc. the government allowed. If you are counting on the government to keep you safe, good luck with that.
#4 by Joe Imbriano on June 5, 2013 - 2:06 pm
I have to admit that is the first reaction most people have when confronted with information that challenges accepted societal norms. It is especially common with respect to things that are new and “sexy” like this incursion of wireless technology into our children’s lives.
Folks, there is indeed a dark side to this immersion of our culture into this wireless abyss. I believe that dangers are real and the FCC guidelines don’t take into account the non-thermal effects of these emissions. We are not nut jobs, but rather nuts about keeping the children safe from the tentacles of a trillion dollar industry that has stepped on the gas with the FCC’s blessing. With the help of your local school administrators, it is headed right into their laps and in direct proximity to their developing brains, bodies and especially their sensitive developing reproductive areas.
I don’t believe in the Easter Bunny. There is no shortage of medical experts that have come forward and gone on record stating that the microwave EMF emissions’ exposure is a threat to the health of our children and there are thousands of studies in the literature that back them up.
I urge you to grow up, be objective and open your eyes instead of taking a cheap shot at the work of those who labor tirelessly in order to get the word out on this public health disaster in the making.