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CST supports the use of technology in schools as a necessary educational tool. Hardwired technology solutions are safe.  Wireless technology is not safe.  Children's health, not cost and convenience, needs to be paramount.

Trustingly, parents give their children cell phones for "safety" reasons.  In support of the wireless industry, school districts, community centres and other public venues are now promoting the continued rollout of wireless internet systems.  Few people are yet aware that no testing has ever been conducted on the non-thermal biological effects to young people of non-ionizing radiation.  Neither has there been pre-market testing for everyday devices such as cell phones, DECT or cordless phones, or baby monitors used by or near children.

Children and youth are the most vulnerable to health damage from environmental toxins and pollutants. The pathologies associated with non-thermal biological effects are contradictory to a good learning and living environment, presenting themselves as behavioural changes, a lack of concentration, fatigue, headaches and dizziness, depression, sleep disorders, asthmatic symptoms . . . 

At this point in our history, children are and will be exposed to, and tempted by, an unprecedented array of wireless devices, tools and toys.   Adults have a moral and legal responsibility to protect their children, thereby ensuring their safe and healthy future. 



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May 23
2012

Childhood being eroded by modern life, experts warn

Children spend ever-more time indoors with screen-based technology, rather than in active outdoor activity and play

"Childhood is being eroded by a "relentless diet" of advertising, addictive computer games, test-driven education and poor childcare, a powerful lobby of more than 200 experts warns today."

"In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, the group of academics, teachers, authors and charity leaders says children's wellbeing and mental health is being undermined by the pressures of modern life. They urge the Government to address a culture of "too much, too soon" in Britain.

"This includes a ban on all forms of advertising aimed at the youngest children, the establishment of a play-based curriculum for infants and a public information campaign warning of the dangers of screen-based entertainment.

"The comments came five years after many of the same experts sent similar letter to the Telegraph that criticised politicians and the public for failing to allow children to develop properly at a young age. It led to a debate on the state of childhood in Britain and coincided with the publication of Labour's Children's Plan -- a policy document covering all aspects of young people's lives . . .

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