Just about everything in this election can be summarized as pure and simple boil over from The Fullerton School District’s technology plan that is at COMPLETE ODDS WITH The Fullerton Joint Union High School District. THE CANDIDATES JUST WON’T PUBLICLY TALK ABOUT IT.
ITS ALL ABOUT THE KIDS? YEAH RIGHT!
You see folks, under the direction Robert Pletka with the support of the board members Beverly Berryman, Hilda Sugarman, Chris Thompson, Janny Meyer, and Lynne Thornly, now almost every last one of the 15,000 children in Fullerton’s Elementary schools are being forcibly exposed to wireless radiation all day long and are being forced to use a wireless iPad or wireless laptop at school. The district refuses to provide an education without a wireless environment.
In the Fullerton Joint Union High School District which encompasses Fullerton, Buena Park and La Habra, under the direction of George Giokaris with the governing board members, the 14,000 students are using textbooks in a classical setting with no wireless exposure. The board decided to hard wire all of the Common Core computer labs throughout the entire district. Now even that is being reconsidered and wireless looms even as the Troy High School technology director Jesse Knowles himself recovers from a brain tumor.
So what we are left with is this so called infamous technology GAP between the elementary schools and the high schools. Let’s have a closer look at this gap.
K-8 students are constantly staring into screens and being forcibly exposed to microwave emission levels that are trillions of times background levels at school.
This has also bled over into the homes forcing families to install WiFi systems in their homes and apartments so the children can do their homework. This has also bled over into the infant care and after school daycare facilities so the children can do their homework there. It is really so they can play video games now instead of going outside to play.
Bandwidth is always an issue demanding the deployment of more and more wireless access points and even new technologies increasing the classroom exposure.
It is worth noting that EVERY CLASSROOM IN THE FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS FIBER OPTIC CONNECTIVITY TO THE WALLS and yet they have chosen wireless as the end connection ignoring research and warnings of scientists and medical doctors.
http://wifiinschools.com/lausd-testimony.html
There is no opt out provision in any of this. In addition, these radiation levels are not low power as levels that are trillions of times background levels, they are not healthy, and not natural period.
Lets look at the High schools where students are currently carrying textbooks and attending classes that do not have WiFi systems deployed in them. They utilize state of the art hardwired computers when needed. They can then go home and choose what form of computers they use, with the connectivity they desire, wired or not. There is no need for an opt out provision as there is no forced microwave exposure.
I believe there is egg on the faces of the FSD board members, their staunch supporters and mud all over Robert Pletka’s wth the FJUHSD deciding to hardwire all of their campuses and abruptly halt the plans for wireless deployment based on safety concerns.
The tensions between these groups is tremendous. While it may not be evident to the public at large, I firmly believe that it is THE DRIVING FORCE IN THE ELECTION for the three governing board positions.
The players in the FSD are, in my opinion, in large part responsible for riffs that are emerging with the city hall crowd as well. It is all connected in my opinion, and you can trace it all back to them.
It would not surprise me if there were plans to do away with the High School Board and bring everything under FSD control perhaps even doing away with the FJUHSD administration altogether.
It all boils down to the following: THE FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO IRRADIATE YOUR KIDS.
The following statement has been prepared by Diane Hickey, co founder of NACST.ORG and has been sent to all of the candidates. We will post their responses as they come in.
To: Fullerton Joint Union High School Board Candidates
Marilyn Buchi, Joanne Fawley, Zina Gleason, Bob Hathaway, MJ Noor*, Robert Singer, Ph.D. (*sent via candidate portal)
All Fullerton Joint Union High School District candidates for trustee should be keenly aware of the following, recently released messages regarding wireless radiation in our children’s classrooms. They all have the same message: hardwire the school technology.
University of California, Berkeley, Center for Community and Family Health, “Some Tips To Reduce Your Exposure to Wireless Radiation”
Among these are:
“Turn off wi-fi on devices being used by kids”
“ . . . use hardwired networks in schools to provide Internet access.”
The link is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B14R6QNkmaXuT1o0aDhWRERmYlE/edit?pli=1
Doctors For Safer Schools
“We ask School Boards, educators and parents to realize existing standards fail to protect students and staff. We call upon governments to update their safety standards and make them relevant to non-thermal exposures, including WiFi.”
The link is here: http://doctorsforsaferschools.org/2014.Doctors.for.Safer.Schools.pdf
This website is of particular interest to pregnant teachers that are working every day in wireless classrooms. It features Dr. Hugh Taylor, Chief of Obstetrics, Yale University Hospital, discussing the scientific studies that demonstrate exposures to wireless radiation results in degradation of memory and learning, most notably ADHD: The BabySafe Project: “Protect Your Baby from Wireless Radiation”
http://www.babysafeproject.org
The messages coming out could not be plainer or more insistent: hardwire the school technology. The Fullerton School District (K-8) trustees were provided the first and third items in July. For over a year and a half, the FSD has been presented with information on the dangers of wireless classrooms.
You should also be aware that in 2012 an Italian court ruled that wireless radiation emitted from cell phones can cause brain tumors.
Italian Court Ruling is here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9619514/Mobile-phones-can-cause-brain-tumours-court-rules..html
When we examine product liability on cell phones, “The insurance industry has refused to provide product liability insurance on cell phones primarily due to this concern as they fear that cell phone litigation may turn out like tobacco or asbestos litigation did with huge punitive awards.”
That link is here: http://www.saferemr.com/2014/08/major-breakthrough-in-cellphone.html
As an FJUHSD school board member, please consider Sections IV and V in the Orange County Department of Education, Liability Under Section 1983. This document addresses personal liability exposure for school board trustees.
That link is here: http://www.ocde.us/LegalServices/Documents/LIABILITY_UNDER_SECTION_1983_wcopyright.pdf
These messages stand on their own. They must translate into a wired technology program, one that does not carry the serious health detriments of wireless and is known to be a secure and reliable connection.
Sincerely,
Diane Hickey, Co-Founder
National Association For Children and Safe Technology
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Some Tips to Reduce Your Exposure to Wireless Radiation2.pdf
#1 by Anonymous on October 31, 2014 - 8:58 pm
Our schools have been privatized to Cisco Systems, the Military, and other demons who are at the feeding trough of the Dept. of Education’s billion dollar handouts. Our schools have become training grounds for students to enter the tech industries. So, Cisco systems designs curriculum the tax payers pay for their job training, and our kids move right into the tech jobs and Cisco gets a free ride, at out expense, to train their future employees. The following 2 links tell the whole story.
This is about the worst educational / mind controlled program that anyone could imagine. Now the schools no longer teach cursive which directly affects brain development. They are totally dependent on their ipads and don’t have the experience of moving a pen across a piece of paper which has already been shown to be a superior method of information gathering.
DoD Starbase Youth Program – Reserve Affairs
ra.defense.gov/Programs/…/DoDSta…
United States Department of Defense
The DoD STARBASE Program is managed by the Assistant Secretary of … was created in 1989 through a grant from the Kellogg Foundation and first began at … caring role models provided by the STARBASE team and military personnel. … school and high school program is an after school STEM mentoring program that …
Military recruitment is (still) not a STEM education …
http://www.peacevoice.info/…/military-recruitment-is-still-not-a-stem-educatio...
Oct 31, 2013 – “I am a parent of a an elementary school student in Portland, Ore., and early this week I discovered our school is participating in the STARBASE program. … The STARBASE concept was devised in 1989 by Barbara Koscak, …
http://www.wirelesswatchblog.org
When you have time, please hear me out and consider this. Many of us know that silicon valley is writing education policy, but so is Walmart–the epitome of what has destroyed America. But this email is not about Walmart, that is just a fun fact. Please bear with me below regarding a possible legal angle based on Vergara v CA–in case you have not already considered.
http://time.com/3533556/the-war-on-teacher-tenure/
The argument in Vergara v. California took that same idea but added a controversial twist. Instead of examining the equality of students’ educational opportunities by comparing discrete facts–like the amount of time spent in class or the amount of funding a school receives per student–Welch’s lawyers made the case that the court should compare the quality of students’ in-class learning experiences. They argued that students who are stuck in classrooms with bad teachers receive an education that is substantially inferior to that of students who are in classrooms with good teachers. Laws that keep bad teachers in the classroom, they concluded, therefore violate the equal-protection clause of the state constitution. They also argued that poor and minority students, who are more likely to be in classrooms with bad teachers, endure a disproportionate burden, making the issue a matter of civil rights as well.
Happily for Welch’s lawyers, their innovative argument happened to coincide with a flood of new academic research on teacher quality that could serve as evidence in court…. Using a controversial tool called value-added measures (VAM) to control for factors like race and poverty rates, they found that replacing a poorly performing teacher with an excellent one could increase students’ lifetime earnings by $250,000 per classroom. “The fact that we could show how students were actually harmed by bad teachers–that changed the argument,” says Marcellus McRae, an attorney on the case.
so, does this follow? how are students harmed by bad technology or teaching methods, environmental exposures?
I’m thinking that this decision may be applied to wifi in schools. I know we have considered the constitutional component all along, but here they successfully use it. bad teachers are legal obstructions to children’s constitutional rights to a good education. Isn’t wifi the same for these reasons
1. ehs kids, granted will be hard to prove, but not impossible , esp considering lausd teacher accomodation
a. health effects in general
2. fertility
3. . studies showing impairment of cognition, memory, critical thinking, loss of social skills
4.. studies showing that computer learning in general is inferior to pen and paper
5. studies showing negative impact on behavioral
6. studies showings synergistic effects with other toxic exposures
http://time.com/3533556/the-war-on-teacher-tenure/
tech magnate driven–this is crazy–who is driving the vehicle for easily getting rid of teachers; the same who unelectedly revamped our curriculums and methods of teaching, installing their own products in our schools and harming our children.
It is a reflection of our politics that no one elected these men to take on the knotty problem of fixing our public schools, but here they are anyway, fighting for what they firmly believe is in the public interest. David Welch, the 53-year-old engineer and businessman behind Vergara, is the least well known of a half-dozen tech titans who are making the repair of public education something of a second career. In the past 15 years, Microsoft’s Bill Gates has poured billions into everything from helping states write and implement the Common Core State Standards to building a new history curriculum. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has dropped $220 million on public schools in Newark, N.J., and the San Francisco Bay Area, while Netflix’s Reed Hastings has spent millions more on buttressing the charter-school movement in California and beyond. For the past four years, PayPal’s Peter Thiel has been divvying out dozens of $100,000 “scholarships” to kids who are willing to ditch university in favor of “self-education.”
This latest batch of tech tycoons turned education reformers follows in the footsteps of a long line of older magnates, from the Carnegies and Rockefellers to Walmart’s Waltons, who have also funneled their fortunes into education-reform projects built on private-sector management strategies. While this newer class of tech philanthropists are in some ways similar to the older generation, they also come to school reform having been steeped in the uniquely modern, libertarian, free-market Wild West of tech entrepreneurship–a world where data and innovation are king, disruption is a way of life, and the gridlock and rules of modern politics are regarded as a kind of kryptonite to how society ought to be.
“Life in a Silicon Valley operation is, O.K., we need to change something. How do I create an agent of change?” Welch explains, sitting in a windowless boardroom at the Cupertino, Calif., headquarters of his company, Infinera, which makes fiber-optic communications technology. “But here you have the most important aspect of society, in my mind at least–the ability to educate our children–and it’s incapable of change. It’s failing, and it doesn’t want to acknowledge that it’s failing, much less do anything about it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/california-teacher-tenure-laws-ruled-unconstitutional.html?
appeal won for overturning teachers tenure
http://neatoday.org/2014/09/01/california-governor-appeals-court-ruling-overturning-protections-for-teachers/
http://studentsmatter.org/victory/
fundamental right to education