News US parents sue over WLAN school fears

From el Reg:

Parents in Oak Park, Illinois, have launched a class action lawsuit against their local school board for allegedly threatening the health of children by installing wireless local area network technology in classrooms.

The lawsuit, reported by Wi-Fi Networking News, alleges that Oak Park Elementary School District 97 has "ignored the substantial body of evidence that high frequency electro-magnetic radiation poses substantial and serious health risks, particularly to growing children".

Full story here

 

hmmmmmmmmm.....

Is this just another way of making some money?

 

Uh, um... Yea... Dangerous...

More like
"I'm not familiar with this technology..."
"It used high-frequency radio waves?"
"Let's sue... I need one of those new 2.4ghz cordless phones and a new cell phone anyway"

Idiots with money are a REAL bad combination.

 

The school should just continue the rollout, and then mandate that a lead-lined flying helmet should be worn at all times by the students as part of their school uniform.

 

That'll be the day hahahahahah

 

Yep, just another one of those.

Those same parents should be sued for injuring their childrens health by using cell phone near them.

 

I'm subjected to those dangerous waves all the time, both at school and at home...

 

Yup , next let's remove all satilites, no DirectTv( or dish network ) oops, radio/TV stations have to go down next. oh boy ... the Sun, lets just put a shield around that ... oh wait, space in general, and don't forget people with high pitched voices. ugh

 

dont forget mobile phones work on microwaves, ban them aswell. ive heard thet a mobile phone could cook an egg if put next to it and it rang 4 a whole year!!!

Only in america i say. its lame and stupid. why cant they just b thankful that the school has the cash to buy these things. if the parents win then they probably wont have the money for heating let alone fancy computer networking.

 

I've seen many news stories about funky things like this over there too

 

Bunch of switches and some Cat5 cable would solve that problem.

 

^^

U would be surprissed, this would be an awful solution.

Certainly in the college iam at, the lecturers would have serious difficulties plugging it into the network... to damn st00pid

 

Is suing each other the American national past time now?

 

It has been for a while IMO. Just been getting towards bigger and sillier things now.

 

Great, if the radiation doesn't get them, the lead poisoning will

 

lead poisioning makes u stupid, does that mean the American still hav lead water pipes???

 

Yup, you gotta love how everything is only in america, the recall, the countless lawsuits, everything that's idiotic is in america

 

Yeah. The only nation where you'd be kidnapped by aliens seems to be america. Most of the serial killers seem to reside in america. You can sue somebody because the coffee is to hot. I'm not saying its idiotic, but it is rather strange

 

No comments about everything else, but most serial killers seem to reside in America, cos thats the only place that makes a huge fuss about them and gives them that amount of TV and newspaper coverage. And it is a bloody huge country. So logic says that there must be more such people over there than in a smaller country.