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School Uniform To Block Cell Phone Emissions
Foehg writes "ForeignPolicy.com reports, 'A Belarusian textile company has developed a special school uniform that protects kids from electromagnetic radiation emanating from their cellphones. The uniform features a dedicated pocket that can store the phone and make it safe for those who wear it.'" Now someone has to create an oven mitt that can protect you from the harmful radiation given off by your microwave oven.
If it also blocks transmission, then students can keep their cell phone on them without worrying about disrupting class or losing their phone.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
This is great news for all of those students going to schools that permit them to carry cell phones.
Wait, what?
If you don't want the students to make/receive calls or text msgs why let 'em have phones with them at all? Wouldn't it be cheaper just order them left in their lockers? Paying for uniforms to block them seems overly complicated and expensive for the very little good it does. This seems more like a scam on the part of a company that wants to feed at the trough of the education bureaucracy. Or so it seems to me.
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff."
How long since you been in a school? Policing such policies is a waste of time and effort. If kids really want to bring in cell phones, they will. Something built into uniforms would allow for policing that doesn't requires effort. Of course, this won't stop the cell phones in kid's backpack unless the backpack is part of the uniform.
But cellphones are perfectly safe according to official doctrine. What is the problem here? Why do we need protecting from something that is officially safe. If they are unsafe then they should be banned.
This is just another pointless protect our Children BS, why not just suggest every parents should bubble wrap their children before they leave the house
I see nothing odd in that. I got my first Nokia cellphone when I was on 5th grade, I think. I'm not sure how long elementary school takes in USA but here in Finland it is 9 years and you finish it when you are 15 or 16 years old (assuming you don't have to redo any year or anything like that). Most Finns have already also given up land lines as everyone in the family has cellphone. (Official cell phone penetration rate is apparently at 128% as there are more phones than people. For comparison, the rate for USA is 86% linky)
So a lot of kids at elementary school have cellphones. At that point question is "Should they be allowed in school or not" and thus "Is there any benefit from that?". The answer is, yes there is. At least I remember numerous times that I didn't come home directly from school but instead went to a friend for a while. It was good for me to have my phone with me and I think that my mother was happy knowing that she could contact me if necessary. Of course I used the phone myself, too. Texted friends if they have gotten off the school yet, etc. etc... Once called an ambulance after school when I saw an accident. So the next question is "Is there any harm from allowing them in schools" and I don't believe there is. There was a rule "Don't let it ring during a lesson or a teacher will take it and your parents will have to come and ask it back.". Some teachers were very strict about that, others were not. But practically everyone had a phone and I don't think I heard a phone ring during a lesson more than ten times or so in total. It was never a problem of any sort, not for teachers and not for students.
A lot of posters have implied that not only would cell phones be allowed in schools but it would be a very odd idea to allow them. Is there any logical reasoning behind this?