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Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban

Posted by Soulskill on from the frying-their-developing-brains dept.

New submitter KJE writes "The CBC is reporting that an Ontario teachers' union is calling for an end to new Wi-Fi setups in the province's 1,400-plus Catholic schools. The Ontario English Catholic Teacher's Association (OECTA) says computers in all new schools should be hardwired instead of setting up wireless networks. The OECTA, in its paper (PDF), said the 'safety of this technology has not thoroughly been researched and therefore the precautionary principle and prudent avoidance of exposure should be practiced.'"

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  1. Call your union rep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    On your cellphone

    1. Re:Call your union rep by Niedi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Naaaah, they don't have that, that's too dangerous... Much safer to stick to your good old wireless DECT (6.0) homephone...

    2. Re:Call your union rep by Anomalyst · · Score: 5, Funny

      Its been my experience that educators are the hardest to educate. It amazes me that they manage to dress themselves in the morning.

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    3. Re:Call your union rep by Curunir_wolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've never seen a Catholic wearing a tinfoil hat. Can you provide evidence for this claim?

      Whoa! Really? Never seen the pope? Why do you think that friggin' hat is so big, anyway? Yep, totally lined with tin-foil.

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    4. Re:Call your union rep by LordLimecat · · Score: 5, Funny

      Aluminum isnt harmless either. You think its safe to drink from that coke can, but what if it was 5*10^32 kg and exerted a sufficient gravity field to crush your body?

    5. Re:Call your union rep by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 4, Funny

      What's next? Banning [...] outdoor recess?

      Yes. Recess is dangerous.

  2. I'm Surprised by JBMcB · · Score: 4, Funny

    They didn't also require AC receptacle plug covers installed so electricity doesn't leak out of the wall sockets and give everyone cancer.

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  3. Re:Well then... by hughJ · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should ban the ingesting of the Eucharist as the science is still not settled on the effects of transubstantiation.

  4. Re:The "Precautionary Principle" by couchslug · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Honestly, I think it's time to re-evaluate the usefullness and legitimacy of the "Precautionary Principle"."

    Let's play safe and keep it instead. Think of the children.

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  5. I would like to buy your rock by gubers33 · · Score: 3, Funny

    My offer is $100, but if your rock fails me, you must use some of that $100 to buy a wireless router to kill the Lion that ate me.

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  6. Re:Woohoo! by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly. They have hire people to carry those data-packets around.

  7. Re:Remove all 2.45 GHz emitting devices by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems like the local IT would rise up in opposition.

    Are you kidding? All that spectrum no longer being used? We could have wireless internet at gigabit speeds on mountain tops! And thanks to the ban on EM radiation, no-one will be allowed to use the equipment needed to detect that we're doing it!

  8. Re:Microwave ovens haven't come to Ontario yet? by seanellis · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, the real reason was what happens if you walk into a hospital and say you are there for an NMR (say it out loud, quickly).

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