Work on Safer Schools
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Our faculty includes:
• Kent Chamberlin, PhD, Vice-Chair of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of EMF’s, Chair Emeritus of the Dept of Electrical Engineering, Univ of New Hampshire
• Cindy Russell, MD, Executive Director, Physicians for Safe Technology, breast surgeon, and Co-Chair of Environmental Health for CA’s Santa Clara County Medical Society
• Julian Gresser, JD, international public interest attorney, professional negotiator, Chairman of the BroadBand International Legal Action Network
• Doug Wood, Director of Tech Safe Schools and Americans for Responsible Technology and President of Grassroots Environmental Education, a non-profit recognized by the EPA for excellence in children’s environmental health.
• Natalie Sadler, MD, psychiatrist in Black Mountain, NC, with more than 30 years of clinical practice; expert on treating EMF-related mood symptoms
• Mary Anne Tierney, RN, MPH, Director of SafeTech NC, electromagnetic radiation specialist certified by the Building Biology Institute, CEO of Blue Ridge EMF Solutions
The individual presentations of our faculty will be available soon at Tech Safe Schools.
We are very grateful for the technical support and teaching content provided by:
Let us know how we can help you implement these solutions in your school.
Reach us at: Info@SafeTechNC.org or fill out our Contact Form.
Turning Down the Dial on Wireless Radiation in NC’s Schools: Science, Symptoms, Solutions & the Legal Imperative to Protect our Children
Free Resources
Free resources to implement safer tech interventions in schools can be found here.
Thanks to TechSafe Schools!
Presentation Slides (PDFs)
01 – Intro and Policies – Mary Anne Tierney
02 – FCC & Biological Effects – Kent Chamberlin
03 – Wireless Radiation as Toxicant – Dr. Cindy Russell
04 – Two Patient Case Studies – Dr. Natalie Sadler
05 – Legal Imperative to Protect Children – Julian Gresser
06 – Tech Solutions – Doug Wood
07 – Interventions for Protecting Children – Mary Anne Tierney
Work with us on Safer Tech Schools!
Modern classrooms are unfortunately filled with wireless devices, each emitting wireless radiation. This sad reality makes having a tech-safe home even more important, so their brains and bodies can recover overnight.
- Join our Tech Safe Schools Team! Contact us here. This is a critically important effort. And it is best to have support!
- Our Go-To source for sharing solutions with local school leaders is Tech Safe Schools, a project of the Grassroots Environmental Education, an award-winning non-profit organization based in New York. We appreciate the razor-sharp guidance of TechSafe Schools:
Let’s protect our kids.
Let’s hardwire our schools.
Hardwiring Schools
Hardwiring access to the internet is always the safest means of connectivity. And this also requires time, money, and collective willingness to implement. When this is not viable:
Here are some of TechSafe School’s resources:
• Parent Advocate Program which will send legal and education information to superintendents on your behalf
• Written resources to print for school officials
• Samples of protective school policies
• Guidance on hardwiring tech in schools
• Options to reduce the radiation emissions
To see the details of a successful intervention at lowering the radiation emissions in one school, see Safe Living Technologies’ report here.
To Express Your Concern
To express your concern:
- Contact your child’s teacher and principal, Superintendent or headmaster (rather than the IT director)
- Contact the NC Dept of Public Instruction’s Director of digital Teaching & Learning: Rob Dietrich at rob.dietrich@dpi.nc.gov 984-236-2942
Ask your child’s teacher(s) to:
- Seat your child away from the classroom’s wireless router
- Spend less time be spent using technology, and more time using books and interacting face to face.
- Allow you to measure the wireless radiation with a reliable RFR meter, such as the Safe & Sound Pro II found here.
- You can also borrow SafeTech NC’s loaner meter (same as above). Contact us at Meter@SafeTechNC.org
Ask the Principal, Superintendent, and/or Headmaster to arrange for the following: (Permission should not be a decision of the IT staff, who are trained on connectivity and not responsible for children’s ultimate safety.
- Ask for the router be moved from the middle of the room to a corner with little traffic.
- Install “teacher controls” from their laptops/PCs for turning the router is on/off in each classroom. Many districts control this at their central office.
- Or install on-demand wall switches so that Wi-Fi is used only for periods when needed, rather than constantly emitting a signal.
- Lower the transmit power of routers / wireless access points. In most cases, the power level is factory-set at maximum power, and can be reduced by up to 80% with little or no impact on performance. Learn more.
- Hardwire the teachers’ stationery computer, smartboards, speakers, cameras, etc. In many classrooms, ethernet connectively is already in place but not being utilized.
- Adjust the frequency of the beacon signal (the number of times the router reaches out for incoming signals), which will reduce exposure. Learn more.
Do not accept the school or district’s offer or information on a professional assessment using FCC standards, which average all the radiation levels – like stretching out a mountain range. The FCC standards account only for the heating of skin.
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Share your concerns with your local Board of Education and PTA or PTO.
- Speak at one of their month meetings. These are typically short and strictly timed opportunities for public comment. You can use this as an example, beginning at 1:40:55 If your child is having symptoms related to wireless radiation, encourage them to speak as well.
- Work with school leaders to develop and enforce a policy on cell phone use in school. This is the most rapid and controllable means to reduce the radiation levels in classrooms. Here are links to some schools with policies on cell phone use:
◦ Milwaukee Public Schools
◦ Forest Hills Public Schools
◦ Framingham Middle Schools - Request that the Board of Education adopt a policy to prevent or cease the leasing of cell towers on your district’s schools, like this one from Roanoke County, VA.
- Ask school nurses to review the most commons symptoms common to wireless exposure, found here. This will help with identifying teachers or other students who might also be affected.
- Help create a school or district plan for SafeTech Schools. Ask us for assistance. You can reach us here.
- More School Resources:
• The Environmental Health Trust has prepared this Toolkit on Wi-Fi in Schools ;
• Physicians for Safe Technology has numerous studies and letters from doctors here.
