RISK LURKING IN SCHOOLS
you see the full effect. We’re concerned when those children become adults their risk of cancer will be much greater. “We could be storing up higher cancer rates in the future. Since radio frequency radiation was graded 2B there have been more studies showing this increased risk.
“In my view it should be on the same level as tobacco and asbestos. It should not be allowed in school.”
Schools in France, Belgium and parts of America already ban or limit wifi use. And campaigners are urging the UK to follow suit until more research is carried out.
Mum-of-three Alisa Keane has taken her three sons out of school because she believes the wifi was making them ill.
Alisa, of Downpatrick, Co Down, said James, nine, Conn, seven, and six-year-old Dara suffered headaches, nausea and concentration issues.
She is now home schooling them after seeing how the “fog” lifted away from the classroom.
And in Doncaster, dad Paul Lewis removed daughter Jessica from her junior school into a private academy after she developed headaches when wifi was introduced in the classroom.
Accountant Paul claims Children have thinner skulls, exquisitely sensitive stem cells, are smaller and face a longer lifetime exposure than adults.
The Chief Medical Officer has warned under-16s should make only “essential calls” on mobiles due to health concerns.
Clearly there should be other warnings for other radio frequency radiation sources.
Hard-wiring school technology allows full internet use with no risk. Schools are being left to decide whether the benefit is worth the risk – this is wrong.
Most teachers don’t even know that this type of radio source has been classified as a Group 2B possible carcinogenic.
This covers all forms of this radiation, including mobiles, wifi and tablets often used by children. Public Heath England believes there is no danger after a raft of studies showed wifi to be safe.
There is no consistent evidence that exposure to radio signals from wifi adversely affects the health of the general population.
The signals are very low power and the results so far show exposures are well within the internally-accepted guidelines from the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.
PHE carried out systematic research into wireless networks and their use in schools, including measurements of exposure from those networks.
On the basis of the published studies, and those carried out in-house, the PHE sees no reason why wifi should not continue to be used in schools and other places.
Jessica, now 15, no longer suffers the mysterious symptoms. He said: “The frustrating thing is there is no need for school wifi.
“They should be using cables until it can be proved there is no risk from electromagnetic fields.”
Sarah Dacre, a trustee of charity Electrosensitivity UK, says they help “hundreds” of people with symptoms including tinnitus, skin rashes, muscle pains and memory loss.
She said: “There are clinics overseas which regularly diagnose ES with a range of tests.
“But there are no such places in the UK and most GPs have no training in handling it.
“New ES cases often tell us they’re unable to use smartphones or wifi routers, and that installation of smart meters has
made their lives impossible.” Diana Hanson, of the Safe School Information Technology Alliance, says parents convinced wifi is making their children sick are often “extremely distressed”.
She said: “People say the risk is minimal by comparing it to things on the Group 2B list such as coffee and exhaust fumes.
“But we don’t give our children 10 coffees a day or sit them in a room full of running cars.”
Classics teacher Michael Bevington works in a wifi-free classroom in Stowe, Bucks, after developing what he believes is electromagnetic sensitivity.
He said: “If people can be allergic to foods and chemicals, it makes sense we can be sensitive to radio waves.”
In my view it is the same as tobacco and asbestos. It should not be in schools DR ANTHONY MILLER WHO CANCER ADVSOR