Parents Sue School Over Use of Wi-Fi Network

Iphtashu Fitz writes "Both news.com and Wired are reporting that an Illinois school district is being sued by parents over their use of a Wi-Fi network at a local elementary school. Apparently the parents of 5 students are concerned about potential health risks to their children by the Wi-Fi radio signals. The parents are seeking class-action status for their suit, which seeks to halt the use of wireless networks but does not ask for monetary damages. The complete complaint is also available for your reading pleasure on wifinetnews.com." I would never have guessed that the emissions from a wireless network are bad, unlike the healthy emissions given off by the now inescapable cell phones that are everywhere in public.

Comments

They Should Just Withdraw their Children

[Greyfox]

Because with the level of inbreeding that must be going on over there, no amount of schooling is going to help their kids anyway!

Damn. I think I'm channeling Lewis Black today...

This makes me want to yak.

[guacamolefoo]

Normally, I'm all for plaintiffs. After all, I'm a plaintiffs' attorney. But this smacks of idiocy. I bet it gets tossed on summary judgment. I'd ask for Rule 11 (or Rule 11-type if an analogous state court rule exists since this is in state court) sanctions as well if I were defense counsel. Jesus H. Christ on a fucking crutch.

GF.

Re:Sad

[keith.bronstrup.com]

Excuse me, I work at Burger King and must respond to this.

First off, fuck you very much, kind sir, for your derogitory (sp?) implications toward my place of work.

Secondly, registers in most stores currently use 10-base ethernet, but now that most stores (at least in my franchise) have DSL and the rest have sat connections, they will soon be linked to each other via a Wi-Fi network, which the computers in the office will also be linked to. This will allow them to transmit daily sales statistics via a VPN rather than the current dial-up connection being used for this purpose. This will also allow reports to be pulled from the office computers, so employees no longer have to be at a register to pull a sales or time-clock report.

Lastly, the above networking future of the stores is just the reason these parents would not let thier kids work at Burger King -- if it is such a problem for them at school!