Members of the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) collaborated to create Digital Devices in the Classroom: Health and Safety Guidelines per HB 817, but they completely left out the biggest health and safety threat to our children: Radio Frequency Radiation (RFR).
RFR emissions are considered a high risk pollutant by the telecom insurance giants due to the significant health effects and injuries this type of radiation may cause. In a recent court case win, EHT/CHD v. FCC, 11,000 pages of evidence demonstrating wireless radiation harms were entered into the record putting the FCC’s current RF radiation safety regulations into question.
RFR is silent and invisible, but independently funded scientists know that constant exposure, even at levels previously thought safe, can have serious and lifelong consequences for children.
In Virginia classrooms, our kids may be exposed to RFR from wireless items such as tablets, laptops, cell phones, WiFi routers and macro/micro cell towers all at once for hours every school day which can cause both short term and long term health issues.
The most common symptoms of overexposure to RFR in children that are well documented by thousands of peer-reviewed independently funded studies are:
- Neuropsychiatric (behavioral) effects anxiety, depression, brain fog, and cognitive impairment
- Nausea
- Autism
- ADHD
- Childhood leukemia
- Brain tumors
- Diabetes
- Prenatal effects
- Insomnia
- Bloody noses
Some factors that contribute to biological harms in classrooms are:
- All wireless devices emit RFR
- Rapid expansion of wireless devices in curricula
- Cumulative RFR from wireless devices are NOT tested in current real-life use patterns
- Multiple devices used in classrooms increase the amount of RFR exposure and power levels needed
- Cell phone towers near and on school property
- Children are uniquely vulnerable to RF radiation because of their still-developing physiology
- Proximity to devices, length of time spent on devices and amount of RF radiation exposure
School administrators have a fiduciary duty of care under locus parentis to provide a safe learning environment for all students. The omission of RFR from the state guidelines leaves school children unprotected while using wireless digital devices. To address this issue, Virginians for Safe Technology sent an eight page legal letter written by the Lawyers Committee on Wireless Radiation and Children’s Health via certified USPS mail on November 9, 2021 to those at the VDOE in charge of creating the digital use guidelines.
It’s time for the VDOE and VDH to update school health guidelines to promote the health of our children over the expansion of the virtual learning programs and investments in wireless technologies.
I, the undersigned resident of Virginia, fully support this formal request by Virginians for Safe Technology calling on the VDOE and VDH to recognize the dangers of RFR in schools, incorporate RFR safety recommendations in the Digital Devices in the Classroom: Health and Safety Guidelines, provide RFR training for nurses and staff, and protect Virginia children accordingly by taking immediate actions to mitigate and reduce RFR in the classrooms and on school property.