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The U.K.'s Professional Teachers Association is at it again. The teachers started off mildly enough, calling for an investigation into the health risks of Wi-Fi networks. But now, despite not receiving any confirmation to their fears, they've gone ahead and called for the technology to be banned anyway.The association has called U.K. children "guinea pigs" and believes that Wi-Fi waves impact the concentration of students, Given that by next year half of all calls in the U.K. will be made by mobile phones, which rely on much more powerful radio transmissions than Wi-Fi, we think the Professional Teachers Association may be barking up the wrong proverbial tree.
Also guilty of rotting the kids' brains: YouTube. Because the site and other video hosting sites like it host videos of students attacking each other and even teachers, the P.T.A. wants them banned too.
Banning Wi-Fi from schools seems needless and rather barbaric to us. And though we don't really believe in the banning of anything, except save maybe Rosie O'Donnell (...from everything), is there really a need for YouTube access at school anyway? Tell us what you think.
From Newsvine and The Register
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsnicolette steproAug 5th 2007 10:42PM
ummm, how? a ban at school is one thing- that's like work. how are they going to stop it at home, and if they have no intention of doing that- then is this really even a story?
jasonAug 3rd 2007 9:53PM
These are teachers? They sound like radical nuts. Banning WIFI--what a joke. Sad to think that they are responssible for nurturing young minds. Pathetic.
animadvert4Aug 4th 2007 12:08AM
Sounds to me more like these teachers somehow came to the rather novel conclusion that maybe schools are supposed to educate their students instead of allowing them to surf the net during class time. Sort of a novel idea.
save video from youtubeAug 5th 2007 3:21PM
I think it is impossible to ban... people will try another way to watch youtube video i.e. download it and then save it on notebook and play.