{"id":7403,"date":"2024-05-21T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2024-05-21T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:58:12","slug":"its-insane-big-telecom-pushes-bad-cell-tower-deals-on-literally-hundreds-of-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/its-insane-big-telecom-pushes-bad-cell-tower-deals-on-literally-hundreds-of-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Insane\u2019: Big Telecom Pushes Bad Cell Tower Deals on \u2018Literally Hundreds\u2019 of Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There have been many reports of people living near 5G towers and the pulse modulated<\/a> high power wide spectrum signals inducing severe microwave syndrome. So you have to assume they are purposely targeting children, as if you’ll notice up to now they pick high points for cellular installations for maximum coverage of an area. Originally they were talking about putting small cellular 200 watt installations throughout neighborhoods, and there was a story of Mel Gibson and his neighbors<\/a> fighting these types of installations in Malibu. And watch for this part of the article below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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T-Mobile refused.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/telecom-companies-cell-towers-kids-schools\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Schools looking for money are allowing telecommunications companies to put cell towers on school property, despite the health risks of long-term wireless radiation exposure. School boards often don\u2019t tell parents until after the deal is signed.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This is the first in a series on how the wireless industry is targeting schools for wireless infrastructure installation. Part 1 covers the recent surge and why parents are fighting back.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telecommunications companies are targeting school properties as prime locations for installing cell towers, antennas and other wireless infrastructure \u2014 and many schools are taking the bait, said attorney Robert Berg<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berg represents parents in multiple lawsuits challenging proposals for cell towers<\/a> or wireless antenna placements at their kids\u2019 schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told The Defender<\/a> that \u201cliterally hundreds\u201d of U.S. school boards have signed long-term leases with telecom companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe school board members think it\u2019s easy money,\u201d Berg said. The school leaders rent out bits of school property to the wireless companies \u2014 such as a small site next to an athletic field or space on the school roof \u2014 for a monthly fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many times school leaders have \u201cno idea what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey lock themselves into bad contracts that can last for decades, at below market rate terms,\u201d Berg said. \u201cMeanwhile, the cell towers are irradiating all the kids, the staff and the teachers the entire school day, along with the surrounding neighbors 24\/7.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents frequently don\u2019t learn of the deal until after it\u2019s been signed \u2014 and then it\u2019s too late, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Berg\u2019s cases involves what he called \u201ca nightmare scenario\u201d in Wyandotte, Michigan<\/a>, where the school board, after literally 48 seconds of discussion, approved a contract with T-Mobile to pay the district $1,000 a month to operate a \u201cmassive array\u201d of wireless antennas on the chimney atop Washington Elementary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents didn\u2019t find out until the antennas were being installed. They protested, but the school board and superintendent insisted the contract would not be broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parent dissatisfaction grew so great that the superintendent was forced to resign. The new superintendent asked T-Mobile to move the antennas to a district site \u2014 and the superintendent offered to build a taller cell tower for T-Mobile at the district\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T-Mobile refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several parents sued to prevent T-Mobile from activating the antennas<\/a>. The parents initially succeeded in court, but then the court dismissed their suit and allowed T-Mobile to turn on the antennas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe parents have appealed the decision,\u201d Berg said, \u201cbut in the meantime, parents of about 20% of the pre-antenna student population have pulled their kids from the school, many transferring them to other schools or districts, and some selling their homes and moving from the city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny DeMarco, co-founder and communications director for Virginians for Safe Technology<\/a>, told The Defender she \u201caccidentally\u201d discovered that her kids\u2019 private school<\/a> had been sited for a cell tower. \u201cThey never disclosed this to the parents who paid tuition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo I ended up making flyers,\u201d she said. \u201cMy husband and I stood in the parking lot lines and handed out the flyers\u201d informing parents of the school\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enough parents found out about the proposed cell tower, that school leaders were \u201cforced to address it,\u201d DeMarco said. Although the school administrator evaded DeMarco\u2019s attempts to determine if and when a contract was signed, the tower hasn\u2019t gone up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now DeMarco is leading efforts to stop a cell tower slated to be built<\/a> at a local public high school and adjacent to a local public elementary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wireless company denies health risks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milestone Towers<\/a>, the wireless developer who wants to build the tower near the Virginia schools on March 14 told the Fauquier County School Board<\/a> that it had developed \u201cover 100 towers on public school properties over 20+ years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company promised board members the new tower would bring in $11,520 in annual revenue for the school district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company\u2019s presentation failed to mention any research showing negative health effects of wireless radiation<\/a> exposure, DeMarco said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milestone Towers\u2019 one slide on RF safety<\/a> said their towers \u201cmeet or exceed\u201d the U.S. Federal Communication Commission\u2019s (FCC) wireless radiation emission standards. \u201cBut that\u2019s not saying much because the FCC\u2019s standards are decades old<\/a> and don\u2019t take long-term exposure<\/a> into account,\u201d DeMarco said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeMarco said Milestone Tower, a major cell tower developer in her state, routinely denies health risks in its public presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She shared a clip of the company\u2019s founder and president, Len Forkus<\/a>, telling a 5th grader<\/a> \u2014 who voiced concerns that she may one day get cancer if his company put a cell tower on her school \u2014 that there is no research linking cell tower radiation to cancer or other health problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a lie,\u201d DeMarco said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Environmental Health Trust<\/a>, a nonprofit scientific research and education group focused on the effects of wireless radiation, compiled many independent peer-reviewed studies showing serious harm to humans from exposure<\/a> to wireless radiation, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n