For several months now I have been patiently waiting for permission to film and record the microwave radiation level readings in the wireless classrooms at my children’s school Acacia Elementary, which was voted the number one elementary school in The O.C. by the O.C. Ragister (yes the Ragister). Well they won’t let me in to do my own readings just yet. I was told that it would be disruptive to the learning process. You know, I believe that they really weren’t kidding when the experts over at Executive Environmental got the cushy gig from the District to go in and tell us what we have all been waiting to hear. Could it have been a hack job designed to turn out what the FSD wanted to hear?
I believe that they were undergoing on the job training on the taxpayer dime when they found EMF readings that could only be found on the inside of a Faraday cage or down and out in the Okefenokee swamp. Hey gang, get a load of this April fools joke on the Fourth of July. The FSD is way more than a day late and a dollar short on this one. I don’t know about you all but I want my money back.
ACACIA’S READINGS ACTUALLY WERE REPORTED BY EXECUTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL TO BE EVEN LOWER THAN 0.01. PEAK AVERAGES WERE REPORTED TO BE IN THE RANGE OF 0.001 MICRO WATT PER SQUARE CENTIMETER AND AVERAGES WERE REPORTED TO BE IN THE 0.0000001-0.000007 RANGE-THERE IS NO WAY THEY WOULD EVEN SHOW UP ON THIS GRAPH AT THOSE LEVELS.
#1 by disbelief on July 3, 2013 - 7:03 pm
Are the Acacia elementary numbers a joke?
#2 by Irate parent on July 5, 2013 - 9:10 am
Dr. Pletka,
It appears that from what I perceive to be multiple factual errors in your press release that you have spent little to no time researching this issue. You state to the public that the safety of the students is of your highest priority, however it appears that your inability to grasp even the most basic facts shows otherwise.
You stated that the LAUSD District Precautionary Threshold Level is the same as FCC guidelines. Actually the FCC allows for public exposure levels of 1,000 uW/cm2 which is designed to protect against ACUTE BURNING and AND TOTALLY DISREGARDS NON THERMAL EFFECTS, when the LAUSD Precautionary Threshold Level is set at: 0.1 uW/cm2. This is a ridiculous assertion that I believe to be designed to confuse the unsuspecting parents of The FSD. Shame on you.
The FCC and LAUSD Threshold Levels are 10,000 times apart.
FCC: 1,000 uW/cm2
LAUSD: 0.1 uW/cm2
Given that this health and safety issue was placed before you months ago, it is unbelievable and unconscionable that you don’t even have a grasp of these basic facts.
According to the Fullerton Executive Cabinet Salary Schedule, you are paid $200,000 (plus benefits, pension, etc) for only 224 days of public service per year.
http://fsd.k12.ca.us/personnel/certificated/salary_schedules/2012-2013CabSalarySchedule.pdf
That is a substantial salary and with it comes substantial responsibility, the most basic of which is to ensure the health and safety of our children while they are at school.
Given the depth of evidence placed before, including piles of peer reviewed studies and expert testimonies from many top scientific and medical authorities, you have had a personal responsibility to conduct a thorough investigation of this health and safety issue. In my opinion it appears to be clear that you have done no such thing.
Dr. Pletka, what you fail to understand, on a most basic level, is that there is an enormous and compelling body of scientific literature reporting biological and health effects from RF microwave radiation at levels found in a WiFi classroom environment. Rather than to ignore this science, it is your responsibility to understand what levels are and are not safe.
The scientific record currently reports biological effects at 0.003 uW/cm2, which is much lower than radiation levels present in a WiFi classroom. I believe that due to what I perceive is your authoritative arrogance, you issued in your public statement a false assurance that exposure levels within the school are safe, when in fact the science shows otherwise.
Dr. Pletka, it appears that in my opinion you have mislead parents about the safety of their children, you have refused to properly investigate this issue, you have hired an unqualified firm that took slipshod measurements, and then you issued what appears to be a false assurance of safety to the community. In my opinion, you do not deserve the chair that you sit on.
I can guarantee that your salary, no matter how cushy of a lifestyle that it affords you, is in no way worth the consequences that you face when parents realize what you have done.
#3 by Joe Imbriano on July 8, 2013 - 9:28 pm
The health and safety of our children is nothing to take lightly. I appreciate you articulating your thoughts and opinion in such a concise manner. I believe that your sentiments will continue to be shared by many as we peel away the layers of what I believe to be intentional obfuscation by the FSD. We will end the ruse, and get what we believe to be the facts on this issue out of the laps of the administrators where they have been ignored and into the hands of the parents where they belong.Thank you for contacting me and I look forward to working together with you.
#4 by Anonymous on July 9, 2013 - 7:12 pm
Mr. Imbriano, I really cannot believe what is going on here in our city, specifically in our schools. This is absolutely unbelievable. I watched the council meeting feed today and I really wanted to tell you to know that you are doing the right thing and this site is great. What were you talking about with Jan Flory?
Someone like you is what this community needs-someone who stands up for what is right regardless of what anyone thinks. Far too many of our so called leaders are really nothing more than cowardly, self serving bobbleheads. I say give ’em hell. The school district officials and the board ignoring you are looking more and more like they deserve it.
#5 by Joe Imbriano on August 22, 2013 - 10:46 pm
If I were you I would be too. Now you understand the issue. I believe the truth lies in our court. The burden of proof falls on the ones who seek to impose this technology on the unsuspecting public.
#6 by A.L. on August 22, 2013 - 10:29 pm
I am literally livid with what I am reading here. I just listened to my daughter’s teacher over at Beechwood yesterday talk about how safe all this stuff is and the report. Someone is lying to all of us. It is either you or the school.
#7 by amateur night on July 11, 2013 - 7:41 pm
Go easy on these cats man. They gotta practice on someone. The classroom was empty so no one got hurt. They got their dough and Pletka and Craven got the magic numbers that they wanted. Now they can take this show on the road and look like the Ringling Brothers. Tickets anyone?
#8 by Anonymous on August 23, 2013 - 12:34 pm
My guess would be that it is really neither. Perhaps it is result of the merely misinformed at the helm and all the way up the chain.
#9 by Jamie on July 3, 2013 - 8:15 pm
It must be very difficult to be Dr. Pletka right now. Apparently, he won’t look at anything that interferes with his technology plan, even if it is at the expense of the children’s health. He won’t look at the mountain of reports from experts that say not to have wireless classrooms. Because he won’t look at anything, he can’t address any of the parents or constituents on their concerns. He holds fast to this wrong path for the children. Now, he asserts that everything is fine at Acacia school based on preposterous numbers from a report he ordered with the taxpayer’s money.
It must be difficult to hold fast to the wrong path. It must be difficult to be Dr. Pletka.
#10 by cringing? on July 3, 2013 - 9:17 pm
In regard to the chart, anyone cringing out there?
#11 by JBeck on July 4, 2013 - 11:12 am
Just looking at this chart, it is obvious that the Acacia numbers are ridiculous.
#12 by amateur night on July 4, 2013 - 11:56 am
No the numbers are correct, they were just taken from an airplane 25,000 feet above the school
#13 by Joe Imbriano on July 4, 2013 - 6:05 pm
I am deeply disturbed by this report, the fact that I have not been allowed access to have my crew go in and do our own RF survey, the fact that no one in the entire FSD has addressed the well documented scientific evidence that I have presented, no one in the FSD, or the County Dept of Ed, has addressed the utter ridiculousness of the FCC guidelines which are only designed to protect from acute burning, and that we have someone in charge of 15,000 students who everyone calls Dr. making a blanket statement that all of this is “totally safe” when I believe that it is obvious that he has not even done his homework on this issue that has been glaring him in the face for four months. We deserve better. Our children are owed his due diligence. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SAFETY FIRST?
#14 by jgarrison on July 5, 2013 - 3:37 pm
You should be deeply disturbed, from all the evidence it looks like superintendent and school board do not have a clue as to what they are doing. That is frightening when you consider they have responsibility for thousands of children.
#15 by JBeck on July 5, 2013 - 10:19 am
While FSD is busy sending out outrageous press releases to push their WiFi agenda:
Switzerland: Teachers Vote to Keep Wi-Fi Out of School
http://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.ca/2013/07/switzerland-teachers-vote-to-keep-wi-fi.html
#16 by sayitlikeitis on July 7, 2013 - 9:34 pm
Anyone hear from FSD, explaining their ridiculous report?
#17 by Joe Imbriano on July 7, 2013 - 10:03 pm
The Fullerton School District has posted some technology resources on their website.
http://fsd.k12.ca.us/parent_resources/index.html
Looks like they are gonna see if anyone else questions the results of the emissions report which in my opinion are blatantly obvious to the trained eye. In my opinion, I can’t tell if this was a dirty trick or they just had no idea what they were doing. I want to believe the latter but anything is possible when an agenda this big is involved. We must continue to educate all involved.
#18 by JBeck on July 8, 2013 - 7:57 pm
So there is really no “news” here. They are saying nothing new and it is all disingenuous because the FCC guidelines are 17 years old!!!! Is operating under 17 year old guidelines supposed to make the parents feel better?
They are saying nothing new because they are holding up erroneous data gathered from an incompetent environmental firm. Is the chart up above, which is obviously and ridiculously wrong, supposed to make parents feel better? Is FSD that lacking in common sense? Does it really seem plausible to FSD that those numbers could actually be accurate?
Is expressing the same old platitudes about caring about our children and, all the while, refusing to look at what all the experts are saying supposed to make parents feel better?
So, the latest information FSD put out is no “news”, but a bunch of baloney and now it is in writing.
#19 by sayitlikeitis on July 8, 2013 - 7:40 am
Looks like they are sticking to their ridiculous numbers.
#20 by acacia parent on August 13, 2013 - 4:32 pm
Mr. Imbriano, have you heard back from the firm that did the measurements? Did they admit to you that they made a mistake?
#21 by Joe Imbriano on August 13, 2013 - 10:25 pm
No and as a matter of fact they have ignored all of my emails. I believe that they had no idea what they were doing with that rented equipment. They will not respond to me.
In my opinion that report was a joke.
#22 by Ray on July 8, 2013 - 9:27 am
They are moving full speed ahead with a multi-million dollar technology plan that has been in the works for some time.
It is clear from their behavior that they are so committed to this project that they won’t take their foot off the gas pedal, despite warnings from scientific and medical experts.
The only thing that is going to stop them is a mob of educated and irate parents, people willing to take a stand for the health and safety of children.
“The world is not a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who won’t do anything about it.”
– Albert Einstein
#23 by Mr. Pletka? on July 9, 2013 - 7:10 am
“The people who would do this to children, to all of us, have no souls. I have looked into their eyes and seen that”
#24 by Joe Imbriano on July 10, 2013 - 12:08 am
Here is another wonderful aspect to these folks trying to reinvent the wheel: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/03/13/lawsuit-charges-ed-department-with-violating-student-privacy-rights/
#25 by Anonymous on July 11, 2013 - 6:49 pm
the common core should be next on the radar Joe
#26 by Joe Imbriano on July 13, 2013 - 11:26 pm
we have tentacles
http://www.endthecommoncore.com
#27 by acacia parent on August 13, 2013 - 4:21 pm
It looks as if the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades at Acacia will be using Ipads. I was under the impression that only the 5th and 6th grades would be using them this year.
#28 by amateur night on August 13, 2013 - 7:56 pm
Who gets the best seats in the house right under the good old Cisco access points? please do tell.
#29 by Veritas on August 23, 2013 - 9:16 am
“No authority has power to impose error, and, if it resists the truth, the truth must be upheld until it is admitted.” Lord Acton.