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 6, 2013 - 8:17 pm
The FCC standards have been subjected to vigorous testings and studies, investigations and research of the scientific community. They would not allow something that is not safe to enter the market in this country and especially into the hands of our children.
#2 by Veritas on June 7, 2013 - 7:09 am
Not true!
The standards are out of date and the FCC is not enforcing the laws that are on the books:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oICZOtMwPo
and
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/-1770139.htm
Understand the collusion between Tech Industry/NIH (National Institute of Health) in suppressing information contrary to Tech Industry interests. This is a C-Span video uploaded in 2009. Go to minute 4:00 where Dr. Davis starts explaining what happened when the researchers did not come up with data that was to the Tech Industries liking. It starts at 4:00 min:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npK5HSxukyA&feature=player_embedded
If you go digging, you can find information saying that EMF radiation from wireless is harmful, and there is a LOT of it. It is like falling into a bottomless pit of information.
#3 by Joe Imbriano on June 7, 2013 - 9:09 am
Thank you for your post. Minds are beginning to unlock on this issue. We have all summer to reach the parents. The administrators have all summer to figure out how to address what they foolishly believe to be a public relations issue that is actually really a public health issue.
#4 by there is an agenda on June 7, 2013 - 12:30 pm
http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr13/yr13rel62.asp
Mr. Imbriano, it looks like you are making them step on the gas.
#5 by Ray on June 7, 2013 - 2:10 pm
The FCC guildelines are really the crux of the problem, as they are so out of date and fail to provide any measure of protection.
The primary problem is that they only acknowledge one single biological effect: The heating of bodily tissue.
They completely ignore all other biological effects, despite literally thousands of peer reviewed studies which report a myriad of other effects including cancer, DNA damage, leakage of the blood brain barrier, infertility, etc.
The FCC guidelines were drawn up in 1986, and only factor in research conducted before then. All research conducted over the last 25+ years is not even considered.
Given that the FCC guidlines are so out of date, they also only consider the older type of radiation – namely continuous wave. They fail to consider the newer pulse-digital microwave radiation which is commonly used with such technology as WiFi. Pulse modulated radiation has been shown in numerous and highly reputable studies to cause biological damage at much lower levels.
For more information, visit http://www.wifiinschools.com
#6 by Joe Imbriano on June 7, 2013 - 2:46 pm
Ray, I just emailed your comments to the County Superintendent of Public Instruction who has been ignoring me as well as my Congressman. Ray, your clarity and distillation of the simple facts flies in the face of those public servants who, in my opinion, display complete blatant disregard for the general welfare of our children by completely ignoring the risks of classroom EMF exposure.
Ray, your website http://www.wifiinschools.com exposes these officials to more than enough ample evidence to logically persuade any rational person to employ a precautionary approach at the very least. More studies need to be done on animals before they are allowed to continue on our school children.
#7 by powerwatch on November 27, 2013 - 8:51 pm
Some of the latest-generation consoles (XBOX 360, Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3) are all wirelessly enabled. These all have thewireless controllers, and have integrated WiFi. Some modern handheld consoles (Nintendo DS, Sony PSP) also have WiFi built in.
There is currently no research either way on WiFi at the moment, however WiFi enabled devices give off similar strength EMFs as an average Mobile Phone Mast would give at under 100m. There is strong scientific evidence for mobile phone masts causing a variety of serious health issues, so we consider it prudent to take a precautionary approach and avoid prolonged use of WiFi enabled devices.