Parents sue over wireless network health concerns.Parents of five children sued the Oak Park Elementary School District The Oak Park Elementary School District operates eight elementary schools (K-5, unless otherwise noted) and two middle schools (6-8) in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. The district has 376 teachers (FTEs) serving 4,923 students. in Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. for installing a wireless computer network, worried that exposure to the network's radio waves Radio waves Electromagnetic energy of the frequency range corresponding to that used in radio communications, usually 10,000 cycles per second to 300 billion cycles per second. could harm children. The parents' complaint, filed in Illinois state court in October, references growing evidence showing that "exposure to low intensity, but high radio frequency radiation poses" serious health risks to human beings, particularly children, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Reuters. The school board has said it would monitor research about the safety of the networks, but stated it would still use Wi-Fi. A hearing is scheduled for February. |
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