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WELL I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK NOW DOESN’T IT?
DOES THE EPA’S OWN SCIENTIST AGREE? http://thefullertoninformer.
I beleive that FSD’s very own Robert Pletka’s wireless classroom safety assurance: http://fsd.k12.ca.us/parent_resources/files/wireless.pdf is a house of cards ladies and gentlemen.
Lets not forget what is keeping them up at night, and maybe even you too as studies have shown that invisible microwave electromagnetic radiation from WiFi, laptops, tablets and cell phones inhibit the production of a hormone called melatonin. Melatonin is produced by the pineal gland in the brain and one of its primary functions is to regulate our sleep cycle. When inadequate amounts of melatonin are produced our sleep cycle is compromised.
Why is this important? If you don’t get into the deeper phases of the sleep cycle at night the body cannot repair itself. Cells aren’t rejuvenated. Sleep is necessary for growth as well this repair process to occur and we all need it, especially our children.
Here is a letter from a local parent sent to all governing authorities involved in this issue:
I am a Southern California mother of three and have a child in a school that is implementing one to one technology in the classroom. It was not until I stumbled upon information regarding wireless radiation that I became aware of the extremely critical health implications of such an environment in which 30+ wireless devices, operating 6 hours/day, 180 days/year for a child’s school career, are emitting an unprecedented amount of radiation on our children. In the process, I discovered a bottomless pit of studies and information that attest to the harms of wireless radiation.
The parents do not know that they are sending their children into an environment, surrounded by a Class 2b Carcinogen, classified as such by the World Health Organization. That is the same classification as lead, DDT, and engine exhaust. In what context would a classroom filled with engine exhaust ever be okay? The parents do not know that medical doctors, scientists, and researchers are identifying the following wireless radiation health effects: ADHD, autism, infertility, DNA damage to human sperm, childhood leukemia, neurological and cardiovascular problems, cognitive disfunction, pain, fatigue, mood disorders, dizziness, nausea, weakness, and skin problems. The question is: what is this wireless radiation doing to the human eggs in our daughters? Additionally, many of these health problems are not immediately evident and manifest themselves years after exposure, which makes everyone think that there are no harms from these emissions. The parents do not know that research into wireless radiation has been going on for decades and has yielded thousands of studies indicating harm: http://www.justproveit.net/content/prove-it-initiative-main
The parents do not know that something that they cannot see, hear, touch, smell or taste is a danger to their children. The parents do not know the numerous websites that have cropped up addressing just the subject of wireless classrooms:
WiFi In Schools, United States
WiFi In Schools, United Kingdom
WiFi In Schools, Australia
Citizens 4 Safe Technology
Center For Safer Wireless
Safe In School
Safe School
School Radiation Dot Com
The time is past due for the FCC to acknowledge the dangers of wireless radiation. Wireless technology has an implied safety that is dangerous and not justified. People, if they were aware of this information, would feel that there is immediate need for the FCC to step in and re-establish guidelines to ensure the public health.
The general population will begin finding out the following facts about the FCC’s role in allowing the unfettered proliferation of wireless radiation on our children and loved ones:
Facts
1) The FCC guidelines were last updated in 1996; that was 17 years ago. Why is that?
2) The FCC guidelines are based on thermal exposure and completely ignore non-thermal biological effects. Why is that? Non- thermal effects are the concern with wireless radiation.
3) No long-term studies have been funded on the non-thermal effects of wireless radiation. Why is that?
4) FCC current exposure guidelines allow for hundreds of trillions of times more exposure than our parents were exposed to as children. Why is that?
Parents are unknowingly sending their children back to school this Fall into classrooms filled with wireless radiation and there is no choice in the matter. These decisions are being made for the parents. School districts, when confronted with the harms of wireless classrooms, ignore or discount it because it conflicts with their one to one technology plans. They stand on the FCC’s guidelines and tech industry funded studies as reason for safety and are dismissive of parents raising concerns. Wired technology is known to be safe and a healthy choice for our children. Why take the risk with our children’s health with wireless?
Parents and the general public are trusting in the FCC to be taking care of this and, clearly, with 1996 guidelines, that is not the case. In the schools, knowledgeable parents are caught between administrators who falsely proclaim wireless radiation as “totally safe”, that there is no “absolute proof” of the harms of wireless radiation, resting on outdated FCC guidelines, and, what is now, decades of research that says it is not.
Please consider the application of the Precautionary Principle, as stated by Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., Director, Center for Family and Community Health, University of California, Berkeley, in a letter dated February 8, 2013, to the Los Angeles Unified School District writes: “The precautionary principle should be applied to this critical policy decision. This principle, developed at a U.N. environmental conference in 1992 states that in the absence of scientific consensus if an action has a suspected risk of causing harm, the burden of proof it is not harmful falls on those taking the action, and all reasonable measures to reduce the risk must be taken.” Our school children should not be in classrooms with wireless radiation until it can be proved that it is safe.
The urgency of this matter cannot be overstated. The health issues of wireless radiation are not going away. Many of these issues, such as dramatic growth rates of autism diagnosis and ADHD, are unaccounted for. The causes have not been identified. Our rate in Orange County CA is now 1 in 63. The FCC has a tremendous responsibility and a great opportunity to step forward and do the right thing. Please, incorporate the Precautionary Principle in the FCC guidelines, now, and call a halt to wireless radiation in our classrooms until it can be proven safe.
Finally, what does it say about us if we, as human beings, do not ensure the safety of our most vulnerable, our children?
Thank you,
Fullerton Mom
#1 by Fullerton Mom on September 3, 2013 - 7:20 pm
This was also sent to the FSD School Board:
Dr. Robert Pletka
Beverly Berryman
Hilda Sugarman
Chris Thompson
Janny Meyer
Lynn Thornley
#2 by Joe Imbriano on September 3, 2013 - 9:54 pm
Have you heard anything back from any of them?
#3 by Fullerton Mom on September 4, 2013 - 7:21 am
Not a word from any of them. To be fair, FSD was carbon copied (cc:) on the email.
Nevertheless, it’s pretty sad that our elected school board refuses to engage on this topic. Wireless technology must be more important to them than our children’s health.
#4 by Fullerton Mom on September 4, 2013 - 11:31 am
This is the reponse I received today from the CDC [Center for Disease Control]:
Subject: RE: CDC-INFO: Inquiry [ ref:_00DU0YCBU._500U08qOXt:ref ]
Date: September 4, 2013 11:22:56 AM PDT
Thank you for your submission to CDC-INFO regarding Wireless Radiation.
Your comments have been forwarded to the CDC appropriate division for their information. They will contact you directly if they have questions.
Thank you for contacting CDC-INFO. For more information, please call 1-800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636) or visit http://www.cdc.gov/info.
CDC-INFO is a service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). This service is provided by Verizon and its subcontractors under the Networx Universal contract to CDC and ATSDR.
#5 by Fullerton Mom on September 4, 2013 - 11:38 am
After sending it to all of the California State PTA officers, this is the response I have received. I have responded to this offer of assistance.
Subject: Re: CAPTA.ORG: Contact Student Involvement
Date: September 4, 2013 9:52:05 AM PDT
I think the problem is that you sent it to so many commission, they may all assume that another commission is taking care of this. If you want the Health Commission to look into this, you can start there. After I hear back from you. I will contact The appropriate commission and let them know that they were the commission selected to look into this. They have trained people to check into these matters. So let me hear back from you and I will try to assist.
#6 by Anonymous on September 6, 2013 - 9:01 am
Is the person who keeps posting here under R. Schulze working for the district? Who is this person? It is as if it is some sort of a game. My two daughters attend Raymond and they use the Ipad cart but not all day. I am not a scientist. I don’t understand much of what is being discussed here. Me. Imbriano continues to claim that children are being harmed. Please correct me if am wrong, unless you can demonstrate that something causes no harm, and it is absolutely necessary, then why are we possibly risking the health of the children?
I have read the handouts from the doctors and they say we shouldn’t be doing this so why are they going ahead with this?
#7 by this is how it is on September 15, 2013 - 7:53 am
Judging by R. Schulze’s wanting to irradiate our children for the sake of wireless technology, you would think that he does work for the district. Wireless technology seems to be a religion for him.
Yes, why take the risk unless you can prove absolutely that it causes no harm?
The effort to bring this information to the attention of FSD School Board and principals has been going on for about 6-7 months. They apparently do not want to hear it because they value their technology plans over the health of our children. FSD is making the choice for us about our children’s well being. Once you think about it, it is a very scary situation.
If we remain silent, our kids’ exposure to wireless radiation in the classroom will continue. Parents need to start attending the FSD school board meetings and speaking up. Here is the district website where you can find the meetings and the time when public comments begin: http://fsd.k12.ca.us/menus/Board/boardcalendar.html
#8 by Fullerton Mom on September 15, 2013 - 7:59 am
Email received from CA State PTA, Vice President for Health, Sept 9, 2013:
Thank you for contacting the California State PTA to express your concern about possible harm to children’s health from classroom wireless radiation. PTA has a long record of advocating for children for over 110 years and is always concerned about the health of children. Your local school site PTA unit and council in Fullerton would be the place to begin PTA advocacy on this issue. The California State PTA website (capta.org) outlines this process in the advocacy section of the Toolkit.
Sincerely,
Kathy Rabun
Vice President for Health
#9 by Joe Imbriano on September 15, 2013 - 9:46 am
“PTA has a long record of advocating for children for over 110 years and is always concerned about the health of children.” And for 109 years we never had high powered microwave transmitters on the classroom ceilings and walls and in the kids’ laps emitting spread spectrum, pulse modulated high frequency microwave radiation 6 hours a day 180 days a year.
Looks like Kathy wants to play kick the can. This is not cute.
#10 by FCC response on September 17, 2013 - 9:12 am
Here is the response I received today, Sept 17, 2013:
You are receiving this email in response to your inquiry to the FCC.
Dear Consumer,
Please see the enclosed fact sheet on Wireless Devices and Health Concerns. Thank you for contacting the Federal Communications Commission.
This e-mail contains an attachment that is in “.pdf” format. If you are unable to open this attachment, it is most likely because your computer doesn’t have Adobe Reader, which is the program needed to open these types of files. You can install a free copy of Adobe Reader from the Adobe Web site at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Mailout Attachment Name : SAR.PDF (see attachment )
Representative Number : TSR58
#11 by Joe Imbriano on September 17, 2013 - 9:26 am
http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/google-investing-in-future-tech-jobs
“Students have new Google Chromebooks that give them quick access to a wealth….”
“Sitting on floor mats with Chromebooks in hand, the young researchers navigate….”
“Children as young as those in Pre-K are using the devices…”
THERE IT IS RIGHT IN THEIR LAPS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN RIGHT IN DIRECT PROXIMITY TO THEIR SENSITIVE DEVELOPING REPRODUCTIVE AREAS. May God help us.
#12 by Kua on September 28, 2013 - 10:31 pm
When you see this you’ll know God’s not helping just yet: Unbelievable. Google just joined ALEC http://bit.ly/1982cw3
#13 by infowarrior on February 13, 2014 - 1:28 pm
Apple just set up a huge campus here in Austin. All the schools here are loaded with wireless technology, even the parochial schools. Something is up with this push for sure.
Those board members need to all be thrown out of office, especially the Dr.