Classrooms in Crisis, could wireless technology be responsible?

As teachers report more violent incidents in schools, boards struggle to manage children with complex needs

Educators at the Toronto District School Board, the country’s largest school district, logged 3,831 reports of workplace violence over the past academic year, up from 1,894 reports in 2014-15. In Edmonton, the number of violent incidents against staff members involving students documented by Edmonton Public Schools more than doubled between the 2015-16 academic year and 2017-18. At the Surrey School District, the largest in B.C., the number of reported violent incidents by a student against a staff member climbed from 190 in 2008-09 to 1,642 in the 2017-18 school year.

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Graph coincides with the installation of wifi in our schools.

'I felt helpless': Teachers call for support amid 'escalating crisis' of classroom violence

Last year, the national organization compiled the results of a survey conducted for the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO). The online survey, which polled its 81,000 members, found that 70 per cent of Ontario elementary teachers reported experiencing or witnessing violence during the 2016-17 school year.  Verbal threats, physical assault and incidents involving weapons were among the most frequently reported, according to Brown.

http://tinyurl.com/y37nkhoj

Classrooms in Crisis: Verbal, physical, sometimes violent outbursts plaguing Oregon classrooms.

 “When I first started teaching, I’d have maybe one or two students in the classroom with an unstable home life,” said 4th and 5th-grade teacher Cynthia Honma. “Now, I literally might have almost every child in my class.” 

http://tinyurl.com/y4ukfq8a

'It's exhausting': parents, professionals grapple with child anxiety

One in eight children can be diagnosed with childhood anxiety, said Tammy Schamuhn, a child psychologist at Edmonton's Institute of Child Psychology, a rate she said has increased 50 per cent in the last 30 years.  "Our genetics haven't changed, so it has to be the environment," she said. "Something is changing in the environment that's causing this."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/childhood-anxiety-rise-technology-play-behaviour-1.4551445

BC Ministry of Education slaps a $8.8 million dollar band-aid on the escalating increase in classroom violence and mental health.  We need to find the CAUSE!

https://tinyurl.com/yy34trmf

Published Studies

Ahuja et al., Autism: An epigenomic side-effect of excessive exposure to electromagnetic fields International Journal of Medical and Medical Sciences Vol. 5(4), pp. 171-177, April (2013) https://academicjournals.org/article/article1378991538_Ahuja%20et%20al.pdf

Bioinitiative Working Group, Bioinitiative 2012: A Rationale for a Biologically-based
Exposure Standard, 2012 & 2014, Section 1, Preface, pages 1-3, Section 11 Table of
Contents, pages 1-5, Section 1, Summary for Public, 2014, Section 2, Statement of the Problem, 2007, https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/BioInitiativeReport-RF-Color-Charts.pdf

Boumosleh, Jocelyne, et al., Depression, anxiety, and smartphone addiction in university students- A cross sectional study. Plos One August 2017 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182239

Hardell, Lennart, "World Health Organization, radiofrequency radiation and health - a hard nut to crack (Review)," International Journal of Oncology
51, June 2017, 405-413 https://www.spandidos-publications.com/ijo/51/2/405

Gupta, Sukesh Kumar et al., Long-term exposure of 2450 MHz electromagnetic radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats, Neurochemisty International, Volume 128, September 2019. Pages 1-13

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019701861830634X?dgcid=raven_sd_recommender_email&fbclid=IwAR0_7PwVc-2TDmr2FXBFKFek9CclyJgqK8oCkqHNxHF7JyIij6IBwzqxDiM

Herbert, M.R. and Sage, C. “Autism and EMF? Plausibility of a Pathophysiological Link”. Part 1:Pathophysiology , 2013, Jun;20(3):191-209, Pubmed abstract for Part 1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0928468013000370

Herbert, M.R. and Sage, C. “Autism and EMF? Plausibility of a Pathophysiological Link”. Part II: Pathophysiology, 2013 Jun;20(3):211-34. Epub Pubmed abstract for Part II. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0928468013000382

Kaplan, Suleyman, et al., “Electromagnetic field and brain development,” Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 75 Nov. 2015 pages 52-61 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891061815000952

Naval Medical Research Institute Research Report, June 1971. Bibliography of Reported Biological Phenomena (“Effects”) and Clinical Manifestations Attributed to Microwave and Radio-Frequency Radiation. Report No. 2 Revised. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/750271.pdf

Pall, Martin L. “Electromagnetic fields act via activation of voltage-gated calcium channels to produce beneficial or adverse effects.” Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 17.8 (2013): 958- 965. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242331926_Electromagnetic_fields_act_via_activation_of _voltage-gated_calcium_channels_to_produce_beneficial_or_adverse_effects

Pall, Martin L., "Microwave frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF's) produce widespread neuropsychiatric effects including depression," Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy 75, Aug. 2015 pages 43-51 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891061815000599

Pall, Martin L., "Scientific evidence contradicts findings and assumptions of Canadian Safety Panel 6: microwaves act through voltage-gated calcium channel activation to induce biological impacts at non-thermal levels, supporting a paradigm shift for microwave/lower frequency electromagnetic field action," De Gruyter, Rev Environ Health 30(2): April 2015 pages 99-116 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275052209_Scientific_evidence_contradicts_findings_and_assumptions_of_Canadian_Safety_Panel_6_Microwaves_act_through_voltage-gated_calcium_channel_activation_to_induce_biological_impacts_at_non-thermal_levels_s

Pall, Martin L., "Wi-Fi as a Very Substantial Threat to Human Health," Feb. 2017

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355

Sage, Cindy, Child Development, Electromagnetic Fields, Pulsed Radiofrequency Radiation, and Epigenetics: How Wireless Technologies May Affect Childhood Development. 2017, Volume 00, Number 0, Pages 1-8 https://eliant.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/de/pdf/Sage_Burgio_Childhood_2017_Epigenetics.pdf

Taylor, Hugh  Research Compilation on Cell phone Radiation, Behavior and Brain Development https://ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/TaylorPASSession.pdf

Twenge, Jean M.  et al. Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time Clinical Psychological Science 2017 November

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2167702617723376?journalCode=cpxa

Varghese, Rini et al., Rats exposed to 2.45GHz of non-ionizing radiation exhibit behavioral changes within creased brain expression of apoptotic caspase 3, Elsevier, Pathophysiology25 (2018) 19-30 https://www.pathophysiologyjournal.com/article/S0928-4680(17)30052-4/pdf

Wen Y, Alshikho MJ, Herbert MR (2016) Pathway Network Analyses for Autism Reveal Multisystem Involvement, Major Overlaps with Other Diseases and Convergence upon MAPK and Calcium Signaling. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153329. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0153329 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153329

 

Zhang, Jun-Ping et al., Environmental Research and Public Health, Effects of 1.8 GHz Radiofrequency Fields on the Emotional Behavior and Spatial Memory of Adolescent Mice. November 2017, 14 pages
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5707983/pdf/ijerph-14-01344.pdf