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Anonymous wrote:There are cellphone towers and boosters all over the friggin' city. Bzzzzt. Bzzzzt. So, if you're concerned, move to the hinterlands, but make sure first there's no fracking, drilling, pesticides, heavy metals or farm runoff that might make you sick.

How many are public schools? And why is DCPS renting out its roof space when envronmentally and health conscious localities like Bar Harbor are banning cell towers within 1500 feet of a school??

Bar Harbor? One tiny town in Maine? When I think environmentally and health conscous I think of places like Portland, SF, Davis, Madison, and lots of others. Bar Harbor? Got any more?

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Anonymous wrote:Let's try to keep it to one contentious topic per thread please. This thread is full.

How about a segway back to the original topic? Did Deal give over its roof space to a cellular tower? Won't prospective parents at Hardy wonder why it has to monetize its space, health impact to its students and faculty be damned.

Umm, Deal already has towers all over near it's campus.

Waves travel through the air over much larger distances than a few hundred yards.

There is some evidence -- the robustness of which I cannot assess -- about the effects over very small distances (like inches). There is evidence that radio waves interfere with bees. But there is no robust evidence -- that I know of -- about effects on humans over longer ranges.

*I'm now an economist. Before graduate school, I worked on wireless spectrum opposing the CTIA and NAB. The slander than I'm an industry lobbyist cannot be further from the truth.

Anonymous wrote:Let's try to keep it to one contentious topic per thread please. This thread is full.

How about a segway back to the original topic? Did Deal give over its roof space to a cellular tower? Won't prospective parents at Hardy wonder why it has to monetize its space, health impact to its students and faculty be damned.

Anonymous wrote:There are cellphone towers and boosters all over the friggin' city. Bzzzzt. Bzzzzt. So, if you're concerned, move to the hinterlands, but make sure first there's no fracking, drilling, pesticides, heavy metals or farm runoff that might make you sick.

How many are public schools? And why is DCPS renting out its roof space when envronmentally and health conscious localities like Bar Harbor are banning cell towers within 1500 feet of a school??

Let's try to keep it to one contentious topic per thread please. This thread is full.

There are cellphone towers and boosters all over the friggin' city. Bzzzzt. Bzzzzt. So, if you're concerned, move to the hinterlands, but make sure first there's no fracking, drilling, pesticides, heavy metals or farm runoff that might make you sick.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus. Please provide "research" (not advocacy) substantiating your claims?

What's your background and your industry? I'm curious. It seems, to me, that you have a clear agenda here. Out with it.

Look at the website. What's your background? Wireless indusry lobbyist? Or DCPS bureaucrat who negotiated a cozy deal using public assets with some well-connected tower company? Do you want to subject your kids to the risks of sitting every day 20 feet under a very powerful radio transmitter?

Jesus. Please provide "research" (not advocacy) substantiating your claims?

What's your background and your industry? I'm curious. It seems, to me, that you have a clear agenda here. Out with it.

Anonymous wrote:According to this site, "Children’s bodies absorb more electromagnetic fields than adults. Some children experience headaches, nausea, fatigue, skin rashes, dizziness, and brain fog from being near cell towers. http://centerforsaferwireless.us/Cell-Phone-Towers-and-Antennas-on-School-Property60.php While some school districts see cell phone towers on school grounds (typically on a remote light tower on an athletic field) as a ready source of cash,, a number of cities and towns have restricted the construction of cell towers in close proximity to schools because of health concerns for children. Bar Harbor, Maine for example enacted an ordinance that prohibits any cell tower within 1500 feet of a school or a day care center. Considering this, what is Hardy doing with a cell tower in the middle of the school roof??

Which other DCPS schools have put cell tower structures on the schools? It's pretty upsetting that a powerful source of radiation would be sited without public discussion of the health impact of kids who study and adults who work at the school. The Hardy antenna structure is located right in the center of the school.

Anonymous wrote:The Eaton kids have the right to attend Deal for the next few years and ALL of them are taking the chance to go to Deal. I do not know a single Eaton parent who is planning to send a child to Hardy next year. Some of the parents of younger children are looking into it given that it will be the feeder school in a couple years.

This is why DCPS is making it compulsory.

According to this site, "Children’s bodies absorb more electromagnetic fields than adults. Some children experience headaches, nausea, fatigue, skin rashes, dizziness, and brain fog from being near cell towers. http://centerforsaferwireless.us/Cell-Phone-Towers-and-Antennas-on-School-Property60.php While some school districts see cell phone towers on school grounds (typically on a remote light tower on an athletic field) as a ready source of cash,, a number of cities and towns have restricted the construction of cell towers in close proximity to schools because of health concerns for children. Bar Harbor, Maine for example enacted an ordinance that prohibits any cell tower within 1500 feet of a school or a day care center. Considering this, what is Hardy doing with a cell tower in the middle of the school roof??

A slightly different question that maybe someone can answer: What's with the large cell phone tower on top of Hardy MS? Research suggests that there is some health impact in living/working close to a cell phone tower, although there is some dispute around the extent of the impact. Still, it's shocking that DCPS would agree to host a cell phone tower smack dab on top of a school. Research does show that adolescent brains are still very much developing and more susceptible to environmental impacts, which is why it's a little mind boggling that a cell phone tower would be erected in their midst. Does anyone have the background? What consultations were there with the school community, comments received, before the school agreed to its installation? It would be disturbing if someone at DCPS has decided to monetize its property by fast-tracking cell phone sites for private providers, outside a more rigorous public vetting process.

I hope Hardy becomes a good option for both OOB and IB families. I've been following this thread to learn more about Hardy for my DC but only as a back up option b/c we are in a DCI feeder. Just learned that DCI is a "paperless" school and kids spend most, if not all, of the day learning on Chrome Books. I haven't been to the open house and we have a few years; however, if this is true, I am more and more interested in Hardy.

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Anonymous wrote:The Eaton kids have the right to attend Deal for the next few years and ALL of them are taking the chance to go to Deal. I do not know a single Eaton parent who is planning to send a child to Hardy next year. Some of the parents of younger children are looking into it given that it will be the feeder school in a couple years.

... not if Hardy becomes Marion Barry Middle School.

Then IB enrollment would plummet to like 2 percent.

Anonymous wrote:The Eaton kids have the right to attend Deal for the next few years and ALL of them are taking the chance to go to Deal. I do not know a single Eaton parent who is planning to send a child to Hardy next year. Some of the parents of younger children are looking into it given that it will be the feeder school in a couple years.

... not if Hardy becomes Marion Barry Middle School.