Push too late and it won’t work.
Yes the R.’s have it but not for much longer. You know folks, I believe that the Fullerton School District parents and children deserve better than R. Schulze, the F.S.D.’s self proclaimed “attack dog of truth” in this fight, R. Pletka, the F.S.D.’s superintendent and what we believe to be his misleading safety assurances, and of course the slick moves of R. Craven, the soon to be ex F.S.D. technology director.
What we believe is on the line are your children’s reproductive and physical health, cognitive function and critical thinking skills’ development in that order.
There are clearly two sides to this debate. On one side it involves an entrenched trillion dollar industry involving companies like APPLE, CISCO, and GOOGLE with orders from The Executive Branch to roll this out, along with servile school administrators and staff who appear to be unable to wrap their arms around the other side of the story or simply refuse to expose themselves to it. On the other side of the aisle are thousands of peer reviewed articles and the scientists behind them, flanked by parents that simply see the forest for the trees, sound the alarm and say no. So the ten thousand dollar question is why do the teachers, board members, administrators, staff, PTA and foundations all appear to have blindfolds on and earplugs in? We now begin to peel back the layers of the proverbial onion for you.
This just came in from Ray, one of our commenters that dares to care and dares to tell it like it is. With his logging thousands of hours of research on this issue spanning over 20 years, and his flagship website WIFI IN SCHOOLS.COM , he writes:
“Parents deserve quality information, not heavily biased industry-influenced reporting from a hack website. For the past several months we’ve been reading post after post by this R. Schulze individual. He’s been providing links to scientific reports claiming that EMR radiation is not a health issue.
Schulze has consistently refused to acknowledge any and all scientific evidence that reports EMR radiation to be harmful. He just pretends that it doesn’t exist, and instead refers us to links provided by a website called “EMF and Health”. This site is blatantly biased, and promotes a denialist perspective.
Well I did some digging on this website and learned founded by an electronics tycoon by the name of Lorne Trottier.
Trottier, who has deep ties to the wireless industry, financed an operation to public deny the hazards of EMR radiation and the validity of electro-sensitivity. He hired 60 academics, mostly from McGill University and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, to which he has donated tens of millions of dollars.
Another of EMF and Health’s contributors is Michel Plante, a consultant for Hydro Quebec, one of the largest electrical utilities in Canada.
http://www.emfandhealth.com/
Joe Schwarz of EMF and Health is also a known industry shill who not only defends the safety of EMF, but also the safety of Aspartame, pesticides, and GMO, etc, for companies the like of Monsanto. Schwartz is also the Director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, which is “dedicated to demystifying science for the public”, and which receives millions in funding from the Lorne Trottier family trust.
http://alexconstantine.
Parents deserve to have high quality scientific information and should be warned that the pro-EMF site Schulze has been referring to is anything but independent science.”
DON’T BANK YOUR FAMILY’S LINEAGE AND YOUR CHILDREN’S HEALTH ON EMPTY PROMISES BY THOSE WHO WILL LONG SINCE BE RETIRED IF IT TURNS OUT THAT WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE ALL HAVE SKIN IN THIS GAME, AND THE REASON WE AT THE FULLERTON INFORMER DO IS SO THAT YOUR CHILDREN WON’T.
GET INFORMED AND GET INVOLVED.
#1 by Ray on September 22, 2013 - 6:45 am
According to Apple’s product information guide, iPads emit even more radiation than cell phones.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1524/en_US/iPad_Important_Product_Information_Guide.pdf
Also, the scientific literature clearly shows that children absorb more radiation than adults.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21999884
According to the scientific evidence itself, it would be reasonable to state that children who use iPads for long periods of time are likely to have a significantly increased risk of developing cancer.
But what kind of risk are we talking about? Isn’t that really the question? I mean there are all kinds of risks in life. As Schulze points out, there are many issues in the world, including hunger, disease, injury, etc.
According to high quality independently funded research by Dr. Lennart Hardell of Sweden:
For every 100 hours of cellphone use, the risk of brain cancer increases by 5%.
So how many hours would children in Fullerton schools be exposed?
175 days x 6 hours = 875 hours per year.
That means after each year of exposure to these wireless devices there would be a 44% increased risk of brain cancer.
After 13 years this comes to a 572% increased risk of cancer. For adults that is.
For children, the increased risk would be much more, as research shows that they have at least double the risk of adults.
So according to these calculations, children would have an 1100% increased risk of brain cancer as a result of using an iPad at school.
This does not include time spent doing homework or other extraneous activities.
#2 by Holly on September 22, 2013 - 8:32 am
This is unbelievable. How can this be true?
I have spoken with my son’s teacher and principal and they both assured me that the Ipads were SAFE.
I had no idea that they are more powerful than a cell phone.
Why are the parents not being provided with this information by the school. There was no mention of this information anywhere in all of the packets sent home.
#3 by Joe Imbriano on September 22, 2013 - 9:47 am
That is a very good question. The superintendents of the the Fullerton School District, The Fullerton Joint Union High School District, The Orange County Department of Education, and the Board of Trustees of each have been repeatedly provided with this information. The entire administrative staff of the FSD was made aware as well.
That question needs to be directed towards your principal. Holly, are your children in Fullerton?
#4 by Schulzee on September 22, 2013 - 4:36 pm
I think we have a bigger problem: The water in the drinking fountains and the air in the air has not proven to be safe at Acacia either. I’ll look into it.
#5 by mom1 on September 22, 2013 - 1:02 pm
Holly,
As a parent, and before I started researching this myself, all I had to do was read the first of many letters from medical doctors & scientists to LAUSD imploring them not to use wireless technology in the classroom:
http://www.wifiinschools.com/lausd-testimony.html
This was all I needed to tell me that this is harmful.
The schools will have to answer you as to why they are not telling you this information and also why they think they can risk our children’s health for the sake of using wireless technology.
#6 by Schulzee on September 22, 2013 - 4:33 pm
Are you actually invoking a dose-response curve in your argument/calculation when clearly the Interphone study in fact does not support a such a consistent mechanism???
#7 by Ray on September 23, 2013 - 3:41 am
Based on 20 years of research, Dr. Lennart Hardell has concluded that there is a dose-response curve with regard to cell phones and brain tumors.
The more microwave radiation exposure, the higher the risk of brain tumors.
Given that iPads emit even more radiation than cell phones, it would be likely that the same would apply to children who experience long-term exposure to microwave radiation from these devices.