Wi-Fi in Schools – Are Children Safe?

Posted by: Vidya, Editor

Wi-Fi in schools is commonplace. It’s crept into schools, almost unnoticed. Radiation from Wi-Fi surrounds children all day long while they study. Has anyone noticed the rise in children’s health and behavior problems recently?

There was a time when the only worry about sending children to school were bigger kids who might bully them—or perhaps an incompetent or unsympathetic teacher. Then along came drugs…quickly followed by gangs and guns. Overnight, it seemed that schools changed from a safe, healthy place of learning for children to an environment lurking with frightening and incomprehensible dangers.

Well, this latest danger has come in through the back door, and is all the more dangerous because it’s disguised as something both beneficial and necessary. Wi-Fi is also invisible, so it is easy to ignore. Curricula demanding the use of many computers and other wireless devices now abound in schools—and what could be more convenient than floors free of cables snaking all around the classrooms for people to trip on? Wi-Fi sounds like a godsend.

But, at what cost to children? Most parents have Wi-Fi at home and love the convenience of it, so they may not think twice about sending children off to school to live through days in a similar environment.

The numbers of children suffering from certain diseases have skyrocketed in the last decade, coinciding with the years of the wireless revolution: ADHD, Autism, and Asthma. Fatigue, headaches, depression and anxiety in children are also showing up in doctors’ offices.

Children are more vulnerable to microwave radiation than the general population: (1) their skull bones are thinner and softer, giving radiation easier penetration to the brain, (2) a child’s head contains more water and water acts as a conductor to electromagnetic radiation, and (3) a child’s nervous system is still developing.

Parents might want to question their children’s schools about their use of Wi-Fi. Read more information about Wi-Fi radiation in classrooms. Also watch this video on dangers of Wi-Fi in schools. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN7VetsCR2I).

References:

1. Lai, Henry. Biological Effects of Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. Encyclopedia of Biomat4erials and Biomedical Engineering. G.L. Gowlin and G. Wnek: Taylor and Francis Books, 2005.

2. Persson, Salford, Brun. Blood-brain barrier permeability in rats exposed to electromagnetic fields used in wireless communication; Wireless Networks, Vol 3, Issue 6, Dec. 1997; pg 455-461.

3. BioInitiative Report, August 31, 2007.

4. Mariea, Tamara and Carlo, George. Wireless Radiation in the Etiology and Treatment of Autism: Clinical Observations and Mechanisms; Journal of the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, August 2007.

5. Havas, Magda. Analysis of Health and Environmental Effects of Proposed San Francisco Earthlink Wi-Fi Network. May 31, 2007.

6. Vasil, Adria. “Wi-Fi’s Electric Shock.” NOW Magazine. 9 – 15 Mar. 2006.

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