http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-2461748,00.html
A note to any headmasters reading this.
If any luddites come and slap a petition down on your desk, asking for the removal of a wireless network.
Agree. Then, a week later, ban all mobile phones from the school. Not just no using them, must be on silent, ban, as in no phones withint 50 feet of the school. After all, mobile phones use microwaves too, and emit much more strongly than wireless networking equipment, and so must be harming children even more, mustn’t they?
See how quickly the petition disappears after you throw that at them.
on November 25th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
“Michael Bevington, a CLASSICS teacher for 28 years at the school, said that he had such a violent reaction to the network that he was too ill to teach.”
Not the most expert of testimonies.
on November 25th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Thats not the thing that bothers me most, it’s the double standards.
Wireless network = bad, but mobile phone and microwave ovens = good.
Seems to be the trend with most campaigns these days, they draw the line at where whatever they are campaigning against becomes inconvienient, rather than everything their campaign should encompass.
In fact, a lot of campaigns irritate me full stop. Instead of holding a protest about an issue, and pretending that this single act will change the earth, actually spend the time doing something actively about the issue.
on November 26th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
What did you expect? Most people don’t realise that the power broadcast from an aerial is insignificant to the source of microwaves next to their ear. Living closer to an aerial results in a lower dose, not a greater one.